Craft Sees Worst Ever BPI Trend

Dear Client: “With temporary closures of on-premise establishments, the craft segment plummeted to its lowest ever index recording at 35,” NBWA chief economist Lester Jones wrote in the latest BPI update, for March 2020. For comparison, craft recorded an index of 55 in March 2019; and logged a 51 in the previous month (February 2020).  We typically cover the latest readings from the NBWA’s Beer Purchasers Index in sister publication Beer Business Daily, so allow us to explain it to