Craft beer brewers in US want to bring taprooms to China

The taproom at Wibby's Brewery north of Denver was filled with the happy chatter of more than 100 locals on Saturday afternoon, while outside, in the bright Colorado sunshine, musicians were playing to another crowd.

"This is the future of the beer experience in America," said patron Josh Garner, 32, whose black Labrador retriever sat patiently by his side at the main bar, surrounded by tables filled with adults playing Monopoly and children drawing with their parents.

"We call it the taproom phenomenon," said Robert Pease, president of the Brewers Association, a unique craft beer voice in the US since 1978, when it started with only 42 members.