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Craft beer industry enjoys resurgence after flat years

4:27 PM Mon, Mar 27, 2006 |
Jack Perry    Email

PORTLAND, Maine -- Like most small breweries, Gritty McDuff's went through a lull as fast-rising sales of craft beer leveled off in the late 1990s.

But Gritty's and the craft beer industry as a whole are now enjoying a resurgence as sales are growing at their fastest pace in a decade.

Production of craft beer - those specialty brews typically made in small regional or local breweries - last year grew by 9 percent, the biggest jump since 1996, when the microbrewery craze of the '90s was still going full tilt. Mainstream beer sales fell slightly.

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The Associated Press

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