Real Women Drink Beer: Golden Age of Beer

Right now is being touted as the Golden Age of Beer. While this may or may not be the case, the numbers are astounding.

...According to the Brewers Association, the craft industry's national trade organization, based in Boulder, Colo., the number of regional craft brewers and microbreweries has grown to 445, up from 408 in 2006. Add the 975 brewpubs the association counts, and the number of craft-brewing businesses in the U.S. totaled 1,420 in 2007. Volume grew 12 percent and sales 16 percent in 2007 from 2006. The microbrewery category alone surged 20 percent, indicating, according to the association, "great interest in local brewers."

Read this rather lengthy but well written story from the Washington CEO here: article