Brewers Association
Get to know the “Mother Of All Beer Weeks” – American Craft Week with this awesome video by The Brewers Association. American Craft Beer Week 2011 is May 16 – 22, 2011.
The Brewers Association’s Erin Glass has a tough job of keep roll of all the breweries in America. Seems like almost daily a brewery opens, closes, or is planned. It was announced over the weekend that breweries in the United States has surpassed 1,700. That’s a lot of beer. If each one of those breweries releases just 5 beers, you are already a beer beer behind. So get drinking. From Brewersassociation.org
The Brewers Association’s Membership Coordinator and Brewery Detective Erin Glass keeps an eye on brewery openings, closings, transitions and breweries in planning. With so much interest in craft brewing today, there is a lot more detective work and a large number of calls and emails to breweries in planning, those on the cusp and those recently opened.
Many startups join the Brewers Association during the planning phase to access our resources and the expertise of the network and remain members after becoming operational. U.S. operational brewery membership is now at 1,218. Total brewery membership, when international breweries, contract brewing companies and breweries in planning are added, is 1,619.