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Three Floyds leaps to become the nation’s 24th largest craft brewer; Revolution inches up to 39th

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AdvertisementBy Chicago TribuneMar 30, 2021 at 2:17 pmAfter years of seeming content to stay small, Three Floyds Brewing continued its rapid growth in 2020, becoming the nation’s 24th largest craft brewer, the Brewers Association said Tuesday.The iconic 25-year-old brewery in Munster, Indiana, has undertaken aggressive growth in recent years, including the launch in 2019 of . Long available primarily in the Midwest, Three Floyds has expanded distribution in recent years to a total of 18 states, including New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Pennsylvania.AdvertisementFor years, Three Floyds never factored into the rankings of the Brewers Association, a Colorado-based industry trade group. But it has climbed the list every year since 2017, from 45th that year, to 39th in 2018, to 31st in 2019.Two other Chicago-area breweries also landed in the Brewers Association’s annual tally of the nation’s largest breweries for 2020: Revolution Brewing inched up from 40th in 2019 to 39th; and Kings &amp; Convicts, the tiny Highwood brewery whose owner by buying San Diego’s Ballast Point Brewing in late 2019, landed at No. 30 (due almost entirely to production of Ballast Point beer).AdvertisementBoth and have permanently closed brewpubs in or around Chicago during the COVID-19 pandemic after both closures were initially announced to be temporary. Revolution reopened its Kedzie Avenue taproom on a limited basis in late February, and its Milwaukee Avenue brewpub will remain closed until April 7.The nation’s 10 largest craft brewers according to the Brewers Association include D.G. Yuengling &amp; Son in the top spot followed by: Boston Beer Company (which owns Dogfish Head); Sierra Nevada Brewing Co.; Duvel Moortgat (which owns Firestone Walker, Boulevard and Brewery Ommegang); Gambrinus; CANarchy (which owns multiple breweries including Oskar Blues and Cigar City); Bell’s Brewery; Artisanal Brewing Ventures (which owns Victory, Southern Tier and Sixpoint); Stone Brewing; and Deschutes Brewery.To be defined as craft beer by the Brewers Association, a brewery must make less than 6 million barrels of beer annually and cannot be owned by a large beer company that isn’t a craft brewer.Such a definition excludes large brewers making craft beer, such as Chicago’s Goose Island, . Advertisement

AdvertisementBy Chicago TribuneMar 30, 2021 at 2:17 pmAfter years of seeming content to stay small, Three Floyds Brewing continued its rapid growth in 2020, becoming the nation’s 24th largest craft brewer, the Brewers Association said Tuesday.The iconic 25-year-old brewery in Munster, Indiana, has undertaken aggressive growth in recent years, including the launch in 2019 of . Long available primarily in the Midwest, Three Floyds has expanded distribution in recent years to a total of 18 states, including New Jersey, Rhode Island, Vermont and Pennsylvania.AdvertisementFor years, Three Floyds...

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