Ballantine’s Literary Ads: Clarence Budington Kelland

July 11, 2018 By Jay Brooks

Between 1951 and 1953, P. Ballantine and Sons Brewing Company, or simply Ballentine Beer, created a series of ads with at least thirteen different writers. They asked each one “How would you put a glass of Ballantine Ale into words?” Each author wrote a page that included reference to their beer, and in most cases not subtly. One of them was Clarence Budington Kelland, who was an American writer. He once described himself as “the best second-rate writer in America”

Today is the birthday of Clarence Budington Kelland (July 11, 1881–February 18, 1964). “Although largely forgotten now, Kelland had a long career as a writer of fiction and short stories, stretching from 1913 to 1960. He was published in many magazines, including The Saturday Evening Post and The American Magazine. A prolific writer, his output included sixty novels and some two hundred short stories. His best known juvenile works were the Mark Tidd series and the Catty Atkins series, while his best known adult work was the Scattergood Baines series. Other notable adult books by Kelland include Conflict (1920), Rhoda Fair (1925), Hard Money (1930), Arizona (1939), and Dangerous Angel (1953). Kelland was the “literary idol” of the teenaged John O’Hara. He was referred to in a 1995 installment of Harlan Ellison’s television commentary, Harlan Ellison’s Watching for the program Sci-Fi Buzz, wherein Ellison laments what he perceives as a prevailing cultural illiteracy.

Kelland’s work resulted in some thirty Hollywood movies, including Speak Easily (1932) starring Buster Keaton. Opera Hat, a serial from The American Magazine, was the basis for the film Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936) starring Gary Cooper. Opera Hat later was turned into the short-lived television series Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1969–70), and the movie Mr. Deeds (2002). One of Kelland’s best-known characters was featured in the Scattergood Baines series of six films from 1941 to 1943, starring Guy Kibbee.”

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His 1952 piece for Ballantine was done as a reminiscence of his first taste of Ballantine in America, just after a well-played round of golf:

Ballangine is a companionable drink.
With a glass in hand, conversation seems to flow more freely, and even controversial subjects are discussed more tolerantly in a spirit of friendship.
Ballantine Ale does not interrupt, but becomes a charming part of conversation. It seems to belong with pleasant words and valued friends — to be lingered over its thoughtful enjoyment.
When a party of gentlemen gathers for purposes serious or genial, Ballantine Ale becomes a sort of moderator. It seems, somehow, to mellow the atmosphere in tune with its own mellowness. It is the most desirable of all social beverages.

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1877 U.S. Brewers Association Convention

June 6, 2018 By Jay Brooks

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This is an interesting photo I came across in 100 Years of Brewing, which was originally published in 1903. This two-page double truck is a photo of all the attendees of the Seventeenth annual convention of the United States Brewers Association, which was held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The photo was taken on June 6, 1877.

There are 133 people in the photo, although not all of them are identified. Quite a few of the people in the photo are, or rather were, pretty big deals in the brewing industry at that time, which makes sense. This was, after all, the biggest trade convention for brewing. But when you read the names, it’s a veritable who’s who of the brewing industry.

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Luckily, they included a numbered key to identify the people in the picture.

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Interestingly, even though the photo was taken in 1877, by the time it was published in “100 Years of Brewing,” 26 years later, 55 of the 133 people in the photo had died, or over 40%.

Here are slightly larger images of the two pages, first the left page, followed by the right.

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Waxing Nostalgic Extemporaneously For The Next Session … Today!

May 4, 2018 By Jay Brooks

For our 135th Session, our host will be Alistair Reece, who writes Fuggled. For his topic, he’s taking a look back in Sepia Tones, by which he challenges us to “indulge in a little beer nostalgia, a bit of personal beer history you might say.”

Until this morning, we were without a host, so a big thanks to Alistair for stepping up last minute and hosting. (That also means right now you should think about hosting June or beyond!) So understandably his topic is lean, although not so mean. Here are his instructions on participating:

What kind of things would be suitable topics for today? Well, here’s some suggestions:
Discontinued beers that you miss.
Breweries you once loved that are no longer around.
Beers that are simply not what they once were.
Your early steps in the world of beer drinking, whether craft or just in general.
There you have it, get melancholy, drag up memories of good times gone by, and join us in this month’s Session.

