Smithsonian: US at ‘historical point’ for breweries, most ever 5,301

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The Smithsonian Institution’s newly named beer director declared Tuesday that “we are at…a historical point in American beer history” with a record number of craft breweries ever.

Theresa McCulla, the historian of the American Brewing History Initiative at the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History, told the national Craft Brewers Conference meeting in Washington that an industry that began after World War II in California now reaches every corner of the United States.

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