The article discusses the evolving landscape of craft beer, highlighting a shift towards traditional lagers and low ABV options that appeal to moderation-focused consumers. It details how breweries are enhancing the drinking experience to encourage patrons to drink on-site and interact socially, utilizing unique serving methods. Led by beer experts and writers, the piece profiles a mix of new and established breweries that are making significant contributions to the craft beer scene in 2025—celebrating local ingredients and innovative brewing practices.
After so many premature predictions it became a running joke, it seems like we are finally in the age of the lager, and plenty of breweries are skewing their tap lists to celebrate all things traditional, easy-drinking and low ABV.
The experience for consuming these beers matters, too. Eager to motivate people to get off of their couches and drink on-site, breweries are leaning into conversation-starting practices, from using Czech side-pull faucets to tapping English ales on cask.
To help compile this list of the breweries making waves in 2025, beer writers, podcasters, educators and brewers weighed in. Some of these breweries are brand-new, some of them are decades old, but all of them are leading the way on exciting changes in the beer landscape.
This shift from wide distribution to a more niche focus is still growing, and breweries are appealing to local-minded drinkers through house-grown and -foraged ingredients.
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