May/June 2023

Industry Review Issue

For the May/June 2023 The New Brewer, we present our annual Industry Review issue, focusing on how each segment of the craft brewing industry fared the previous year. Taprooms drove growth in 2022, up 9% in a flat industry. The pace of change is accelerating in craft beer with increasing numbers of beverage options for adventurous consumers.

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Cover Story

Industry Review Issue

2022 Overview

Change is a constant in beverage alcohol, but the pace and scope of change today seems greater than at almost any point since Prohibition.

Industry Review Issue

Featured Stories

Brewpubs

Brandon Hernández

After countless pivots by restaurateurs and their short-handed workforces, customers are returning, but they are doing so on a new set of terms requiring even more adjustments.

Micros

Gabe Toth

Microbreweries—those that produce fewer than 15,000 barrels annually and sell less than 25% of that production onsite—are shifting focus to their immediate customers.

Taprooms

Stephanie Grant

Taprooms—breweries that sell over 25% of their beer onsite and don't offer significant food services—were up 9% by volume in 2022 over the previous year.

Regionals

Greg Kitsock

The Regionals category underperformed, down 2% in volume, even as craft beer as a whole held its own in a volatile market.

May June 2023 The New Brewer Large + Import

Large Breweries + Imports

David Steinman

Large breweries and importers largely faced one of their tougher years in 2022 as nine of the top 10 suppliers' shipments declined.

A Note From the Editor

Jill Redding, Editor-in-Chief

This issue also includes our usual informative departments, plus brewery-generated news about the craft brewing community in the Brewery Updates and Beer Releases sections; and new products and services from the allied trade in Industry Supplier News. In our back-page interview, we highlight Pat Conway, co-founder of Great Lakes Brewing Co., which is celebrating its 35th anniversary in 2023.

Cheers, and we hope you enjoy this issue of The New Brewer.

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