4,000: Attendees who sampled beers from seventy-six small and independent breweries at this year’s SAVOR: An American Craft Beer & Food Experience (pictured above, photo: Eddie Arrossi). Read more about the event in a Brewers Association press release.
2,450: Jobs that craft beer creates in the state of Alabama, CEO of Back Forty Beer Co. Jason Wilson told the Birmingham Business Journal. The twenty-seven licensed breweries in the state are responsible for a $235 million economic impact, he said. Here’s the article.
35: The number of breweries in the state of New Hampshire now, pending a few openings, according to NHBeer.org.
7: Festivals in seven cities in the Beer Camp Across America traveling festival tour that ends in North Carolina when Sierra Nevada’s new production brewery opens its doors. Every craft brewery in the country—more than 2,700—has been invited by the Chico, California-based brewery. Festival map and tickets.
25,000: Barrels that Arizona’s SanTan Brewing, the hosts of the AmeriCAN Canned Craft Beer Festival that went down this month, expects to brew this year. Read the Shanken News Daily release.
44: Million dollars in net sales that the Craft Brew Alliance—a portfolio that includes Widmer Brothers, Redhook, and Kona Brewing— reported for the first quarter of 2014.
25: The years in business that Odell Brewing and Boulevard Brewing are celebrating with their collaboration beer, an English Strong Ale slated for release in November. Details here.