So no time to waste, it’s already the first Friday of May, so time to start waxing nostalgic and write your session post today. Then post a link to your session post at the original announcement or I imagine you could tag him on Twitter, too. Either way, don’t delay. Time’s a wasting.

Top 50 Breweries For 2017

March 14, 2018 By Jay Brooks

The Brewers Association just announced the top 50 breweries and craft breweries in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2017, which is listed below here. I should also mention that this represents “craft breweries” according to the BA’s membership definition, and not necessarily how most of us would define them, as there’s no universally agreed upon way to differentiate the two. For the tenth year, they’ve also released a list of the top 50 breweries, which includes all breweries. In the past I’ve posted the two lists separately, but have decided going forward to present them together since the two are getting increasingly intermingled. Here is this year’s craft brewery list:

Top 50 Craft Brewing Companies

Rank	Brewery Name	City	State
1	D. G. Yuengling & Son, Inc	Pottsville	PA
2	Boston Beer Co	Boston	MA
3	Sierra Nevada Brewing	Chico	CA
4	New Belgium Brewing	Fort Collins	CO
5	Duvel Moortgat	Paso Robles/Kansas City/Cooperstown	CA/MO/NY
6	Gambrinus	San Antonio/Berkeley/Portland	TX/CA/OR
7	Bell’s Brewery, Inc	Comstock	MI
8	Stone Brewing	Escondido	CA
9	CANarchy	Longmont/Tampa/Salt Lake City/ Comstock Park	CO/FL/UT/MI
10	Deschutes Brewery	Bend	OR
11	Brooklyn Brewery	Brooklyn	NY
12	Dogfish Head Craft Brewery	Milton	DE
13	Minhas Craft Brewery	Monroe	WI
14	Artisanal Brewing Ventures	Downingtown/Lakewood	PA/NY
15	SweetWater Brewing	Atlanta	GA
16	New Glarus Brewing	New Glarus	WI
17	Matt Brewing	Utica	NY
18	Harpoon Brewery	Boston	MA
19	Alaskan Brewing	Juneau	AK
20	Great Lakes Brewing	Cleveland	OH
21	Abita Brewing	Abita Springs	LA
22	Odell Brewing	Fort Collins	CO
23	Stevens Point Brewery	Stevens Point	WI
24	August Schell Brewing	New Ulm	MN
25	Summit Brewing	Saint Paul	MN
26	21st Amendment Brewery	Bay Area	CA
27	Shipyard Brewing	Portland	ME
28	Flying Dog Brewery	Frederick	MD
29	Full Sail Brewing	Hood River	OR
30	Troëgs Brewing	Hershey	PA
31	Long Trail Brewing	Bridgewater Corners	VT
32	Rogue Ales	Newport	OR
33	Rhinegeist Brewery	Cincinnati	OH
34	Narragansett Brewing	Providence	RI
35	Gordon Biersch Brewing	San Jose	CA
36	Allagash Brewing	Portland	ME
37	Uinta Brewing	Salt Lake City	UT
38	Ninkasi Brewing	Eugene	OR
39	Surly Brewing	Minneapolis	MN
40	Revolution Brewing	Chicago	IL
41	Karl Strauss Brewing	San Diego	CA
42	Bear Republic Brewing	Cloverdale	CA
43	Green Flash Brewing	San Diego	CA
44	Left Hand Brewing	Longmont	CO
45	Three Floyds Brewing	Munster	IN
46	Saint Arnold Brewing	Houston	TX
47	Lost Coast Brewery	Eureka	CA
48	North Coast Brewing	Fort Bragg	CA
49	Wachusett Brewing	Westminster	MA
50	Avery Brewing	Boulder	CO

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This list, by contrast, is the Top 50 Overall Brewing Companies in the U.S. based on sales, by volume, for 2017. This includes all breweries, regardless of size or any other definitions or parameters.

Breweries in bold are considered to be “small and independent craft brewers” under the BA’s current definition. That there are so many footnotes (23 in total, or almost half of the list) explaining exceptions or reasons for the specific entry, seems illustrative of a growing problem with the definition of what is a craft brewery. I certainly understand the need for a trade group to have a clearly defined set of criteria for membership, but I think the current one is getting increasingly outdated again, and it’s only been a few years since the contentious debate that resulted in the current BA one. But it may be time to revisit that again. This is the same number of footnotes as last year, so this is a problem that is not resolving itself.

