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By the way... from a Fortune magazine article dated January, 2016... the top 2016 craft brew trends to look out for:
(1) “Hard” soda flavored beers – Not Your Father’s Root Beer was just the beginning. As consumers have rushed to embrace ‘hard’ root beer, brewers have taken note and begun to expand their offerings. Coney Island Brewing Co., a subsidiary of the Boston Beer Co. SAM 1.63% , has already rolled out Hard Ginger Ale and Hard Orange Cream Ale. Small Town Brewery, maker of the hit Not Your Father’s Root Beer, was offering tastes of Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie, Not Your Mom’s French Toast and Not Your Mom’s Strawberry Rhubarb at last year’s Great American Beer Festival (and may roll some of those out nationally this year). Even San Diego’s Mission Brewery has begun making a hard root beer.
(2) Nitro-mania – Samuel Adams hopes to lead the charge to popularize a new style of carbonation in 2016 with its series of nitrogen-carbonated beers – a white ale, an IPA and a coffee stout. But it won’t be alone. Guinness, whose stout is arguably the leader in nitro beers, will continue to promote its nitro-IPA, which it released last year. And Left Hand Brewing’s recent expansion of its nitro offerings – adding Sawtooth Nitro American Ale, and Wake Up The Dead Imperial Stout Nitro to its already popular nitro Milk Stout – could boost the brewer’s already notable popularity.
(3) Craft Cider – Like hard root beer, there’s an argument to be made that hard cider isn’t beer. (It is, in fact, closer to a wine.) But it’s a fast growing area in the craft world – and even a few brewers are looking into ways to incorporate it into their wheelhouse.
(4) Crowlers – Canned beers are already hot – and that trend could begin to carry over to more growler stations this year. Rather than storing 32 or 64 ounces of beer in a glass container that lets light in and has a short shelf life, some shops are switching over to one-time use jumbo cans that allow buyers to store them for a longer time. It’s quick, and convenient – and it gives growler fill stations a chance to earn a bit more per fill.
(1) “Hard” soda flavored beers – Not Your Father’s Root Beer was just the beginning. As consumers have rushed to embrace ‘hard’ root beer, brewers have taken note and begun to expand their offerings. Coney Island Brewing Co., a subsidiary of the Boston Beer Co. SAM 1.63% , has already rolled out Hard Ginger Ale and Hard Orange Cream Ale. Small Town Brewery, maker of the hit Not Your Father’s Root Beer, was offering tastes of Not Your Mom’s Apple Pie, Not Your Mom’s French Toast and Not Your Mom’s Strawberry Rhubarb at last year’s Great American Beer Festival (and may roll some of those out nationally this year). Even San Diego’s Mission Brewery has begun making a hard root beer.
(2) Nitro-mania – Samuel Adams hopes to lead the charge to popularize a new style of carbonation in 2016 with its series of nitrogen-carbonated beers – a white ale, an IPA and a coffee stout. But it won’t be alone. Guinness, whose stout is arguably the leader in nitro beers, will continue to promote its nitro-IPA, which it released last year. And Left Hand Brewing’s recent expansion of its nitro offerings – adding Sawtooth Nitro American Ale, and Wake Up The Dead Imperial Stout Nitro to its already popular nitro Milk Stout – could boost the brewer’s already notable popularity.
(3) Craft Cider – Like hard root beer, there’s an argument to be made that hard cider isn’t beer. (It is, in fact, closer to a wine.) But it’s a fast growing area in the craft world – and even a few brewers are looking into ways to incorporate it into their wheelhouse.
(4) Crowlers – Canned beers are already hot – and that trend could begin to carry over to more growler stations this year. Rather than storing 32 or 64 ounces of beer in a glass container that lets light in and has a short shelf life, some shops are switching over to one-time use jumbo cans that allow buyers to store them for a longer time. It’s quick, and convenient – and it gives growler fill stations a chance to earn a bit more per fill.
