Defining Craft Beer
The Brewers Association in America defines craft beer as small, independent and traditional. Small means producing less than six million barrels of beer a year. Independent means that less than 25 percent of the brewery is owned or controlled by a beverage alcohol industry member that is not itself a craft brewer. And traditional means brewing beers with just malt or adjuncts such as oats, rye and wheat that add, rather than lighten, flavor.