Which city in the United States has the most micro-breweries?
Measuring the Industry Measuring employment and payroll using standard industry definitions presents a challenge due to the blurring lines of restaurants, drinking places, and breweries in Oregon. 2004 offers the most recent data. That year, there were 13 business units employing 327 covered workers in the breweries industry. The payroll of workers covered by unemployment insurance totaled $12,743,731. Employment in drinking places exceeded 5,500, while full-service restaurants employed about 55,000. Most brewpubs would be counted in one of these two categories. In addition to the production of beer, there were another 1,872 workers in 2004 employed at 41 business units in the beer and ale merchant wholesalers industry, with a total payroll of $69,251,278. By this time, Widmer Brothers was producing about 200,000 barrels of beer per year. The Oregon Brewers Guild is a trade organization formed in 1992 to promote craft beer brewed in Oregon. Here are a few facts they publish: * There ar
