Craft Records 4% Volume Growth in 2019

Dear Client: The tallies for 2019 are in from the Brewers Association, and in it we see another year of slow and steady growth for craft. Just like 2018, BA-defined craft “maintained a fairly stable growth rate in 2019 and continued to gain share in the beer market,” said BA chief economist Bart Watson. 26.3 MILLION BARRELS IN 2019. Indeed, craft volume growth continued to chug along at a +4% clip in 2019, having produced 26.3 million barrels, a near