Rise of Craft Breweries

The Rise of Craft Breweries Craft brewery classifications Small: Annual production cannot exceed 6 million barrels. Independent: Less than 25% can be owned by an alcohol beverage industry professional. Great American Beer Festival Traditional: Malt flagship beverages must make up at least 50% of production. 2013 Pro-Am Winners Gold: Poblano States with the most beer Cigar City Brewing Tampa, FL consumption per capita Wayne Wambles & Jeff Gladish Silver: Charlie's Brown US North Dakota 45.8 New Hamoshire 43.9 New Belgium Brewing Co. Ft. Collins,CO 28.2 Montana 41.0 barels Peter Bouckaert, Grady Hull & Mike Formisano Bronze: Oatmeal Stout Upslope Brewing Co. Boulder, CO Total number of US. craft breweries Bn breweries = 500 craft Alex Violette & Derek Ordway (2,483 as of June 2013) BEER BEER BEER BEER BEER (2,347) O BEER BEER BEER BEER E SuretyBonds.com GUNRANTEED PËRFORWANCE, NATIONWIDE Resources All data as of 2012, unless stated otherwise. BrewersAssociation.org Beerlnstitute.org CreatAmericanBeerfestivalcom (1,970) BEER BEER BEER BEER Total craft breweries by state 158 36 41C 140 29151 83 ( 1933 16/21 151 19 45 102 48 4427841 70 16. 1010 '848 310 22 22 Alaska Montana No.4 Vermont Oregon No. 2 Colorado No. 3 No. 1 No. 5 States with the highest population per craft brewery 2011 2012 2013