2014 Shaping Up to be “One of the Best Ever” Years for Craft

Dear Client: In today's Brewers Association-powered Power Hour talk with IRI beverage alcohol insight chief Dan Wandel, a theme emerged: Craft is not just growing, but "aggressively" gaining share. In fact, Dan went so far as to say that 2014 could be one craft's best years yet. Among its big gains: craft's dollar sales in its largest channel, grocery, is up a whopping 20.5% YTD to July 13. Its share of total beer dollar sales is up by more than