Mid-April means taxes (did you remember?!), but it also means the release of the previous year’s beer sales figures, helpfully compiled by the Brewers Association. We already know that craft breweries continued to grow in 2012, accounting for 6.5% of total beer sales (up from 5.7%), but it’s always interesting to see who’s really moving product on a large scale. If you compare the numbers below with those from 2011, there wasn’t a huge amount of movement, except for Lagunitas, which moved up to sixth place. Brooklyn Brewery also hopped two places up to 11 after expanding its Williamsburg facility.
Did you realize all of the breweries below were so big?
Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies
(Based on 2012 beer sales volume)
Top 50 Overall U.S. Brewing Companies
(Based on 2012 beer sales volume)
[via Brewer Association]