released Tuesday from the Brewers Association, the industry's trade group.
The association has tracked production since the mid-1980s and the previous low point was 0.7% growth in 2000, the association's chief economist Bart Watson told us.The latest numbers leave major questions about the industry's future as craft beer's core demographic gets older and drinks less full-flavored beer and younger consumers move toward new beverages, such as seltzers and canned cocktails.
Seltzers have taken the I’ve market and doubled each year since 2018. That’s where the market has gone.
It's the seltzers
Beer production was flatter than Dylan Mulvaney.
It doesn't help that some of it is crap beer
Too many have been bought by big beer companies and squeezed out the taps on local bars.
Nobody is going to buy pedophile beer.
It's at saturation. That is OK.
I apologize to the industry. But I had to cut back on my purines. I had gout.
Too many craft beer makers and too many people trying to lose weight