Top 50 Overall Brewing Companies

Rank	Brewery Name	City	State
Bold = small and independent craft brewery
1	Anheuser-Busch, Inc (a)	Saint Louis	MO
2	MillerCoors (b)	Chicago	IL
3	Constellation (c)	Chicago	IL
4	Heineken (d)	White Plains	NY
5	Pabst Brewing (e)	Los Angeles	CA
6	D. G. Yuengling & Son	Pottsville	PA
7	North Amer. Breweries (f)	Rochester	NY
8	Diageo (g)	Norwalk	CT
9	Boston Beer Co (h)	Boston	MA
10	Sierra Nevada Brewing	Chico	CA
11	New Belgium Brewing (i)	Fort Collins	CO
12	Craft Brew Alliance (j)	Portland	OR
13	Duvel Moortgat (k)	Paso Robles/Kansas City/Cooperstown	CA/MO/NY
14	Gambrinus (l)	San Antonio/Berkeley/Portland	TX/CA/OR
15	Founders Brewing (m)	Grand Rapids	MI
16	Bell’s Brewery, Inc (n)	Comstock	MI
17	Sapporo USA (o)	La Crosse	WI
18	Stone Brewing	Escondido	CA
19	CANarchy (p)	Longmont/Tampa/Salt Lake City/Comstock Park	CO/FL/UT/MI
20	Deschutes Brewery	Bend	OR
21	Brooklyn Brewery	Brooklyn	NY
22	Dogfish Head	Milton	DE
23	Minhas Craft Brewery (q)	Monroe	WI
24	Artisanal Brewing Ventures (r)	Downingtown/Lakewood	PA/NY
25	SweetWater Brewing	Atlanta	GA
26	New Glarus Brewing	New Glarus	WI
27	Matt Brewing (s)	Utica	NY
28	Harpoon Brewery	Boston	MA
29	Alaskan Brewing	Juneau	AK
30	Great Lakes Brewing	Cleveland	OH
31	Abita Brewing	Abita Springs	LA
32	Odell Brewing	Fort Collins	CO
33	Stevens Point (t)	Stevens Point	WI
34	August Schell (u)	New Ulm	MN
35	Summit Brewing	Saint Paul	MN
36	21st Amendment	Bay Area	CA
37	Shipyard Brewing (v)	Portland	ME
38	Flying Dog Brewery	Frederick	MD
39	Full Sail Brewing	Hood River	OR
40	Troëgs Brewing	Hershey	PA
41	Long Trail Brewing (w)	Bridgewater Corners	VT
42	Rogue Ales	Newport	OR
43	Rhinegeist Brewery	Cincinnati	OH
44	Narragansett Brewing	Providence	RI
45	Gordon Biersch Brewing	San Jose	CA
46	Allagash Brewing Co	Portland	ME
47	Uinta Brewing	Salt Lake City	UT
48	Ninkasi Brewing	Eugene	OR
49	Surly Brewing	Minneapolis	MN
50	Revolution Brewing	Chicago	IL

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2017 Top 50 Overall U.S.
Brewing Companies Notes

Footnotes from brand lists are illustrative, and may not be exhaustive – ownership stakes
reflect greater than 25% ownership:

