Costa Rica: Craft Beer Seminar Highlights Sector Growth and Progress

  |   Attaché Report (GAIN)   |   CS2023-0020
A July 29 seminar brought together roughly 100 Costa Rican craft brewers, retailers, restauranteurs, and enthusiasts to promote new brewing products and training courses to further develop the Costa Rican craft beer sector. FAS/San José expects increased sales of featured U.S. products (including hop resin extract, malt, and other brewing inputs) over the next 12 months and will continue to work with importers and craft brewers to differentiate U.S. inputs in this small, but growing, craft beer market.

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