American craft beer is having its moment, and nowhere is that more evident than at the annual Craft Brewers Conference in Denver, Colorado, where more than 9,000 brewing industry professionals from across the globe are convening this week.
“We are all living in the greatest age of beer in the history of the world,” said Gary Fish, Deschutes Brewery founder and Chair of the Board of Directors of the Brewers Association at the conference’s Wednesday morning general session.
"At any given time, there may have been more breweries; at any given time there may have been more beer produced, but at no time has the number of breweries coupled with so much innovation and such an inspired environment of consumer and brewer to make up what is certainly the greatest age of beer the world has ever seen—and its epicenter is American craft beer,“ said Fish.