Texas Craft on Fire

Dear Client: A recent report from the Houston Chronicle outlined some facts the Texas Craft Brewers Guild released recently, sharing that the state's 833,191 barrels of beer last year made for an increase of 17.6%. But if you exclude Shiner's Spoetzel Brewery, a top craft brewer with has plans to go national this year [see CBD 05-02-2014], the residual craft brands saw production rise by 44.3%, to a combined 265,958 barrels. Continuing the exclusion of Spoetzel, last year the Lone