Prohibition Hangover; American Beer and Spirits  

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Jenis: Article from Bulletin/Magazine
Dalam koleksi: The Economist (http://search.proquest.com/) vol. 404 no. 8801 (Sep. 2012), page 58-59.
Topik: Breweries; Small Business; Distilleries; Brands; Regulation; States; Statistical Data; Market Shares; Beer

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American beer drinkers, who once had little option besides gassy, mass-produced bathwater, may now choose from hundreds of beers of all shades, styles and strengths. Craft beers' share of the national throat remains small, but it is growing. And as beer goes, so go spirits, as laws dating from Prohibition are whittled away. Craft sales rose between 2010 and 2011, as overall American beer sales declined. These days bars with 20 taps are common. Even the big breweries recognise the value in craft-beer cachet. According to the Brewers Association, in 2011 there were 1,940 craft breweries in operation. Frank Coleman of the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States says that in 2001 there were perhaps 24 craft distilleries in America--producers of at most 40,000 nine-litre cases a year. Today there are ten times as many. Unlike brewers, distillers are taxed at a single excise rate, whatever their size. Some of the sillier regulations are fading. Eighteen states maintain some form of monopoly control over the sale of alcohol, whether at the wholesale or retail level.

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