Below are articles I've found about the history and evolution of craft beers in the United States. I went ahead and highlighted some of the key quotes from each article so that you can understand the basics!
“The Brewers Association reported
mid-year 2013 growth of 15 percent in dollar sales and 13 percent in volume for
craft beer. If these trends hold up, it will mark the fourth-straight year of
double-digit growth.”
“There are breweries opening
somewhere in America every day, and to me that's good," he said.
"Competition makes you strive to improve everything you do and to innovate
and push the envelope to make better beer. I think that's a great thing.”
“This generation tends to seek
out ways of personal expression and creativity,” he said, “and, people are
looking to do things more locally in terms of beer, and you can’t get any more
local than brewing at home.”
“Nanobrewing
on this scale is just one step up from homebrewing.”
“There is a
craft beer movement afoot, one that cultivates a culture of independence and —
at least for now — a spirit of bearded idealism.”
“Today, there are more breweries in
the United States than at any point in the country's history. And this year,
more than 1,600 are in the planning stages.”
“Through the first half of this year,
American craft brewers accounted for about 6 percent of the beer produced in
the United States, according to a recent report by the Brewers Association, a
not-for-profit organization representing much of the U.S. beer industry.”
“Currently, more than 2,500 breweries
are operating in the U.S., the most since 2,011 were recorded in 1887. All but
about 100 of those are craft brewers.”
“The number of breweries hit a low
point — fewer than 100 — in 1980 before seeing a steady rise, with a sharp
increase from 1990 to 2000 when more than 1,000 breweries were operating.”
“The craft industry is a unique
collection of entrepreneurs who are competing but embrace a collective effort.”
-Photo showing history and beginning of microbrewery’s
“Up until the early-1980s the popular image of beer in America
was simply that of a mass-produced commodity with little or no character,
tradition or culture worth mentioning.”
“The 1980s marked the decade of the microbrewing pioneers. In a
time when industry experts flat out refused to recognize their existence as
anything serious, the pioneering companies emerged with their passion and a
vision, serving their local communities a taste of full flavored beer and old
world European traditions; all with what was to become a uniquely American
character.”
“The number of craft brewers has gone from 8 in 1980 to 537 in
1994 to over 2300 in 2012.”
-Video about small brewerys
“From those humble beginnings, small California
breweries continued to open, first concentrated in the north and then spreading
throughout the state. Today there are over 400 breweries in the state.”
“The Brewers Association,
the main trade group for U.S. beer-makers, announced June 20 that the number of
American breweries had surpassed 2,500, more than at any time since at least
the 1880s and more than in any other nation.”
-See video at the bottom which explains what a Craft Brewery is.
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