(a) Anheuser-Busch, Inc includes 10 Barrel, Bass, Beck’s, Blue Point, Bud Light,
Budweiser, Breckenridge, Busch, Devils Backbone, Elysian, Four Peaks, Golden
Road, Goose Island, Karbach, King Cobra, Landshark, Michelob, Natural Rolling
Rock, Shock Top, Wicked Weed, Wild Series brands and Ziegenbock brands.
Does not include partially owned Coastal, Craft Brew Alliance, Fordham, Kona,
Old Dominion, Omission, Red Hook, and Widmer Brothers brands;
(b) MillerCoors includes A.C. Golden, Batch 19, Blue Moon, Colorado Native,
Coors, Hamms, Hop Valley, Icehouse, Keystone, Killian’s, Leinenkugel’s,
Mickey’s, Milwaukee’s Best, Miller, Olde English, Revolver, Saint Archer, Steel
Reserve, Tenth & Blake, and Terrapin brands;
(c) Constellation Brewing Co includes domestic brands Ballast Point, Funky Buddha,
and Tocayo Brands; it also includes imported brands Corona, Modelo, Pacifico,
and Victoria;
(d) Heineken Brewing Co includes domestic brand Lagunitas Brewing Co as well as
imported brands Dos Equis and Tecate;
(e) Pabst Brewing Co includes Ballantine, Lone Star, Pabst, Pearl, Primo, Rainier,
Schlitz and Small Town brands;
(f) North American Breweries includes Dundee, Genesee, Labatt Lime,
Mactarnahan’s, Magic Hat, Portland and Pyramid brands as well as import
volume;
(g) Diageo Brewing Co includes both domestically produced and imported Guinness
brands;
(h) Boston Beer Co includes Alchemy & Science and Sam Adams brands. Does not
include Twisted Tea or Angry Orchard brands;
(i) New Belgium Brewing Co includes Magnolia Brewing Brands (partial year);
(j) Craft Brew Alliance includes Kona, Omission, Red Hook and Widmer Brothers
brands;
(k) Duvel Moortgat includes Boulevard, Firestone Walker, and Ommegang brands;
(l) Gambrinus includes BridgePort, Shiner and Trumer brands;
(m)Founders ownership stake by Mahou San Miguel;
(n) Bell’s Brewery, Inc includes Bell’s and Upper Hand brands;
(o) Sapporo USA includes Anchor Brewing Co (partial year), Sapporo and Sleeman
brands as well as export volume;
(p) CANarchy includes Cigar City, Oskar Blues Brewing Co, Perrin and Utah
Brewers Cooperative brands;
(q) Minhas Craft Brewery includes Huber, Mountain Crest and Rhinelander brands as
well as export volume;
(r) Artisanal Brewing Ventures includes Victory and Southern Tier brands;
(s) Matt Brewing Co includes Flying Bison, Saranac and Utica Club brands;
(t) Stevens Point Brewery includes James Page and Point brands;
(u) August Schell Brewing Co includes Grain Belt and Schell’s brands;
(v) Shipyard Brewing Co includes Casco Bay, Sea Dog and Shipyard brands;
(w)Long Trail Brewing Co includes Long Trail, Otter Creek and The Shed brands;

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Here is this year’s press release. For a few years, the BA had helpfully annotated the list, saving me lots of time, since I’d been annotating the list for nearly a decade, but they abandoned that practice three years ago. And I’ve also given up on annotating, too. It used to be fun to see who was doing well and rising and who was slipping, but it’s as much about business dealings as hard work and brewing, so I give up.

And similar to the last couple of years, the BA created a map showing the relative location of each of the breweries that made the list.

Session #131: Three Questions, Three Answers

January 5, 2018 By Jay Brooks

For our 131st Session, I’m the host so I suppose it seems like a bit of a cheat for me since I made up the questions. Anyway, here are my three “simple” questions, with my own answers, which — for the record — I did not know in advance. The questions came first, then I had to come up with the answers the same way as anyone else. Still, I think, and hope, my questions will be fun and make everyone think about it a little bit. Plus, as many have pointed out, it was a Session emergency and I had to think fast.

Question No. 1

For our first question of the new year, what one word, or phrase, do you think should be used to describe beer that you’d like to drink. Craft beer seems to be the most agreed upon currently used term, but many people think it’s losing its usefulness or accuracy in describing it. What should we call it, do you think?

Short Answer: Beer

Long Answer: For a while now, I’ve been thinking that trying to divide up beer into two or more camps — big beer vs. craft beer, et al. — has become a fool’s errand. It just doesn’t work anymore, if indeed it ever really did. As the size of the brewery, ownership issues and other factors complicate how we define what constitutes a craft brewery, that’s pretty much all inside baseball. Consumers, of which I’m still one, don’t really care about most of these so long as the beer tastes good. There are reasons to care about ownership. I get that. And I certainly understand why the Brewers Association needs to define a craft brewery, but for almost everyone else it’s not terribly important. And since the term is increasingly meaningless to a majority of people, I think it’s time to ditch it and go back to calling it all beer. There’s just beer I’ll drink, and beer I don’t really want to drink. That’s how it’s always been, and that’s how it will always be.

