{"id":13251,"date":"2015-03-31T13:02:11","date_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/?p=13251"},"modified":"2015-03-31T13:02:11","modified_gmt":"2015-03-31T19:02:11","slug":"the-20-largest-breweries-50-years-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/the-20-largest-breweries-50-years-later\/","title":{"rendered":"The 20 largest breweries, 50 years later"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Brewers Association has released its lists of the nation’s largest brewing companies and the largest companies it classifies as craft breweries. Those are 50 deep, and you can find them many places, including the BA website<\/a>. There they also list what brands are made by each company, like that Craft Brew Alliance includes includes Kona, Omission, Red Hook, and Widmer Brothers brands.<\/p>\n

Two breweries listed were in the top 10 both in 2015 and 50 years ago, but one of them — Pabst — brews none of its own beers today. You might say things have changed. And you might think about what the list will look like in 50 more years.<\/p>\n\n\n\n\n\t\n\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t
<\/td>2015<\/th>1965<\/th>\n<\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
1<\/td>Anheuser-Busch<\/td>Anheuser-Busch<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
2<\/td>Miller Coors<\/td>Schlitz<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>Pabst<\/td>Pabst<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>D.G. Yuengling & Son<\/td>Falstaff<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>Boston Beer<\/td>Carling<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
6<\/td>North American Breweries<\/td>Schaefer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>Sierra Nevada<\/td>Ballantine<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
8<\/td>New Belgium<\/td>Rheingold<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>Craft Brew Alliance<\/td>Pfeiffer<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>Gambrinus<\/td>Hamm's<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>Lagunitas<\/td>Miller<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
12<\/td>Bell's<\/td>Coors<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>Deschutes<\/td>Olympia<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
14<\/td>Stone<\/td>Schmidt<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>Sleeman<\/td>Stroh<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
16<\/td>Minhaus<\/td>National<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>Brooklyn<\/td>Pearl<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>Duvel Moortgat<\/td>Lucky Lager<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>Dogfish head<\/td>Genesee<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>Matt<\/td>Jackson<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n\n

Before you ask, Yuengling was No. 72 in 1965 and Anchor Brewing was No. 121. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Brewers Association has released its lists of the nation’s largest brewing companies and the largest companies it classifies as craft breweries. Those are 50 deep, and you can find them many places, including the BA website. There they also list what brands are made by each company, like that Craft Brew Alliance includes includes … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[292],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13251","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-musing"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4wTn-3rJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13251"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13264,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13251\/revisions\/13264"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/appellationbeer.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}