by Mass Brew Bros | Dec 30, 2021 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
We thought 2020 was a tough year due to the pandemic, but 2021 was equally rough and with the recent surge in the Omicron variant, the brewery industry definitely looks to continue to be nimble. We did manage to visit our share of breweries this past year and most...
by Rob | Dec 28, 2021 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
In what may likely be the new normal for the Massachusetts craft brewing industry, 2021 experienced a net gain or growth of just 4 breweries: 19 openings and an all-time high 15 closures, running the state’s current total to 214. See the infographic below for a...
by Rob | Jan 4, 2021 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
With a new (and hopefully better) year upon us, we figured it was time to do our quarterly update of the Massachusetts Breweries By The Numbers infographic. Despite the pandemic, the commonwealth added 27 new breweries in 2020, four of which were existing brands that...
by Rob | Dec 30, 2020 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
Don’t let the headline fool you, 2020 could have been a lot worse. Our takeaway: maybe we can finally put the bubble talk to bed. Despite several years of “saturation” and “peak beer” speculation, not to mention an unprecedented pandemic...
by Rob | Dec 28, 2020 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
There’s no doubt that 2020 will go down in infamy for just about all of us, the craft beer community being no exception. Surprisingly, however, the news wasn’t all bad – at least not for everyone. Despite the pandemic and its roller coaster of...
by Rob | Jun 3, 2020 | Blog Posts, Mass. Brewery Stats
The Brewers Association (BA) recently published its annual industry review issue, an examination of the previous year’s production numbers for the nation’s more than 8,000 independent craft brewers. Of note was that most of the largest and so-called regional breweries...
