Permitted Brewery Count Surpasses 1,000 For Third Straight Year

Dear Client:Despite difficult beer trends, last year the number of TTB-permitted breweries hit another all-time record: 7,190 total U.S. brewery permits as of December 31, NBWA's Beer By the Numbers blog reported. That included 1,110 new permits, down 32 from the year prior. That's the third year we added more than 1,000 breweries to the tally.PER CAPS DOUBLED (AT LEAST) IN ALL BUT FIVE STATES SINCE 2010. It's interesting to consider how much things have changed in the last six