Every year since 2007, I've been running an annual feature called OBF by the numbers. Welcome to edition number nine. For extra special fun, I'm going to highlight some of the changes in the decade since I started brewing. But first, let's have a look at this year's rundown. As always, the bolded text refers to 2015, while the text in the (pare ...
Oregon Brewers Fest By the Numbers (2015)
July 27, 2015
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Every year since 2007, I’ve been running an annual feature called OBF by the numbers. Welcome to edition number nine. For extra special fun, I’m going to highlight some of the changes in the decade since I started brewing. But first, let’s have a look at this year’s rundown. As always, the bolded text refers to 2015, while the text in the (parentheses) are last year’s.
- Years since inception: 28
- Total beers: 105 (88)
- Total breweries: 89 (87)
- States represented: 16 (14)
- Countries represented: 4 – US, Canada, New Zealand, Netherlands (2 – US, Netherlands)
- Percent Oregon: 50% (58%)
- Percent California: 10% (14%)
- Percent Washington: 7% (11%)
- Percent New Zealand and Netherlands: 14%
- All Others: 19% (17%)
Total styles (by broad category): 33 (25)
Lagers: 10 (6)
IPAs: 21% (24%)
__– Standard IPA: 6 (10)
__– Session IPA: 6 (N/A – 1?)
__– Double IPA: 4 (4)
__– CDA: 0 (1)
__– Fruit IPA: 1 (4)
__– White IPA: 2 (3)
__– IPL: 2 (N/A)
By style:
- IPAs: 22 examples (21)
- Fruit/ Fruit Wheats: 17 (11)
- Pale ale: 15 (1
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Source: Beervana
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