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Now (Official): 2,000+ Breweries. America Is Thirsty.

Congrats thirsty people of America.  The official brewery count in the United States has past 2,000 breweries.  Make that 2, 051.  The Brewers Association came home from the Craft Brewer’s Conference in San Diego and started some bean counting.  The number of craft breweries stands exactly at 2,000.  Non-craft (large breweries) 51.  That’s brick and mortar.  It doesn’t count contract or other forms of operation.

Paul Gatza (of BA) expands on the craft brewery timeline:

1988 – 100

1994 – 500

1996 – 1,000

1999 – 1,500

2008 – 1,500 (there was a dip)

2012  – 2,000

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