However, in plain 2019, it seems it did.<\/p>\n
Retail sales of craft beer rose 7% in 2018 while the craft-beer market rose its net-worth to 26 billion dollars, as beer accounts\u00a0for about 85% of the total volume of alcoholic beverages sold each year in the U.S., making it the\u00a0country’s\u00a0most popular alcoholic beverage.<\/p>\n
According to USA Today<\/a>, that sales surge helped craft brewers to 24.2% share of the $114.2 billion U.S. beer market. That’s up from 23.4% last year in a basically flat beer market.<\/p>\n Last year, the total U.S. beer market hit $111 billion, the association estimates.<\/p>\n Craft was not initially considered a threat by the\u00a0bigger breweries,\u00a0but in recent years, many have moved to purchase their smaller, independent competitors, turning\u00a0the craft beer industry towards an unprecedented growth, as the\u00a0Brewers Association<\/a>\u00a0stated that small and independent breweries had a market share of 5% back in 2010, but by 2018, it had increased to 13.2%.<\/p>\n According to Pudding<\/a>, apparently not.<\/p>\n New breweries are opening across the country at an increasing rate. Although the trend has been booming since 2010, it doesn\u2019t appear to be slowing either, with nearly 900 new breweries established just in 2016.<\/p>\n Not all U.S. states are equally excited about beer.<\/p>\n While California has the most new breweries by volume, it\u2019s also the biggest state. When we look at breweries opened per capita, we find out where the real beer nuts are at, and Vermont, Montana, and Wyoming are the states with the highest average per capita openings in the last 20 years.<\/p>\n USA beer ratings, by Beverage Trade Network, presented its\u00a0pick of the key trends<\/a> right now in American craft beer.<\/p>\nAre we at peak beer hype?<\/h2>\n
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