Craft Still Gaining and Growing in Pac Northwest

Dear Client:Despite the enduring coverage surrounding craft's slowdown, there continue to be sobering stories of growth. Last week we reported, via MillerCoors blog on Pac Northwest trends for one of its Tenth and Blake brands, Hop Valley, that the craft market in Oregon and Washington is depressed. This was based on Nielsen numbers, YTD to Sept. 9, depicting a mere 1% dollar gain and 3.4% volume drop for craft in the two states. But we honed in on more recent