2022 Craft Beer Retail Dollars Up 6%

Dear Client:  2022 total U.S. craft volumes were flat vs. 2021, at 24.3 million barrels of beer (on a comparable data set of brewers). That meant craft’s overall share of beer volumes grew to 13.2%, up very slightly from 13.1%, Brewers Association chief economist Bart Watson said in today's annual craft industry production report.  (That’s as the BA estimates that overall beer market volumes “shrank by 3%” last year.)  However, craft retail dollars value reached almost $28.5 billion, up 6%