Article posted Thursday, June 12, 2014 12:30pm

In honor of the Door County Beer Festival and Homebrewing Championship taking place Saturday, June 14, in Baileys Harbor, we present some beery facts.

24

Number of large non-craft breweries in the United States (a brewery with an annual beer production of more than 6,000,000 barrels – a barrel is 31 gallons).

119

Number of regional craft breweries (an independent regional brewery that has either an all-malt flagship or has at least 50 percent of its volume in either all malt beers or in beers that use adjuncts to enhance rather than lighten flavor).

413

Number of brewery openings in 2013 (304 microbreweries and 109 brewpubs).

1,237

Number of brewpubs (a restaurant-brewery that sells 25 percent or more of its beer on site; the beer is brewed primarily for sale in the restaurant and bar).

1,412

Number of microbreweries (a brewery that produces less than 15,000 barrels of beer per year with 75 percent or more of its beer sold off-site).

2,822

Total number of breweries that operated for some or all of 2013, the highest total since the 1870s.

110,273

Number of jobs craft brewers currently provide in the U.S.

14.3 billion

Estimated craft brewer retail dollar value in 2013.

15.6 million

Number of barrels craft brewers sold in 2013, up from 13.2 million in 2012.

Source: Brewers Association