That’s truly unique, and the lion’s share of that growth is thanks to its astoundingly successful flagship IPA, Truth. This hip Cincy brewery has done something that not a single other company of its generation could manage, now finding itself in the top 30 of the biggest craft breweries by volume.
In fact, of the top 50 craft brewers (via the Brewers Association definition), the most recently available data includes only 3 that were founded in the 2010s: Modern Times Beer, Revolution Brewing (whose Anti-Hero IPA we covered already), and Rhinegeist Brewery.Īnd the biggest of all of them, by a sizable margin? Cincinnati’s Rhinegeist, which is all the more incredible when you consider that they were actually founded in 2013. The 2010s, characterized first by rabid growth and then eventually by the slowdown of the craft beer market, showed that very few breweries founded in the past decade will ever likely have the chance to grow to powerful regional or national status, for a variety of reasons-the styles they focus on don’t scale well to mass production, there’s just too much competition, and the regional kingpins are dug in as deeply as they can in their trenches. The very nature of this series, which is focused on regional and national flagship beers, tends to imply breweries that have been around for a while. Click here to see all the other entries in the series.
#Rhinegeist mathlete series#
This essay is part of a series this month, coinciding with the concept of Flagship February, wherein we intend to revisit the flagship beers of regional craft breweries, reflect on their influence within the beer scene, and assess how those beers fit into the modern beer world.
0 kommentar(er)
