Craft brewer dollar share of U.S. beer market 2012-2023

In 2023, craft beer accounted for nearly a quarter of the total U.S. retail beer market. After a decline in 2020, craft beer had the largest share of the beer market in its time in 2021, at 26.8 percent. Since then, the market share has hovered around 24.7 percent.

Beer country

In the 2000s, new craft breweries were not introduced in the United States very often, compared to the late 2010s. In 2022, there were 549 craft brewery openings, while only ten years earlier, that number was just over 100. Craft or microbreweries could be found all over the United States, especially in states such as Pennsylvania, California, and New York. Each of these states accounted for over 500 establishments in 2022. With 957 establishments, California had the largest collection of craft breweries by far.

Leading craft beer brands

With the large number of craft breweries located in the United States comes a large variety of U.S. craft beer brands, such as Sierra Nevada, New Belgium, and Samuel Adams. The leading craft beer of 2022 was a Belgian-style wheat ale by the name of Blue Moon, which generated nearly 429 million U.S. dollars of sales.