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A Ranking of the Top 25 Cities to Open a Craft Brewery

There are more than 7,500 craft breweries now open in the United States, and the day’s of overall sales growth might be over. If you haven’t opened up your craft brewery yet, did you miss your shot? We don’t think so as local taproom-focused breweries and brewpubs continue to show a blueprint for success. A…

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There are more than 7,500 craft breweries now open in the United States, and the day’s of overall sales growth might be over. If you haven’t opened up your craft brewery yet, did you miss your shot?

We don’t think so as local taproom-focused breweries and brewpubs continue to show a blueprint for success. A big key to being a successful local brewery is choosing the right spot to be “local” in. To aid in this search, the folks at Digital Third Coast devised a scoring system to try and determine the top 25 cities for opening up that next great local brewery.

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