Bud Light Crushes Rivals In Sales

Beverage Industry via The Atlantic:

 and in the craft beer segment, Samuel Adams leads the revolution:

So Bud Light sells a case of beer for almost every man, woman and child in the country (294 million versus 315 million).  Almost $6 billion is spent on that shit.  It also sells almost as many cases as Sam Adams brings in dollars.  Six of the top eight brands sold are from Budweiser?  That's domination.  Maybe advertising works.

More on the craft brewery market, including the 50 largest craft brewers, after the jump:

Boston Beer Co., which shipped about 3.4 million barrels in 2013, a 25% increase over 2012, ranks No. 5 among all U.S. brewers, behind Anheuser-Busch, MillerCoors, Pabst Brewing Co., and D.G. Yuengling & Son Inc., according to the association's overall Top 50 brewing list.
Just below Boston Beer Co., on the craft brewers Top 50 were Sierra Nevada Brewing Co., New Belgium Brewing Co., and the Gambrinus Co., which owns Spoetzl and Bridgeport breweries, as well as Pete's Brewing. Those four brewers have held the top four spots over the last five years.
Biggest climbers on the craft brewery list include Ballast Point Brewing Co., up 17 points to No. 29, Southern Tier Brewing Co., up 6 points to No. 31, Sweetwater Brewing Co. and Left Hand Brewing Co., each of which moved up five spots to Nos. 19 and 38, respectively. Firestone Walker Brewing Co. and Founders Brewing, both rose four spots to Nos. 16 and 26, respectively.

Top 50 craft brewing companies
(Based on 2013 beer sales volume)

1. Boston Beer Co. (Boston)
2. Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (Chico, Calif.)
3. New Belgium Brewing Co. (Fort Collins, Colo.)
4. Gambrinus (San Antonio)
5. Lagunitas Brewing Co. (Petaluma, Calif.)
6. Deschutes Brewery (Bend, Ore.)
7. Bell's Brewery, Inc. (Galesburg, Mich.)
8. Duvel Moortgat USA (Kansas City, Mo. & Cooperstown, N.Y.)
9. Brooklyn Brewery (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
10. Stone Brewing Co. (Escondido, Calif.)
11. Matt Brewing Co. (Utica, N.Y)
12. Harpoon Brewery (Boston)
13. Dogfish Head Craft Brewery (Milton, Del.)
14. Shipyard Brewing Co. (Portland, Maine)
15. Abita Brewing Co. (Abita Springs, La.)
16. Firestone Walker Brewing Co. (Paso Robles, Calif.)
17. Alaskan Brewing Co. (Juneau, Alaska)
18. New Glarus Brewing Co. (New Glarus, Wis.)
19. SweetWater Brewing Co. (Atlanta)
20. Great Lakes Brewing Co. (Cleveland)
21. Anchor Brewing Co. (San Francisco)
22. Long Trail Brewing Co. (Bridgewater Corners, Vt.)
23. Summit Brewing Co. (St. Paul, Minn.)
24. Oskar Blues Brewery (Longmont, Colo.)
25. Full Sail Brewing Co. (Hood River, Ore.)
26. Founders Brewing Co. (Grand Rapids, Mich.)
27. Rogue Ales (Newporr, Ore.)
28. Victory Brewing Co. (Downingtown, Penn.)
29. Ballast Point Brewing Co. (San Diego, Calif.)
30. Ninkasi Brewing Co. (Eugene, Ore.)
31. Southern Tier Brewing Co. (Lakewood, N.Y.)
32. Cold Spring Brewing Co./Third Street Brewhouse (Cold Spring, Minn.)
33. Flying Dog Brewery (Frederick, Md.)
34. Odell Brewing Co. (Fort Collins, Colo.)
35. Stevens Point Brewery Co. (Stevens Point, Wis.)
36. Bear Republic Brewing Co. (Cloverdale, Calif.)
37. Lost Coast Brewery and Cafe (Eureka, Calif.)
38. Left Hand Brewing Co. (Longmont, Colo.)
39. CraftWorks Restaurants & Breweries, Inc. (Chattanooga, Tenn. & Louisville, Colo.)
40. Breckenridge Brewery (Denver)
41. Karl Strauss Brewing Co. (San Diego)
42. Blue Point Brewing Co. (Patchogue N.Y.)
43. Sixpoint Brewery (Brooklyn, N.Y.)
44. BJ's Chicago Pizza & Brewery, Inc. (Huntington Beach, Calif.)
45. North Coast Brewing Co. (Fort Bragg, Calif.)
46. Uinta Brewing Co. (Salt Lake City, Utah)
47. Allagash Brewing Co. (Portland, Maine)
48. Saint Arnold Brewing Co. (Houston)
49. Gordon Biersch Brewing Co. (San Jose, Calif.)
50. 21st Amendment Brewery (San Francisco)