Bart: Craft is in Store for “A Good Reset”

Dear Client: The current state of affairs in the three tiers – which sees brewers presenting a more focused approach to innovation, distributors taking and ordering less, and retailers culling shelf space from certain segments (like craft) – bring about a less-than-ideal setting for craft heading into 2023.  But the Brewers Association’s chief economist Bart Watson, a self-professed “positive person by nature,” shared at the Beer Marketer’s Insights Seminar this week that he believes this more “focused, simplified” environment could