Craft defined, v437865.3

Tom Cizauskas does a fair amount of rehashing in ongoing discussion of “what’s craft beer?” that I’m promising myself I won’t get involved in today, but at the very end manages to put into words one of those hard to verbalize youknowitwhenyouseeit things. It’s the joy of the beer itself (and the joy of brewing … Read more

Don’t these people understand the term ‘craft beer’ has no meaning?

And these are just the headlines. – Beer on demand: Craft breweries like Piece, Half Acre start delivery service – Bordeaux wine for craft beer drinkers – What’s it like when your startup craft brewery gets bought by Anheuser-Busch? – Hopsteiner picks its top hops for craft brewing professionals – Hopping mad about craft beer … Read more

About the movement in Craft Beer Movement

BOOK REVIEW: “The Unbearable Nonsense of Craft Beer” Is the “craft beer movement” a social movement, a political movement, an aesthetic movement, any sort of movement? Tom Acitelli uses the term, or simply the movement, on more than a third of the pages in “The Audacity of Hops.” He does not categorize this movement, and … Read more

Craft beer: The 1986 definition

Perhaps Vince Cottone was not the first to use the words “craft” and “beer” together, but in his 1986 “Good Beer Guide: Brewers and Pubs of the Pacific Northwest” he put definitions of “craft brewery” and “true beer” into words when nobody else did. Cottone — who today runs Sound Systems, a company that offers … Read more