Austin’s craft beer world is getting smaller: New breweries launch with hyper-local focus


As beer production ramps up across the country, it's getting more local.

Many of the nation's biggest craft beer producers saw their production flatten last year, according to data from the Brewers Association. Demand is slowing for many large, regional craft brewers while more microbreweries pop up and churn out a few hundred barrels a year — not a lot, relatively speaking, in the beer business.

That can be seen among recent brewery openings in the Austin area. The Brewer's Table, which debuted…

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