The grandfather of the modern microbrewery movement, Fritz Maytag, once mused that "one day, there will be a brewery in every town in America," recalled Steve Hindy, co-founder of Brooklyn Brewery.
On a recent coast-to-coast road trip, Hindy stopped through a handful of the nation's 9,200 breweries and found Maytag's prediction may have nearly come true.
"I can't tell you how proud it made me to see the quality of the brewing and the commitment to community," Hindy said Tuesday during the Craft Brewers Conference in Minneapolis. "We all worked hard to make that happen."
