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“I'm a pro brewer who literally cannot stand homebrewing since I've gone pro,” emails Jen Nad from Montreal. Though many cottage brewers-turned-pro still enjoy relaxing and making a homebrew, an informal Facebook poll shows many more no longer have the time or inclination. Today, a majority of new brewery owners and their brewers come straight from homebrewing. Why take on the hassle and expense of brewing your own if you can so easily pick up the best beers from Belgium, Japan and around the block? All over the country, boutique and big-box retailers carry hundreds, if not thousands, of varieties. Now, two breweries open per day in America and the Brewers Association (BA) says three-quarters of Americans of legal drinking age live within ten miles of at least one of them. When homebrewing pioneers like Jack McAuliffe, Fred Eckhardt, Ken Grossman and Charlie Papazian fired up their hobby in the late 1970s (before Jimmy Carter legalized it in 1979), they usually did so to replicate beers they’d tried abroad and couldn’t get stateside. “Craft beer is so big now that everybody who used to homebrew to brew styles they couldn’t buy are like, ‘Screw it, I can just buy it, ’” says Jimmy McMillan, owner of the Philly Homebrew Outlet, who just opened a second location in an underserved neighborhood to leverage steeply declining sales at his original spot. Industry insiders attribute the slump to various factors but the one they can least ignore is the one that’s most counterintuitive: the popularity of craft beer itself. For all the predictions of a looming brewery shakeout, it looks like the homebrewing industry may actually suffer through it first.
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