17 Craft Beer Predictions for 2017

Are you into predictions? Some are, some aren’t. It’s sometimes interesting to see what people working in the industry think will happen over the course of a year. Rob Burns, one of the founders of Everett’s Night Shift Brewing and president of the Massachusetts Brewers Guild, had 17 things he had thoughts on. Here they are:

1. Consumers will have an epic year
2. Lines will fade
3. Brewery closings
4. More distribution companies will launch
5. Growlers will die
6. Paralysis will shift consumer choice
7. Freshness
8. Outside influence
9. Even more attention
10. Session beer
11. Too many hops
12. Fruited IPAs
13. Back to basics
14. Juicy
15. Small brewers band together
16. Taprooms will boom
17. Trump

To see what he thinks will happen under each of these headings, read more at bostinno.streetwise.co.

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