2008 Craft brewing statistics are out, and show that craft brewing continues to grow at a pace that outperforms non-craft domestics (i.e. Mass produced beers) and certainly imports (which actually dropped).Vermont topped the list of breweries per capita for 2008 with 19 breweries one brewery for every 32,698 citizens in the state. Lucky Vermont! ;)
Washington state placed a respectable 8th on the breweries per capita list, with 100 breweries in the state (one for every 65K citizens).
Craft Brewing statistics:
- Growth of the craft brewing industry in 2008 was 5.8% by volume and 10.5% by dollars.
- The craft brewing industry produced nearly 8.6 million barrels of craft beer in the U.S. in 2008.
- The fastest growing sector craft brewing sector continues to be microbreweries, showing customer support for local breweries.
- The craft brewing sales share as of December '08 is 4% by volume and 6.3% by dollars.
- Total U.S. craft brewing industry annual dollar volume is $6.3 billion.
(Source beertown.org.)
It appears that, even in tough economic times, people still need a good beer. It also seems that an increasingly larger segment of the population is warming up to craft beers over mass produced American lagers.
Brew on!
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