Sierra Nevada building a second brewery in Asheville (500k bbls) ... New Belgium building a second brewery just down the road from them (600k bbls) ... Lauganitas building a second brewery in Chicago (600k bbls) ... Terrapin selling equity to Tenth and Blake, the Blue Moon division of MillerCoors, and expanding to 100k bbls ... Sweetwater expanding to 500k bbls this year ... over 900 breweries-in-planning, hoping to open this year ... Savor in DC selling out in about 2 minutes this year, at $120 a ticket ... GABF is probably already sold out.
So with just those existing breweries I mentioned, about 2.3 million barrels of capacity added ... and that was not a complete list by far. By comparison, Boston Beer (Sam Adams) sold 2.259 million bbls in 2010. So in a few years, the increase in capacity from just the brewers I listed will be like adding another Sam Adams to the craft beer market. Pretty amazing...
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I suppose this means the craft beer industry is a hit and people are getting away from the big 3 mega-breweries and supporting the middies and the crafters such as yourself. This is good! Cheers.
I worry about the constraint of quality supplies for the beer. All this capacity being added, but are farmers ramping up production? Or what's the rate of new hop/barley/etc. farms opening up? It shall be interesting indeed as the big boys of craft brewing look for quality product and the little guys with no buying power look to alter their recipes because they can't buy what they need.
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