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The End of the Beginning of Southeast Craft Beer Growth
While the Southeast was a bit behind the national curve in craft brewing, an effort among larger breweries and state and local governments helped the industry catch up. Now, six years in, what's worked, what hasn’t, and what does the future hold?
While the Southeast was a bit behind the national curve in craft brewing, an effort among larger breweries and state and local governments helped the industry catch up. Now, six years in, what's worked, what hasn’t, and what does the future hold? <a href="https://brewingindustryguide.com/the-end-of-the-beginning-of-southeast-craft-beer-growth/">Continue reading.</a>
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The curtain is closing on the frontier days of craft beer in the southeastern United States.
Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.’s 2012 announcement that it would build an East Coast facility in western North Carolina launched the era of craft beer as economic development in both that state and Virginia. The Chico, California-based brewery was followed by other brewers who built production facilities in the two states amid a rapidly growing craft scene that included two local stars that were acquired by Anheuser-Busch InBev (ABI) as part of its High End division.
Six years later, the growth is beginning to slow, leaving a much more stable and entrenched craft-beer market. These structural changes come at a time of general decline for the beer industry.
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