
Many Challenges Facing Craft Beer
These are turbulent times in the beer industry and, for the craft beer business, there are two very different narratives these days. On one hand, we now have almost 10,000 breweries in America vs. less than 50 in the late 1980s. Conversely, after nearly a decade of double-digit annual growth, U.S. craft beer has grown at a paltry rate of