If you are a small brewer, nailed on to the side of a pub and you only have one or two brew days a week, then I guess no one would argue if you called yourself a craft brewer. You made a beer with BrewDog - it looked fairly hands on - but was there any point where you saw a production line, a packing line that was taking thousands of beers out of the factory and off to retail? Surely, and this is a rather simplistic method of viewing it, but once your production becomes big enough to meet retail demand, and that you do most of your "brewing" through computerised technology, you kind of lose the craft element to your work? I can get all of those in most bars in Leeds, a couple of supermarkets in Leeds - are they really craft breweries? I found a map on line of the Top 50 Craft Breweries in the US - it includes the likes of Brooklyn, Sierra Nevada and Anchor. They did it innocently enough, but then I couldn't stop myself jumping on it - how can you use craft in a context of a product sold in a supermarket? Someone I know referred to Meantime as a craft brewery yesterday.
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