Baltimore Checkbook: Craft beer sales set new national mark in 2015

Thursday, March 24, 2016

Craft beer sales set new national mark in 2015

Craft beer sales exceeded 20 percent of the American beer market in 2015 — a new record for the booming industry sub-sector, even as the pace of growth for small, locally owned breweries dropped to its lowest mark in four years. Craft brewers accounted for $22.3 billion in sales last year, a jump of 16 percent from 2014, according to an annual report from industry group the Brewers Association. That represented a 21 percent market share — an astonishing number for a segment that was under 10…