Cornhole Drove The IPA Boom
Sanctioned US Cornhole Tournaments vs US Craft Breweries
Cornhole tournaments and craft breweries climbed together — because they are, functionally, the same thing. You cannot have a hazy double IPA without somebody yelling "FOUR" twenty feet away. The bag goes in the hole, the beer goes in you.
“No new craft brewery has opened in twelve years without a cornhole board placed within thirty feet of the bar. It is law.”
— Dr. Hopps Bagsworth, Brewery Anthropologist
How we paired this data
Stupid Correlations scans hundreds of public time-series datasets and surfaces pairings whose Pearson correlation crosses a comically high threshold. Sanctioned US Cornhole Tournaments and US Craft Breweries hit r ≈ 100% (positive) over the years they overlap — the algorithm flagged it, and we kept it because the headline practically wrote itself.
Crucially, no causal model was tested, no covariates were controlled for, and no peer reviewer was consulted. This is the statistical equivalent of finding two people with the same birthday at a wedding and writing a paper about destiny. Real research adjusts for confounders; we adjust the caption for laughs.
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