{"id":16735,"date":"2017-03-15T09:26:15","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:26:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/?p=16735"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:32:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T16:32:55","slug":"san-diego-businesses-make-list-of-2016-top-50-u-s-craft-brewing-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/2017\/03\/15\/san-diego-businesses-make-list-of-2016-top-50-u-s-craft-brewing-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"San Diego businesses make list of 2016 top 50 U.S. craft brewing companies"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Today, the Brewers Association<\/strong><\/a> released its annual set of lists of Top 50 Breweries from the last calendar year. The rankings are based on beer sales volume, and broken into two lists\u2014Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies and Top 50 Overall U.S. Brewing Companies. The latter includes the likes of Anheuser Busch and MillerCoors as well as former craft-brewing interests that no longer qualify as craft breweries under the BA\u2019s definition, such as Lagunitas Brewing Co. and locally based concern Ballast Point Brewing.<\/p>\n

The Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies list includes three San Diego County businesses\u2014the same ones that have graced the list for the past several years. Escondido\u2019s Stone Brewing <\/strong><\/a>is the highest ranked at #9 (they are listed at #17 on the Overall U.S. Brewing Companies list), with Green Flash Brewing Co.<\/strong><\/a> rising four\u00a0spots from the year prior to #37 (#46 on the Overall list) and Karl Stauss Brewing Co.<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0ascending five spots to take its place at #41.<\/p>\n

D.G. Yeungling & Son, Inc. retained the top spot on the Craft Brewing Companies list, followed (in order) by Boston Beer Co., Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing Co., Gambrinus, Duvel Moortgat USA, Bell\u2019s Brewery, Deschutes Brewery, Stone and Oskar Blues. The top 10 for the Overall list was as follows: Anheuser-Busch, Inc.; MillerCoors; Pabst Brewing Co.; D.G. Yuengling & Son, Inc.; North American Breweries; Boston Beer Co.; Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.; New Belgium Brewing Co.; Lagunitas and Craft Brew Alliance. Ballast Point registered at #13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Today, the Brewers Association released its annual set of lists of Top 50 Breweries from the last calendar year. The rankings are based on beer sales volume, and broken into two lists\u2014Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies and Top 50 Overall U.S. Brewing Companies. The latter includes the likes of Anheuser Busch and MillerCoors as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":16736,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,1],"tags":[1353,1581,1561,52,376,442,675,391,1259,2632,2483,79,1962,61,1439,1473,1474,1034,1637],"class_list":{"0":"post-16735","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-beer-news","8":"category-san-diego-beer-beverage-news","9":"tag-sdbeer","10":"tag-anheuser-busch","11":"tag-ba","12":"tag-ballast-point","13":"tag-beer","14":"tag-brandon-hernandez","15":"tag-brewers-association","16":"tag-craftbeer","17":"tag-escondido","18":"tag-green-flash-brewing","19":"tag-indiebeer","20":"tag-karl-strauss","21":"tag-millercoors","22":"tag-mira-mesa","23":"tag-san-diego","24":"tag-stone-brewery","25":"tag-stone-brewing","26":"tag-top-50-breweries","27":"tag-west-coaster","28":"entry"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/ba_logo.png?fit=278%2C337&ssl=1","wps_subtitle":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdtr4y-4lV","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16735\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archives.csusm.edu\/westcoastersd\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}