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In 2025, craft beer accounted for nearly **** of the total U.S. retail beer market. After a decline in 2020, craft beer had the largest share of the beer market in its time in 2021, at **** percent. Since then, the market share has hovered around **** percent.

Beer country

In the 2000s, new craft breweries were not introduced in the United States very often, compared to the late 2010s. In 2024, there were over *** craft brewery openings, while only ten years earlier, that number was just over ***. Craft or microbreweries could be found all over the United States, especially in states such as Pennsylvania, California, and New York. Each of these states accounted for over *** establishments in 2025. With almost establishments, California had the largest collection of craft breweries by far.

Leading craft beer brands

With the large number of craft breweries located in the United States comes a large variety of U.S. craft beer brands, such as Sierra Nevada, and Blue Moon. The leading craft beer of 2025 was a Belgian-style wheat ale by the name of New Belgium, which generated over *** million U.S. dollars of sales.