Talk:Craft beer

message: You guys don't have a clue about craft beer ... —Preceding unsigned comment added by 66.31.251.164 (talk • contribs) 
Hey, now .. . someone has made a well-intentioned start on a topic that's of interest to me, and I'd think to you too, based on your post. I'd agree, though that this could use expansion and editing, although 'craft beer' is a loose enough term that there's sure to be a wide range of interpretations of what it means. I'd certainly like to see this page developed further, and I'll try to take some time to make some contributions myself in the near future. --Shorn again 20:56, 27 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Old comments

message: They are related and the terms are almost/sometimes are interchangeable BalfourCentre 13:20, 20 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge into Micro brewery 

message: Craft beer deserves a page in its own right. its only in the US where microbrewery and craft beer are interchangeable, in the UK for example we don't define "craft" in terms of a maximum number of hectalitres the brewery produces.
Py0alb (talk) 13:20, 8 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, see Talk:Microbrewery. Wbm1058 (talk) 19:45, 27 March 2013 (UTC)

text: I also agree. "Craft beer" should have its own section, and could be expanded greatly in order to cover craft beer in different countries. Prof. Mc (talk) 16:56, 10 May 2014 (UTC)

text: I also agree. It may come as a surprise to American readers, but ”craft beer" is a highly divisive subject among UK beer enthusiasts, with many seeing it as little more than a meaningless marketing concept. Few UK microbreweries use the term even now, while big companies like Greene King use it to describe undistinguished mass market session bitters, and I've even seen it used to describe keg lager in some PR material. The existing Craft Beer section doesn't cover this at all. --Ef80 (talk) 14:39, 1 August 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Unmerge from microbrewery proposal 

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message: This appears to be a very US centric article with a few minor mentions of Canada and Australia.
The UK has a large micro brewing industry, I am not well versed enough to write anything about it but I know they're everywhere in England. It is something I'm very jealous about.
Micro brewing isn't big at all over here in Ireland, we're stuck with the big brand stuff, Diageo or Bass brand pubs to a very large extent, but there's still a few.
http://www.whitewaterbrewery.com/ is my local oneConorflan (talk) 23:50, 30 January 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree; unless one makes the argument the term itself is US-specific, "microbrewery" could cover all the tiny, regional breweries (fast disappearing) throughout the UK, Germany, Belgium, Czech Republic, etc.--Chimino (talk) 03:55, 17 April 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Better Internationalisation 

message: It is awful to read five or more units of measure: gal, impgal, barrels, litres, hectolitres.
Is there any endeavour to improve that? -- Lberges (talk) 20:50, 7 September 2011 (UTC)
thread_title:  Units 

message: microbrewery and brewery
These articles are about the same thing.  The difference is industry semantics which is primarily recognized in the United States.  A brewery makes lots and lots of beer and is owned by a diverse company.  The other makes... well, amount of beer ranging from very little to lots of beer and is independently owned.  
In the article brewery, there are already brief explanations on the different types of breweries.  The information in microbrewery should be merged with brewery.  This will more accurately describe the global transformation of the brewing industry in the late 20th/early 21st Centuries.  DFS (talk) 18:57, 28 January 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: At any rate, the distinction is notable and appears in many sources, all that changes are the details of how "small" the amount of beer is. A "craft brewery" is a particular type of brewery that brews a more limited amount of beer and is mostly independently owned. In the U.S. anyway, most craft breweries that aren't Sam Adams make a lot less beer than the macro breweries. There can be a section at brewery offering a summary of the concept, but it's clearly noteworthy enough for a dedicated article.--Cúchullain t/c 21:33, 28 February 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I support this proposal. At the very least we need a short referenced article about what craft beer is and how it has become popular across the world in the last 5 year particularly. Do you want to start it? Py0alb (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Merge [[microbrewery]] and [[brewery]] 

