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Article: Craft beer sales on the rise
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- SouthtownStar (Chicago, IL)
- Article date:
- May 21, 2009
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By Steve Adams GateHouse News Service Kingston, Mass. - Craft beer sales continue to rise even as the beer industry feels the pinch from frugal consumer spending and higher costs. "In the mid-'90s, people still didn't know whether this was a fad or not," said Dan Kenary, president of South Boston-based Harpoon Brewing Co. "There were a lot of people flocking in, trying to make a quick buck. Now there are people who have grown up with this industry their whole life." The Boulder, Colo.-based Brewers Association defines craft brewers as those with annual production of less than two million barrels, that have less than 25 percent ownership by a non-craft alcohol beverage company, and that ...