Beer manufacturing quantity is down in line with the Brewers Associations’s annual beer manufacturing report for 2024.
The Brewers Affiliation, the commerce affiliation representing America’s small and impartial craft brewers has launched the annual manufacturing numbers for the USA. In brief, beer manufacturing is down.
Manufacturing.
Craft brewers (learn the footnote beneath on the present craft brewer definition) throughout the U.S. produced 23.1 million barrels or (or 716.1 million gallons) of beer in 2024. That’s a down 4% from the 2023 manufacturing quantity. The general beer market (which incorporates non-craft designated breweries like AB InBev and Coors) fell 1.2% total.
Craft market share stayed flat at 13.3%
The ten,000 brewery mark continues to be far-off.
10,000 working breweries in the USA is milestone many within the beer business wished to see crossed, one way or the other proving the nation’s love affair with beer- a objective that’s slipping away from us.
As of right now, the U.S. has 9,612 breweries – together with 1,934 microbreweries, 3,389 brewpubs, 3,695 taproom breweries, and 266 regional craft breweries.
2024 was the primary 12 months since 2005 (1,447 breweries) the place the general variety of working craft breweries declined nationwide. The entire variety of breweries within the U.S. dropped to 9,680, down from 9,747 in 2023.
434 breweries opened, 501 closed.
The 2024 Prime 50 Highlights:
Tilray has jumped to #3, particularly after buying manufacturers like Shock Prime, Terrapin Beer, and Blue Level. are pushed by SweetWater, Alpine and Inexperienced Flash as effectively.
Stone Brewing, Bell’s Brewery, and Founder’s Brewing exit after acquisitions.
Additions:
- Barrel One Collective shaped in 2024 from the merger of Mass. Bay Brewing Firm and Finestkind Brewing LLC
- Craft ‘Ohana (Maui/Fashionable Occasions) : Displays Fashionable Occasions’ acquisition by Maui Brewing.
- Hendler Household Brewing Firm, rising in 2024 because the mum or dad firm Jack’s Abby Craft Lagers (began in 2011), rising with acquisitions of Wormtown Brewery (April 2024) and Night time Shift Brewing (October 2024). Collectively Massachusetts largest craft beer producer, projecting 100,000 barrels in 2025.
- Zero Gravity Craft Brewery- 1st look at #47, Burlington, Vermont.
- New Path Brewing Co., based mostly in Williamsport, Pennsylvania, at #46.
- Monster Brewing Co. is the brand new title of former CANarchy Craft Brewery Collective, at #9. The title change to Monster Brewing Co. occurred in January 2024, after Monster Beverage Company introduced that CANarchy would function below the brand new title.
