![]() The Brewers Association released their annual rankings of the “Top 50 Producing US Craft Brewing Companies” yesterday along with optimistic statistics about the “small and independent” sector in general. And new breweries may be headed to Livermore and Foster City soon.And Happily, the Other 9,068 Breweries Are Doing Pretty Much OK, Too For now, you can follow their journey on Instagram San Francisco, Olfactory Brewing is moving into Triple Voodoo’s old digs and hopes to be up and running later this year. Meanwhile, the two have been making beer at other breweries - including a Silicon Valley collaboration beer for the 2022 San Francisco Beer Week - to support their project. Brewing with Brothas founders Denzel Jackson and Bookie Tinsley are hoping to open the first brewery in East Palo Alto, their home town. But as I’ve discovered during my monthly brewery day trip series, many breweries-in-planning decided they had nothing to lose by moving forward - and the results have been promising.īrewery openings should continue through 2022, and I’ll be keeping an eye on several. You might think that opening a brewery during a pandemic might not be the best idea. While the number of brewery openings has slowed since its 2018 peak, considerably more new breweries opened (646) than closed (178) in 2021. There’s more good news at the individual brewery level, too. Closely behind is Firestone Walker and Trumer, although both are part of larger businesses owning multiple breweries Firestone Walker is owned by Duvel Moortgat USA (No. (California breweries also made a strong showing on the “all breweries” list, with 10 among the top 50.)Ĭalifornia’s biggest craft brewery is Sierra Nevada Brewing of Chico, which took the No. brewing, with 10 craft breweries in the top 50 and four in the top 10. Clearly, they were wrong - and we have 9,000 American breweries to prove it.Ĭalifornia continues to play a dominant role in U.S. I’ve been watching the world of beer long enough to remember when 10 percent felt impossible, and business analysts kept insisting craft beer was just a fad. But craft beer now accounts for just over 13 percent of the total beer market, which is impressive. That’s reason to celebrate, even though 2020’s precipitous drop - 10 percent - means we have not quite caught up to pre-pandemic levels. Overall, craft beer sales grew 8 percent from 2020 to 2021. But the newest report, which covers 2021, is particularly important because it’s an indicator of which breweries are successfully recovering from the pandemic. Watching the list year after year gives you a good idea of who’s doing well, who’s growing and who’s slipping. So where are we now and where do we go from here? Hold on to your hats: There is good news ahead.Įach year, the Brewers Association, a trade organization that represents small, independent breweries throughout the U.S., compiles its list of the top 50 craft brewers and a separate list of the top 50 breweries, a category that includes all American breweries. The lockdowns of 2020 brought a historic drop in beer sales, as restaurants, bars and taprooms closed their doors, and breweries had to find new ways to sell their beer. It’s no secret that the pandemic era has been hard on breweries.
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