Bold micro brews fill beer pallets

Embarrassingly for the big brewers such as Anheuser, Miller Brewing and Molson Coors, craft brewers are booming as they profit from a demand for beers to carry bold flavours.

One-third of the roughly 1,400 US craft brewers lifted sales by more than 10 per cent last year, according to the Brewers Association.

Craft beers make up only 3.5 per cent of the total beer market but have grown steadily over the past decade, notching up a record 7.2 per cent sales growth rate last year on average.

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