Craft Volume up 16% in First Half

Dear Client: Brewers Association has today reported craft trends for the first half of the year: volume is up 16% through the end of June, to approximately 12.2 million barrels of beer, up from 10.6 million barrels during the first half of 2014. They didn't break out growth contribution by size of brewer, but pretty safe to say that, based on last year's distribution, the smaller to mid-sized regionals (and a few larger, well-known growers, like Lagunitas) as well as