In a Business Insider column, Hall wrote a brief summary of the issues facing today's large and
small brewers while acknowledging Goose Island's own migration to Anheuser - Busch InBev's High End craft and import division.
Not exact matches
While there are still just a
small number of
brewers, that's changing — and they're winning major awards, like NoDa's Hop Drop «N Roll, which took home a gold medal from the 2014 World Beer Cup.
Tired of watching mainstream beer sales fall
while the craft beer craze soared, large international companies like MillerCoors and Anheuser - Busch InBev have hijacked the playbook of
small, independent
brewers.
Mainstream, commercial beers are in decline with drinkers wanting new and interesting offerings that
small craft
brewers are providing, albeit in tiny quantities,
while the shifting trend toward better health and wellbeing has also dulled the appeal of heavy, full - strength beers.
While small and independent craft
brewers represent 99 percent of the 5,300 + breweries in the U.S., they make just 12 percent of the beer sold in the country.
Typically, most beers are fermented in stainless steel tanks,
while a
small percentage of
brewers opt for oak.