A flight of 8th Wonder beers. The malt beverage industry contributed $34 billion in economic output to Texas in 2022.While canned cocktails and CBD-infused seltzers may be getting a lot of headlines lately, beer remains the social beverage of choice for consumers in Texas and across the United States.
"We like to say that it's equivalent to 1.6 percent of U.S. GDP," she said Friday. "Beer is that beverage, I think more than anything, that really helps to bring people together." "It starts from that hops farmer, the barley farmer, and goes to, who's providing the keg? Who's working specifically within the brewery?" Kosmal said."When somebody is sitting down and enjoying a beer, either at your kitchen table or at your favorite local bar, so many hands across the country touched that beer in some way."