JCBBQ this is nothing recent, it’s been going on nation wide since the 90’s. You just waited until now to discover craft beer! 
Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Anchor and a few other breweries sorta paved the way for alternatives to the mass market bond stuff from Coors/Miller/Anheiser Busch/Budweiser. Some of the small brewers have been bought out by the large guys, but it opened American taste buds to a wider variety of beer than in prior decades. Here we have 10 breweries along with a few small brew pubs in a ‘metro’ area of just 250,000. Most of the local breweries started with home brewers who grew into making it. Business.
This, from Wikipedia, is interesting:
At the end of 2013, there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries.[1] In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.[2] The U.S. state with the highest number of craft breweries per capita is Vermont, with 1 brewery for every 24,067 people.[3]
Sam Adams, Sierra Nevada, Anchor and a few other breweries sorta paved the way for alternatives to the mass market bond stuff from Coors/Miller/Anheiser Busch/Budweiser. Some of the small brewers have been bought out by the large guys, but it opened American taste buds to a wider variety of beer than in prior decades. Here we have 10 breweries along with a few small brew pubs in a ‘metro’ area of just 250,000. Most of the local breweries started with home brewers who grew into making it. Business.This, from Wikipedia, is interesting:
At the end of 2013, there were 2,822 breweries in the United States, including 2,768 craft breweries subdivided into 1,237 brewpubs, 1,412 microbreweries and 119 regional craft breweries.[1] In that same year, according to the Beer Institute, the brewing industry employed around 43,000 Americans in brewing and distribution and had a combined economic impact of more than $246 billion.[2] The U.S. state with the highest number of craft breweries per capita is Vermont, with 1 brewery for every 24,067 people.[3]
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