What is a Craft Beer? Knowing the beer name & brand used to be enough but sadly this is not the case anymore.<\/p>\n
Big beer like Anheuser-Bush InBev (AB INBev) has set a course to fool uneducated beer drinkers.<\/p>\n
Breweries such as Kona Brewing, Goose Island Beer, Devils Backbone, Wicked Weed Brewing and Karbach Brewing, Red Hook, Omission Brewing, Appalachian Mountain Brewery & Cisco Brewers<\/em> … just to name a few.<\/p>\n These companies are directly and\/or indirectly involved with AB InBEV through the Craft Brew Alliance.<\/p>\n So what is considered a Craft Beer?\u00a0According to the American Brewers Association<\/a>, craft beer is one that is created by a \u201csmall and independent brewer.\u201d Simply put, craft beer is a beer that has been independently brewed in a facility that does not produce more than six million barrels of beer per year. This leads to an alternative brewing and fermentation process. Using a traditional base of malted barley, the craft brewer thoughtfully adds different ingredients to come up with an inimitable flavor for the brew.<\/strong><\/p>\n There is also a special rule for ownership, in that, at least 75% of the brewery must be owned by someone who is actually an independent craft brewer.<\/p>\n This rule guarantees that mega-breweries cannot take over craft breweries, thus maintaining the unique status of the smaller brew and allowing for special techniques.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again, knowledge is power. Learning more about things you care about it’s always a good idea. You don’t have to become a beer snob to make an educated decision. When it comes to beer<\/a>, you just have to know enough because you may think you are drinking a craft beer but you might not be. Knowing the difference it’s key.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What is a Craft Beer? Knowing the beer name & brand used to be enough but sadly this is not the case anymore. Big beer like Anheuser-Bush InBev (AB INBev) has set a course to fool uneducated beer drinkers. AB InBev have disguised themself as mock craft breweries by creating brands that resembles craft beer…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":44695,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wprm-recipe-roundup-name":"","wprm-recipe-roundup-description":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3844,68],"tags":[3843],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44695"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/beeralien.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}