On: Craft Beer Is the Strangest, Happiest Economic Sto...

[rconti]

One interesting note: The article mentions Ronald Reagan's Justice Department's lax handling of antitrust regulations as leading to consolidation in the brewing industry, but the number of breweries was near its nadir before he was elected; in 1978 Jimmy Carter legalized home brewing, which was close to the very bottom in terms of number of breweries.

https://vinepair.com/wp-content/themes/vpcontent/images/brew...

[jsm386 → rconti]

That chart is from a broader article we published last winter: https://vinepair.com/map-american-craft-brewing-history/

More recently we put together a visualization of the 1977 data at https://vinepair.com/map-american-breweries-1977/

There's also a marked up breakdown by brewery from a 1978 FTC report below the visualization.

[rconti → jsm386]

That 1978 FTC data is fascinating! Thanks!