Over 50 New Breweries in 25 US States Opened in Spring 2012

Lexington, KY also had Country Boy Brewing open, and Louisville saw the opening of Apocalypse Brew Works.

 

Makes me wonder when are stores simply going to run out of shelf space to carry all the new breweries showing up...

 

I am going to Pig Minds Tonite! Will report back!

 

Tired Hands opened up about a week ago as well outside of Philly.

 

Funny enough, the CO listing is omitting a few and we have a bunch more on the way.

 

cant help but think. the more breweries that open, the more that wont make it and be forced to either close or sell. i think the ones that have to sell, that made a decent name for them selves will get bought up by AB and miller Coors. so they can release "craft" beer under a different name. not that they haven't been basically doing this already

 

Great, even more future whales I'm going to have to save for.

 

What a great time to be a fine beer lover. The pace of the craft beer revolution is staggering. Hope there are enough thirsty folk to support all of these.

 

They missed Pike 51 in Hudsonville, MI too. There's a few more on the way in Michigan, Boatyard Brewing Company in Kzoo, Perrin Brewing in Comstock Park, and more to come.

 

Most of these new breweries are going to take a year or more to start cranking out good beer. Remember the 90's. Lots will produce crap, most of them will fail.

 

Not a very comprehensive list. They missed a few. Hydro Street Brewing in Columnus WI

 

This has been the case for years in the Boston area - sucks for beer drinkers like me who like to drink more than one bottle of each brand. For example, I can buy mixed 12 packs of Troeg's, but impossible to find a six pack of their pale ale. And good local/regional beers that fly under the beer geek radar are getting harder and harder to find - as well as import lagers. Seems like there are many stores that either cater to beer geeks with lots of obscure bombers and 750's or to the bmc crowd - and the middle tier is getting squeezed out.

 

Personally, I am finding it harder and harder to find beer that I want to drink and willing to pay its price. It was much easier 10 years ago.

 

Something's gonna have to give. Either small breweries are going to start closing up shop in droves, or distribution is going to become more regional and we're going to see more brewers pull back their distribution range.

I simply don't believe there's a sustainable market for this kind of innundation of craft brewers.

 

For California, it's Monkish...not Monkfish haha

 

I hear you, but i think with there being over 6,000 vineyards in the usa, approx. 2,000 usa breweries seem small (ie, if wine drinkers can support 6k, I would think beer drinkers could support well more than 2k; of course, i have zero research to back that up). I think we are just making up for lost time.

 

Ten years ago I had never heard of Nugget Nectar, Flower Power, Big A, Lunch, Sublimely Self Righteous, Super Kitty, Joe Mamas Stout, Brute, LeBleu, 2XIPA, Finest Kind, Saison Brett, The Abyss, Ommegang BPA, Captain Lawrence, etc., etc., and I could keep this list going til the cows come home.

Perhaps things are different in the far off land of Massachusetts

 

Most already have, unless you think a row of just singles counts....sucks in some ways. At least as far as Total wine stores, seems like the more beer brands they carry the less, actual six packs are on the shelf! What I mean is there is just so much space and if you want six packs of things, there is not enough room for them, so they break them up and place them on the singles row, which does not help me much, as I not going to pay single prices......

 

Its just another cycle and a fad for many, everyone wants a to build a brewery now its So popular, of course its when so Popular, you know its a bubble. It happened in the 1990's and it will again, I hate to be negative about it, but what goes up always comes down. (unless your in space,and there are no pubs in space). I do not think its this year I think its 2013/2014 and wham the peak will be hit. Only time will tell though.