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Is Craft Beer Jumping the Shark?

Dear Client:Noted craft beer and whiskey writer Lew Bryson fronts a story in the Daily Beast last weekend ominously titled: "Craft Beer's Looming Crisis"Lew provides the usual stats which compare today's craft beer industry to the microbrewer industry of 1996, in which the bubble burst and the industry turned to flat nearly overnight. Here are the facts:-Breweries opening at a rate of three per week, many of them rank amateurs.-An increase of poor quality beer on the shelf-An increase of

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