Bart Predicts 7% Growth for Craft in 2021, and 5% Jump in 2022

Dear Client:  Back at the Craft Brewers Conference in September, Brewers Association chief economist, Bart Watson, predicted that craft would grow roughly 8% this year. How does that hold up with less than a month to go in 2021? Bart shared on a BA-hosted webinar last week that he’s lowered his estimate “slightly” to 7% growth. Nevertheless, it marks “a strong bounce back in growth” for craft “after a challenging 2020,” he said. GROWTH TO CONTINUE IN 2022. And craft