Exploring the rise of Mexico’s craft beer industry [] Mexico News Daily (MND)

Published October 19, 2023

Most of the world knows about Corona, Tecate and Dos Equis. These and other brands have made Mexico the world’s number one exporter of beer. However, over the past three decades, the country has developed a craft beer industry, which may have a similarly bright future.

A little history
Depending on your point of view, craft beer in Mexico is either centuries old or a recent phenomenon. In 1544, Alfonso de Herrero founded a brewery near Mexico City, but it failed a few years later. In the colonial period beer was an imported luxury good, and massive consumption only began in the 19th century when German immigrants established breweries. In the 20th century, many of these breweries became consolidated as the two brewing powerhouses of today: Grupo Modelo and Cervecería Cuauhtémoc Moctezuma (now legally Heineken México).

Beer brewed before mass-production is of course “craft beer” (cerveza artesanal in Spanish), although the term is modern.

Establishing “modern” craft beer in Mexico

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