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The Real Cost of Poor Quality Brewing
According to the Brewer’s Association, active breweries in the United States hit a new high of 3,040 facilities in 2014. This record-setting number encompasses brewpubs, nano-, micro-, and macro-breweries. That’s an increase of over 200 new breweries in one year. Below is an area graph that represents all of the Breweries in the US per…
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More Alcoholic, More Caloric, & Less Bitter: Six Years of Craft Beer Trends
Introduction Equipped with 6,300 beers tested at Oregon BrewLab between 2018 and 2023, I sought to determine the yearly changes on key beer metrics: alcohol (ABV), Calories (cal/12oz) and International Bitterness Units (IBU). Using this dataset, I intend to provide data visualizations for six years of craft beer trends. General market sentiment suggests consumers are…
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