In our inaugural issue of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine® 10 years ago, and again in 2016 and 2018, we plotted graphs like the ones above to parse out the concept of a craft-beer “bubble”—the idea that the number of breweries, at some point, would prove unsustainable and begin to drop.
Here, we’ve refreshed the data, to better visualize how the situation looks today.
Data sources: U.S. Census Bureau, U.S. TTB, Brewers Association, German Brewers Federation, Zythos, ACSA
