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Craft Beer Insights is an advisory business and portal to everything Craft Beer. Our team brings expertise in optimizing operations, elevating branding, energizing merchandising and sourcing funding for craft breweries in all growth stages.

CBI brings real-life experience in hospitality management, beverages and real estate to help teams, financiers and growing concerns take their brew pubs and microbreweries to the next level!

In addition, CBI’s focus is on helping those operations that are facing significant challenges move successfully to implement strategies that yield profitable results.

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Brand New for Breweries in 2023!!

Introducing the Brewery Adventure Tour App

A New App to Drive Traffic to Your Brewery

The Brewery Adventure Tour App (“BAT App”), Helps You Discover and Create Itineraries at Craft Breweries Locally and Across the Country Showing Events, Food Offerings and Music at Each Venue

CBI’s newest innovation simplifies your search for all of your local and over 9,000 breweries nationally, serving the latest craft beers, while leaving more time for hanging out with friends. You can find information on the latest beer launches, festivals, music, food served and special events at all of your favorite breweries! It allows you to create engaging lifestyle experiences whether taking in the local scene or travelling across the country on a “Beercation”.

The BAT App is a geotargeted product, focused on those craft beer lovers that are also road warriors. As soon as the user opens the app, you will see information about the craft breweries in your immediate vicinity and proximity of your desired location, typically within a 25-mile radius.

The BAT App lets you easily plan customized tour itineraries for your squad, identify breweries to meet up and catchup with friends, or to plan a pub crawl, or a simple way to stay in touch via social media and save your favorite breweries for further discovery.

In summary, the BAT App makes creating plans for visiting breweries and connecting with friends over craft beer, an easy and fun experience and provides all of the information you need to know, at over 9,000 breweries nationwide!.

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Brewpubs Avg. Annual Sales in Thousands of Merchandise

The global craft beer market is expected to reach $502.9 billion by 2025—while the craft brewing industry contributed $76.2 billion to the U.S. economy in 2017, including more than 500,000 jobs.

Number of Craft Breweries in the United States

- American Craft Beer Week 2022:
  
  Top Five Most Fascinating Beer Facts
  
  Source: https://www.craftederp.com/american-craft-beer-week-2022-five-most-fascinating-beer-facts
  - Want to Go Full-On Scrooge McDuck in a Pool of Beer? – Well, at this brewery in Austria, you can! Austrian brewer Starkenberger’s Castle features the “world’s only beer-swimming-pools” — seven 13-foot pools of warm beer, each containing around 42,000 pints. Visitors can relax in the pools, hot springs style, immersing themselves in the vitamin and calcium-rich beer said to be good for the skin.
  - The First Brewers Were…Witches? – Well, sort of. If you found yourself in a European market circa 1450 and fancied a pint, you would be looking for a woman in a tall hat, probably stirring a cauldron, possibly with a feline friend nearby. Actually the woman in question would have been known as an alewife. Her pointy hat helped her make herself visible to thirsty customers in the town square and her cauldron was the vessel of choice for transporting her brew.
  - The Bread or the Beer? – Think back to middle school and learning about the Fertile Crescent located in the modern day Middle East. Ancient humans settled here thousands of years ago and engaged in the first instance of purposeful agriculture, the growing of grain. This is known as the Agricultural Revolution and, in every sense, it marks the beginning of civilized culture as we know and define it. This grain was grown primarily and principally for making bread. But, according to Michael Jackson, the author of World Guide to Beer, “there is a perfectly respectable academic theory that civilization began with beer.” Does civilization itself owe its existence to…beer?
- The World’s Most Alcoholic Beer? – Most domestic beers in the US have an alcohol content between 5 and 14% ABV, with craft beers usually being on the stronger side — generally above 8% ABV. But there does exist a beer that rivals most liquors when it comes to alcohol content. The aptly named Snake Venom from Scottish brewery, Brewmeister, packs a quite a wallop at 67.5% ABV!
- You’ve Heard of the Science of Beer, but…the Archaeology of Beer? – In 2019 archeologists and a team of microbiologists embarked on a novel kind of archaeological dig and subsequent experiment. Yeast, which is apparently practically immortal, was recovered from 3,000 year old Sumerian jugs and used to ferment newly brewed beers and meads

What state has the lowest number of bars and restaurants?

