This week Jake Keeler joins me to discuss the state of the US homebrewing industry and this year’s industry survey as well as how to make homebrewing fun again!
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- Today my guest is Jake Keeler. Jake is a former AHA governing committee member, and he is chair of the current Industry panel. He also works at BSG, a major wholesale provider of beer brewing equipment and ingredients.
- We discuss the 2018 Homebrew Industry survey which is published annually – it is a survey of mainly retail home brewing outlets in the US.
- Jake provides a few highlights from the survey
- We discuss some of the long term trends in US homebrewing including the slow decline in sales which started a few years back.
- Another trend we cover is the substantial move from extract to majority all grain brewers which continues.
- Jake explains the sale of beginner kits and which have been declining a bit, but also how many brewers are coming directly into all-grain.
- We talk about the “Amazon effect” and the continued growth of large online retailers at the expense of some small suppliers.
- We cover a few other topics such as wine making kits from the survey and Jake provides his summary.
- Jake shares his thoughts on another topic – which is simply “making homebrewing fun again”.
- He gives his closing thoughts.
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Thanks to Jake Keeler for appearing on the show and also to you for listening!
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Great podcast! Our shop participates in the annual survey. Great to hear from Jake Keeler!
Great episode!