Question No. 2

For our second question of the new year, what two breweries do you think are very underrated? Name any two places that don’t get much attention but are quietly brewing great beer day in and day out. And not just one shining example, but everything they brew should be spot on. And ideally, they have a great tap room, good food, or other stellar amenities of some kind. But for whatever reason, they’ve been mostly overlooked. Maybe 2018 should be the year they hit it big. Who are they?

Answer 1: Stan mentioned Chuckanut in his session post, and I have to heartily agree. Every beer Will Kemper makes is just fantastic. His lagers are second to none, just spot on. He’s the Matt Brynildsohn of lagers, or maybe Matt’s the Will Kemper of hoppy beers (although Pivo doesn’t suck). The point is his lagers are just amazing

Answer 2: My second has to be Moonlight Brewing, the tiny self-distributing brewery tucked into Santa Rosa. It doesn’t hurt that owner/brewer Brian Hunt is one of my favorite people on Planet Beer, but he’s also the best brewer you’ve probably never heard of. I feel fortunate to live when you can find his beer, because it doesn’t exactly have wide distribution — only as far as Brian’s van can go.

For our third question of the new year, name three kinds of beer you’d like to see more of. It’s clear hoppy beers, IPAs and all of the other hop-forward beers they’ve spawned, are here to say. There seems to be a few other styles that are popular, too, like saisons, barrel-aged beers, anything imperial and also sour beers of all kinds. But lots of other previously popular beers seem sidelined these days. What three types of beer do you think deserve more attention or at least should be more available for you to enjoy? They can be anything except IPAs, or the other extreme beers. I mean, they could be, I suppose, but I’m hoping for beers that we don’t hear much about or that fewer and fewer breweries are making. What styles should return, re-emerge or be resurrected in 2018?

Answer 1: Milds. It’s baffling to me that people are trying to make sessionable versions of other beers, when there are already milds out there. Even more mystifying is that American brewers consistently have found that if they call their beer a “mild,” no one will buy it. If they give it a name without mild in it, people will order it. But I love milds, if only more people made them.

Answer 2: Rye beers. Really any beer with some rye in the grain bill I generally like. I just love that spicy note that rye adds. It doesn’t need much rye to give it that extra oomph, although I’ll drink it no matter how much rye is used. Bear Republic once brewer a 100% rye beer as an experiment, finally making it work, and I was privileged to be there when they tapped the first keg. I thought it was delicious.

Answer 3: Dunkelweizens. I already like German hefeiweizens but dunkleweizens just add a welcome additional element. The ones with chocolate notes are especially good to my taste, but the dark malt is great regardless and I find just that much more delicious than the regular weizens with malted wheat and pilsner malt.

New Session: Three Things In 2018

January 5, 2018 By Jay Brooks

For our 131st Session this month our host will be me, from the Brookston Beer Bulletin, stepping in because I hadn’t realized no one had offered to host until it was pointed out this morning on Twitter. For my topic, I’ve chosen Three Things, a quick session topic as we look ahead to what this year, and beyond, will bring to the world of beer. So here we go, three quick questions for you to ponder and answer extemporaneously as best you can from your perspective.

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Question No. 1

For our first question of the new year, what one word, or phrase, do you think should be used to describe beer that you’d like to drink. Craft beer seems to be the most agreed upon currently used term, but many people think it’s losing its usefulness or accuracy in describing it. What should we call it, do you think?

ANSWER: ____________________

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Question No. 2

For our second question of the new year, what two breweries do you think are very underrated? Name any two places that don’t get much attention but are quietly brewing great beer day in and day out. And not just one shining example, but everything they brew should be spot on. And ideally, they have a great tap room, good food, or other stellar amenities of some kind. But for whatever reason, they’ve been mostly overlooked. Maybe 2018 should be the year they hit it big. Who are they?

ANSWER 1: ____________________

ANSWER 2: ____________________

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For our third question of the new year, name three kinds of beer you’d like to see more of. It’s clear hoppy beers, IPAs and all of the other hop-forward beers they’ve spawned, are here to say. There seems to be a few other styles that are popular, too, like saisons, barrel-aged beers, anything imperial and also sour beers of all kinds. But lots of other previously popular beers seem sidelined these days. What three types of beer do you think deserve more attention or at least should be more available for you to enjoy? They can be anything except IPAs, or the other extreme beers. I mean, they could be, I suppose, but I’m hoping for beers that we don’t hear much about or that fewer and fewer breweries are making. What styles should return, re-emerge or be resurrected in 2018?

