Koch: Craft Beers the Fastest Growing Category

First let's look at the facts. Demonstrating that consumers are continuing to trade up to the craft beer segment, Boston Beer's distributor sales to retail increased approximately 15% in the third quarter, with the first nine month STRs running at 17%. Revs per barrel were up 0.4%. Boston's growth came from the Sam Adams brand family, with Twisted Tea growth slowing.FOURTH QUARTER ESTIMATES. Boston says core shipments for the fourth quarter could be up between 6% and 10% as compared