With the news of yet another brewery hitting town, Missoula’s KECI television station called for some insight into the state of breweries in Montana. I happily obliged with an interview appropriately taking place at Draught Works Brewery. You can watch the interview here (which I am unable to embed): http://www.nbcmontana.com/news/2014-could-be-record-year-for-new-montana-breweries/25330948 With Triple Dog Brewing Co.…
Montana is the friendliest state for beer, says the financial publication Motley Fool (though I have a different take on that idea). Nevertheless, here’s one statistic where Montana once again tops the chart: barley production. The American Malting Barley Association released its Prospective Plantings Report this week, noting that U.S. producers intend to seed 3.17…
Friday evening of the 2013 Beer Bloggers Conference took us to the Sam Adams brewery in Jamaica Plain, MA, just south of Boston. We filed in to the brewery and took our seats on rows of folding chairs set up along fermenters and other brewery equipment where every Sam Adams beer you’ve ever had began…
Food industry consulting and research firm Technomic, Inc. recently released its top ten trends in adult beverages and beer makes the list in several spots. Technomic used its ongoing research and surveys, interviews and discussions with brand marketers, on-premise and retail operators, bartenders and consumers to determine the major developments influencing adult beverages for 2013.…
The University of Montana Bureau of Business and Economic Research (there’s a mouthful) issued a press release yesterday about it’s study of the the impact craft brewing has on Montana’s economy. The independent study, initially released at the Montana Brewers Association fall conference in Missoula, shows some impressive results. As a whole, “the impact of…
On Friday the Brewers Association pointed to a recent study by Consumer Edge Insight suggesting a better beer selection improves restaurant sales. No real surprise there, especially to beer geeks, but the data is still useful. As is probably becoming clear, I tend to look at what these kinds of studies aren’t saying as much…
This month’s Session* topic is hosted by Derrick at Ramblings of a Beer Runner who begins with the following statistics: There’s been much cheering and fanfare reverberating throughout the brewing community about the latest brewery numbers recently released from the Brewer’s Association, who counted exactly 2,126 breweries in the United States. To put that into context, you have to go way back to…
I thought I was done with statistics for a while until an article titled The Geography of Craft Beer crossed my path. You might recall I recently mentioned I wasn’t too impressed with the “craft breweries per capita” statistic that now has Montana as No. 2 in the U.S. It’s one of those statistics that…
Mainstream media is at it again. A recent article in the Los Angeles Times points out that beer is more popular than wine as Americans’ booze of choice. It appears a Gallup poll found 39% of American drinkers prefer beer while 35% favor wine. This doesn’t seem much like news as that’s been the case…
I noticed the local weekly had a brief story this week about Montana taking over the No. 2 spot in “breweries per capita” based on information from 2011 released by the Brewers Association.* It’s a statistic we see thrown around on a fairly frequent basis. Montana keeps trading places with Oregon. Occasionally Maine sneaks in…