ANSWER 1: ____________________

ANSWER 2: ____________________

ANSWER 3: ____________________

So stop what you’re doing and start a new Session post. Now would be good. To participate in the January Session, today, Friday, January 5, write your post as soon as feasible, then leave a comment below or shoot me an e-mail or copy me (@Brookston) in your Twitter feed with your link. Don’t think about it too long, just give the first answers that pop into your head.

The Secret Life of Machines: Adnams Brewery

January 1, 2018 By Jay Brooks

A favorite British television show of mine was The Secret Life of Machines, by Tim Hunkin, whose birthday is today, January 1, 1950. Hunkin is “an English engineer, cartoonist, writer, and artist living in Suffolk, England. He is best known for creating the Channel Four television series The Secret Life of Machines, in which he explains the workings and history of various household devices. He has also created museum exhibits for institutions across the UK, and designed numerous public engineering works, chiefly for entertainment. Hunkin’s works are distinctive, often recognisable by his unique style of papier-mâché sculpture (made from unpainted newsprint), his pen and ink cartoons, and his offbeat sense of humour.” Given that his show, three seasons between 1988-1993, was about how machines work, it’s surprisingly low-key and minimalist, but quite fascinating. And often very funny.

Anyway, in 1977, Adnams Brewery, commissioned Hunkin to create a poster of their brewery in Suffolk. Hunkin remembered. “I spent a month drawing it and so enjoyed the experience that I moved out of London to Suffolk where I’ve lived ever since. I didn’t even drink much of the beer at the time. Before drawing it, I don’t think I had ever appreciated how the combination of words and drawings can make conveying information much clearer and simpler. I was able to dramatically cut the text about the brewing process by having it integrated with the drawing of the vats and pipes. I think all journalists should be taught to draw.”

I have a couple of books by Hunkin that are filled with detailed doodle drawings with loads of text like this, and they’re great, so I’d love to see what he wrote in this poster although the biggest file of the poster I could find wasn’t quite big enough to read it all.

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Or you can see it full size here.

California Brewery Count Hits 900

December 12, 2017 By Jay Brooks

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Today the California Craft Brewers Association announced another milestone in California breweries has been reached. There are now 900 breweries in the Golden State, which means that over 9 out of 10 California resident now lives within 10 miles of a brewery.

Here’s the press release:

“The craft beer industry has tripled over the last five years, up from 300 breweries in 2012 to just over 900 breweries in operation today, according to data released by the nonprofit trade association representing the industry, the California Craft Brewers Association (CCBA). California is home to more craft breweries than any state in the nation, with nearly 92 percent of the state’s 39.5 million residents living within 10 miles of a brewery.

’11 percent of the craft brewing industry’s total $67.8 billion economic impact comes from California,’ said Bart Watson, Chief Economist at the Brewers Association. ‘These data highlight the powerful economic impact craft brewers have in California and across the nation.’

According to the CCBA report, the total economic impact of craft breweries in California exceeds $7.3 billion. This figure is derived from the total impact of beer brewed by craft brewers as it moves from breweries to distributors to retailers as well as non-beer merchandise sold at breweries and tasting rooms.

By the Numbers:

Craft breweries in California supported nearly 50,000 full-time jobs with an average wage of $55,000 a year.
California’s craft breweries paid $1.49 billion in taxes in 2016, including $868 million in state and local taxes and $617 million in federal taxes.
California’s craft breweries produced 3,295,221 barrels of beer in 2016. Breweries exported 1.17 million barrels, which is greater than the total craft production in all but five states in the nation.
The number of licensed breweries grew by more than 100 in the last year – more than any state in the country and an increase that was greater than the total licensed number of breweries in 34 states.

‘The positive impact of craft breweries on the state of California goes far beyond just the benefits of tax revenue, manufacturing jobs and tourism,’ said CCBA executive director, Tom McCormick. ‘Craft breweries also have a tangible influence on the growth and development of their region, investing in their community, employing their neighbors and supporting local nonprofits. Craft breweries are the living room, the town hall and the gathering place for their community.’”

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