Bart Says 4,144 Breweries are “Just the Beginning”

Dear Client:Back in September at GABF, the Brewers Association revealed that we had eclipsed 4,000 breweries. Bart Watson, chief economist for the BA, thought we might pass the nation's historical high of 4,131 breweries (from 1873) this year, and now it's official - the United States has never held more breweries than it does today.At the end of November, the U.S. finally topped the nearly 150-year-old record, with a total of 4,144 breweries in the country, per release. "This is