![]() Growth was also harder to achieve for past fast-rising craft breweries. On the flip side, New York’s Saranac Brewery (-2%) and Boston’s Harpoon Brewery (-5%) both declined in 2019. Other top 20 craft breweries growing volumes in 2019 included Atlanta’s SweetWater Brewing (+7%), Wisconsin’s New Glarus Brewing (+2%), Minhas Craft Brewery (+19%), and Fort Collins, Colorado-headquartered Odell Brewing (+5%). Brooklyn Brewery’s 282,000 barrels in 2019 was flat year-over year. The only other top 10 craft breweries to record negative volume growth in 2019 were Shiner maker the Spoetzl Brewery (517,443 barrels) and Stone Brewing (395,000 barrels), which each declined 1%, which amounted to a loss of between 4,000 and 5,000 barrels for each brewery.įirestone Walker accounted for all 10% of Duvel Moortgat USA’s growth, as volumes declined at both Boulevard Brewing (-3%) in Kansas City, Missouri, and Brewery Ommegang (-14%) in Cooperstown, New York.īend, Oregon-headquartered Deschutes Brewery fell out of the top 10 in 2019, as volumes declined 7%, to 2090,932 barrels. Six of the top 10 craft breweries posted volume growth, including the aforementioned Sierra Nevada, New Belgium (+4%, 886,500 barrels), Firestone Walker (+16%, 525,294 barrels), Bell’s Brewery (+5%, 494,081), the Canarchy Craft Brewery Collective (+14%, 479,476 barrels) and Artisanal Brewing Ventures (+2%, 317,688 barrels).Ģ019 will be the final year in which New Belgium will be counted within the craft brewer data set as it no longer meets the BA’s definition after selling to Kirin-owned Lion Little World Beverages. Boston Beer and Dogfish Head completed their merger last July.īoston Beer reported in February that it shipped a total of 5.3 million barrels of its entire portfolio of products in 2019. The BA’s production figure for Boston Beer includes the Samuel Adams brand, but does not include those of its offerings such as Truly Hard Seltzer (the second best-selling hard seltzer on the market) and Twisted Tea, or offerings from Dogfish Head Craft Brewery, which is ranked separately as the 13th largest craft brewery, growing 1%, to 277,727 barrels. Sierra Nevada (+1%) was the only other BA-defined craft brewery producing more than 1 million barrels of beer. Yuengling’s nearly 2.7 million barrels exceeded Boston Beer’s estimated beer production of 1.75 million barrels. Yuengling and Son and Boston Beer Company - both recorded volume declines in 2019. The two largest craft breweries by volume in 2019 - D.G. The growth number has hovered around 4% over the last three years, but continued growth remains uncertain due to the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on the U.S. What Local Brewing's Regan Long told me last month still rings true: "Support small businesses as much as possible."Īlyssa Pereira is an SFGate digital editor.The total craft category, as defined by the BA, held steady at 4% volume growth in 2019, to a total of 26.3 million barrels. Many are offering to-go cans and crowlers - here’s a list - and those that aren’t have created gift card links and crowdfunding campaigns for laid off and furloughed employees. Owners in the meantime are looking to the state and federal governments for assistance, but right now, there’s one thing you can do to help: Order beer from your local brewery, or buy cans from your local bottle shop. “These breweries saw revenue streams disappearing overnight.” “The majority of craft breweries are small businesses that sell all or most of their beer through their brewery and direct to their communities, not through third parties like grocery stores,” Joanne Marino, Director of the Bay Area Brewers Guild said this week. ![]() Overnight thunderstorms, hail rock parts of the Texas Hill Country.Birthplace of Freddy Fender honors legend with Texas State Marker.Former teenage chef Sarah Hernandez announces end of Sarah's Barbacoa.Reports: Mexican music legend Fito Olivares has died.Chevrolet drops prices on Bolt EUV projects 247-mile range on a charge.
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