Bridge Magazine: Craft beer washes over Michigan
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Kalamazoo is working to make itself into craft beer mecca so we were interested to read the Bridge magazine report that Michigan’s craft beer industry is growing so fast that leaders of the trade association representing it can’t keep track of all the activity. Michigan’s craft beer industry pumped about $133 million into the state’s economy in 2012.
Excerpt: “I have no idea how many breweries are under construction,” said Scott Graham, executive director of the Michigan Brewers Guild. “I used to know about everyone.”
The association estimates there are about 140 breweries, microbreweries and brewpubs in the state, many of them microbreweries that produce fewer than 30,000 barrels a year. That’s up from just three in 1991.
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