WASHINGTON, Sept. 25, 2015 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S. Census Bureau:
SUDSY CELEBRATION
Profile America — Friday, September 25th. For those who believe that beer is proof that a higher power loves us and wants us to be happy, a great chance for bliss is found in Denver. The 2015 Great American Beer Festival continues today in the Colorado Convention Center. Some 49,000 people are attending this latest sold-out celebration, which began in 1982 in Boulder and moved to Denver in 1984 to accommodate the burgeoning interest. Building on past performance, the festival includes one-ounce samplings of 5,500 beers from more than 1,300 breweries. Meanwhile, thousands of beers are engaged in competition for festival medals in about 90 different categories of brew. America's nearly 1,700 brewing establishments employ about 27,000 people in the art of beer making. Profile America is in its19th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
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Organizer: http://www.greatamericanbeerfestival.com/press/festival-history-facts-figures/
Number of Breweries/NAICS 31212: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=BP_2013_00A1&prodType=table
Breweries employment/NAICS 31212: http://factfinder.census.gov/faces/tableservices/jsf/pages/productview.xhtml?pid=ASM_2013_31GS101&prodType=table
Profile America is produced by the Center for New Media and Promotions of the U.S. Census Bureau. These daily features are available as produced segments, ready to air, on the Internet at http://www.census.gov (look for "Multimedia Gallery" by the "Newsroom" button).
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SOURCE U.S. Census Bureau
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