Mississippi

(149.9 per 100,000 people)

TRENDS

Preferred Craft Style Varies by Region

Currently, India Pale Ales(IPA’s) are the most popular in the Western and Southern areas. Alternatively, special seasonal brews gain the most attention among craft lovers in the Northeast and Midwest regions.

What state has the highest number of bars and restaurants?

Montana

(257.5 per 100,000 people)

2022 CRAFT BEER FACTS

U.S. BEER INDUSTRY UPDATE

Overall U.S. beer sales volume sales was up 1% in 2021 to 187.6 million barrels
Craft Beer sales volume grew 7.9% to 24.5 million barrels.
A standard barrel is equal to 31 US gallons. Approximately 13.7 cases of 12oz cans and 10.3 cases of 16oz cans are produced from a single barrel of craft beer.
Small and Independent brewers’ share of the U.S. beer market by volume stands at 13.1%.
Retail dollar sales of craft increased 21%, to $26.8 billion, and now account for just under 27% of the $100.2 billion U.S. beer market
The primary reason for the larger dollar sales increase was the shift back in beer volume to bars and restaurants from packaged sales.
Regional brewers produced 65.7% of the 2021 craft volume followed by Microbrewers (18.45), Taprooms (8.1%) and Brewpubs (6.4%)
The state with the most breweries per capita is Vermont, where there are 68 breweriesor 1 brewery per every 140 mi².
The state with the least breweries per capita is Mississippi, where there are 18 breweriesor 1 brewery per every 3,460 mi².
The state with the highest number of breweries is California, where there are a whooping 931 breweries.

79.1 Billion in Revenues contribution to the U.S Economy…a 21.7% increase from 2014 to 2017 21.7% 21.7%

Total Jobs in the Craft Brewery Industry in 2018

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Percent of Californian Population Living Within 10 Miles of a Craft Brewery 91.4% 91.4%

California has the largest number of craft breweries?

Local is Important to Craft Beer Drinkers

Nielsen found that 66% of craft drinkers said they only buy beer sold in their region, while 57% said they only buy beer sold in their town or city. The data trends even higher for weekly craft drinkers, with 71% saying they only buy regional and 62% saying they buy local.

The Taproom is King!

Taprooms and tasting rooms are providing new and creative experiences for craft lovers to engage with their favorite brews. In fact, within the past year, 23% of Millennials have visited a brewpub and 14% have visited a game-based bar.

Consumers are Finding Favorite Brands

75% of consumers said they buy up to three beer brands a month. Meanwhile, the number of “promiscuous consumers” who buy five or more brands a month has declined over the last five years.

A New Challenger

Hard seltzer is taking the US by storm and is converting beer, wine, and vodka drinkers. According to Nielsen, hard-seltzer sales grew by roughly 200% during 2019. That implies an annual growth rate of 66% and a jump in consumption from 14 million cases in 2018 to 72 million cases in 2021.

“OCCUPATION FERMENTATION“

By Curtis Battles

Available on Amazon Today!!!

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Occupation Fermentation: The Secrets to Building A Successful Craft Brewery is the definitive guide for those craft beer enthusiasts aiming to convert their passion into a profitable enterprise. This book provides a practical roadmap for investors, operators, owners and financiers looking to succeed in this rapidly growing beverage segment.

It is based on real-life stories collected from prosperous brewers of all sizes from around the country. This publication provides unique insights into critical components including the beer making process, how to brand your business, the capital required to get rolling and potential funding sources.

Ultimately, this book provides the reader with a very practical “how to manual” on developing a winning long-term strategy for your craft brewing business. So come along for a literary ride that will be both fun and informative. It offers a critical resource in helping expand your brewpub or microbrewery into a regional lifestyle and entertainment juggernaut!