American Craft Beers

Beer in the United States is manufactured by more than 1,700 breweries, which range in size from industry giants to brew pubs and microbreweries. A burgeoning exciting and influencing Craft beer scene, certainly it's foot print is larger than it's production.    American Craft Beer is certainly in recent years become doyen of the global beer world.  

American Beer History

While beer was an early part of colonial life in the United States, Prohibition in the early 20th century caused nearly all American breweries to close. After it was repealed, the industry was dominated by a consolidated number of large-scale breweries. The big breweries that returned to producing beer after Prohibition still retain volume sales in the 21st century. However, the majority of the new breweries in the US are small breweries and brewpubs, who as members of the Brewers Association are termed "craft breweries" to differentiate them from the larger and older breweries.

The most common style of beer produced by the big breweries is American lager, a form of pale lager; while the small breweries, influenced by Michael Jackson, Charlie Papazian, and Fred Eckhardt, produce a very diverse range of styles. Beer styles originating in the United States include American Pale Ale, steam beer and cream ale.

Celebrated American craft brewers, such as Lost Abbey, Green Flash, Sierra Nevada, Anchor, to the smaller Shorts, Cigar City and more feature.