Raising the Bar (Business‪)‬

It may not be enough to send Budweiser's Clydesdale horses out to pasture, but beer drinkers increasingly are getting hopped up on brews other than Bud, Miller and Coors. While overall beer sales held steady in the United States last year, sales of craft beers - made by small, independent breweries - rose more than 8 percent, to $7.6 billion from $7 billion in 2009, according to the Brewers Association in Boulder, Colo. They made up 7.6 percent of all U.S. beer sales, up from 6.9 percent in 2009.