The craft beer boom is over. These new breweries find hope in staying small.

Craft brew looked starkly antithetic successful 2018, erstwhile Averie Swanson began readying to unfastened her brewery, Keeping Together. That year, tiny breweries nationally made much brew than the twelvemonth prior, contempt Americans’ brew depletion dipping slightly. The Brewers Association, the commercialized radical representing those trade brewers, described 2018 arsenic a play of “mature and stable” single-digit measurement growth. Roughly a 1000 caller breweries opened.