How to Invest in Craft Beer

If you've been to a bar or liquor store in the last decade or two, you've probably noticed some changes in the beer selection. Craft beer has been on the rise as thousands of brewers opened for business in the past few decades. As fans of the small-batch brews like to tell it: In the dark ages (the 1980s), there was only Bud and Bud Light and maybe Michelob, if you were lucky.

But a boom in small-scale (a.k.a. craft) brewers saved the taste buds of drinkers across the nation by promoting styles such as India pale ales, sours, and porters, which have since become commonplace in bars and liquor stores.