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Learn about craft brewery trends, including beer styles, packaging, brewery business models and market segments, demographics, and more from the craft brewing industry’s top economist, Dr. Bart Watson.
Happy October everyone! The end of Oktoberfest means it’s time for my favorite blog post of you year: analyzing the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) winners! Frequent readers of the Insights and Analysis section (you three know who you are), …Read More
One of the most common data requests from members concerns the demographics of craft beer drinkers (note to members: check out the recent Nielsen Power Hours for last of demographic data). For many breweries, however, they should also be asking …Read More
If you tuned into last week’s Power Hour, you may have heard the team from Nielsen share some of the data from our Craft Insights Panel (CIP) on why people visit breweries. You may have also seen the intriguing findings …Read More
The annual mid-year growth estimate is out, and at first glance it may seem like the industry headwinds are increasing, as small and independent brewers continue to see growth decelerate. That said, I think there are some good signs of …Read More
Before we turn to the mid-year 2017 growth release at the end of the month, it’s worth taking one last look at 2016. To do so, I’m going to use one of the richest state data sets: California. Now, if …Read More
The IRI Group has recently reworked their beer styles data and the results provide new insights into the changing nature of craft brewing over time. Their data can now be broken into approximately 100 styles, of which 89 could be …Read More
Does a tasting room help you grow your brand in distribution? In 2016, 9.4% of sales from small and independent brewers occurred at the brewery—up from 7% in 2015. That increasing percentage may cause some concerns from distributor partners, but …Read More
Much has been written about the rise of “own-premise” (i.e., at the brewery sales) over the past year. As seen from the TTB premises use number, own-premise sales have exploded in recent quarters. So how large have these sales gotten, …Read More
With the annual release of our growth numbers, I thought it would be helpful to lay out as clearly as possible what the numbers represent and how our various topline statistics are calculated. If you’re interested in the larger Beer …Read More
One of the most frequent data requests I’ve been getting recently relates to packaging. As with everything in craft, packaging is an area where change is the constant, so older analyses quickly go out of date. Packaging is also an area where …Read More
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