Brewers Association: Craft beer hit 12.2 percent market share in 2015

BOULDER – Craft beer kept chugging along in 2015, upping its market share of the overall beer industry to 12.2 percent by volume.

Given the gap between national numbers and those in individual states like Colorado where the craft boom is particularly pronounced, craft brewers figure to have a lot of room for growth yet in many parts of the country.

The Boulder-based Brewers Association on Tuesday morning released several 2015 metrics for the craft beer industry, including market share.

Craft brewers produced 24.5 million 31-gallon barrels of beer in 2015,…