Blink:
Back on this day in 1978 President Jimmy Carter signed a bill legalizing home brewing. However states could still set their own limits. The American beer market has definitely
changed since President Carter was in office, especially in the past five
years.
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The Brewers Association defines
American craft breweries as those independently owned operations (note:
they can’t have greater than 25% investment by a non-craft beer company) producing
less than 6 million barrels a year. The
Census Bureau released in July indicated that the number of U.S. breweries doubled
in the past five years largely due to craft beer. In the past two years alone, on average, 1.2 craft
breweries opened each day, contributing to a total of 15.6 million barrels of
beer last year. According to the Brewers
Association, craft beer now accounts for 7.8% of the U.S. beer market.
Craft beer: I’ll drink to that!
And this mirrors the trend that we've seen in the UK since the 1980s - only we call it Real Ale
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