Craft Volume Up 4% in 2018

Dear Client: The Brewers Association released craft's annual report card for 2018 this morning. As BA chief economist, Bart Watson, summed it up, "craft maintained a fairly stable growth rate in 2018 and continued to gain share in the beer market." Indeed, BA-defined brewers grew volume by 4% last year, and produced a total of 25.9 million barrels in 2018, ahead of craft's 25.1 million barrels in 2017  (though that number was originally reported as 25.4 million in last year's