message: At a time when Wikipedia is overwhelmed with a lengthy proposed mergers backlog, many of which are obvious content forks crying out for someone to just do it rather than tag it for someone else to take care of, I find this type of merger proposal and activity annoying. Craft beer was an independent article, albeit unsourced except for an inline link to the Brewers Association website. Rather than cleaning it up, it was redirected to Microbrewery 08:44, 4 October 2007, and content was merged with this edit. Then it was redirected to Microbrewery#Craft beer. The implication being that only microbreweries produce "craft beer." Alas, as yet Wiktionary doesn't define the term, but Merriam-Webster says it's "a specialty beer produced in limited quantities," while a  is a beer produced by a microbrewery.  Wiktionary agrees. There was a microbrew article, but it was merged to microbrewery. "A specialty beer produced in limited quantities" doesn't seem to rule out homebrewing, as "many people enjoy entering homebrew competitions, sometimes referred to as craft brewing." Nor would it seem to rule out a large brewery brewing "craft beer," provided the quantities were sufficiently "limited." Nonetheless, craft beer remained a sub-section of Microbrewery until this edit which renamed the section to Craft brewer, removed most of the merged content under the claim that it was original research, and changed the definition from  to 
In my opinion this second definition could also be considered as original research, and may be no better than the first:
*This is the definition of "American craft brewer," according to the Brewers Association
*The source does not claim that the Brewers Association coined the term. Did they try to register it as a trademark? I doubt it.
*A less Americanocentric definition should be located and used to supplement this definition, preferably a definition not provided by a trade association, but rather by by common usage.
The effect of changing the section from a discussion of craft beer to craft brewer after merging was deletion by redirection, as effectively Wikipedia no longer has an article on craft beer as Microbrewery, where  redirects, avoids mention of the topic. This situation needs fixed. – Wbm1058 (talk) 20:34, 25 March 2013 (UTC)
replies: text: I support this proposal. At the very least we need a short referenced article about what craft beer is and how it has become popular across the world in the last 5 year particularly. Do you want to start it? Py0alb (talk) 13:53, 28 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Maybe we should un-merge Craft beer 

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message: "Craft beer has fat-burning properties if you drink enough of it."
: ...Um, I'm going to remove that until we get a source.  Skiendog (talk) 15:12, 4 March 2016 (UTC)
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message: Why is there two paragraphs about how beer is packaged in the craft brewery segment?  It seems to me, the topic packaging doesn't belong there.  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Sengsational (talk • contribs) 15:28, 29 June 2016 (UTC)
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The result of the move request was: Moved to Craft beer. As said and provided in the request moves (RM) discussion, the Ngram stats for "Craft beer" seems to be way higher than any other alternatives here. On top of that, I see some consensus that finds the current title a bit clunky and long. However, I also see some consensus for Craft brewing as well, so it is possible that there could be a new RM for Craft brewing in the future. Please do note that "Per nom" comments without explanations carry very little weight. (non-admin closure)  Wikiexplorationandhelping (talk) 14:13, 2 October 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Craft brewery and microbrewery →  – This is just unnecessarily clunky. Craft brewery and microbrewery are rather synonymous from what I understand from the article. Though Craft brewery and microbrewery#Definitions has five definitions, not just the two in the title. And it's what these breweries produce in the end, which is usually called just 'craft beer', not 'micro beer'. Other options like 'craft beer industry', 'craft beer brewery' or even just the single 'craft brewery' is a better option, in my opinion. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 17:11, 18 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: I'm not sure if that's a good idea. The main difference between micro/craft and macro/big beer is the size of production. There's not a ton about the actual process. Still a better option than the title right now though! soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 17:08, 23 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed, there's not much about brewing in this article. If we end up at Craft brewing that would need to be corrected. We can also see from the ngram that Craft beer is used much more often in the literature. Ideally Craft beer would never have been redirected to Microbrewery in the first place but here we are "trying to make the best of it." Tammbecktalk 17:31, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

text: Craft brewery and microbrewery#Craft brewing and micro-brewing in Asia? We'll have to edit the actual wording of the article regardless, because it has craft brewing and micro-brewing in the section heading. And what are the differences in the brewing process? More small-scale, more labour intensive, smaller distribution pretty much. soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 18:04, 23 September 2022 (UTC)

text: I'm not sure what's your point. The referenced definitions at Craft brewery and microbrewery#Definitions make it clear that craft beer is defined as beer made by small businesses, not by big beer. What do you think the topic is? soetermans. ↑↑↓↓←→←→ B A TALK 06:13, 24 September 2022 (UTC)
replies: text: Small batch beer is not the same as beer made by a small company. Many megabreweries make small batch beer and call it "craft beer". The entire article is structured around a small brewery and not the the beer per se. Thus the article isn't an article about small batch beer, it is about the small brewers. -- 65.92.247.226 (talk) 10:28, 28 September 2022 (UTC)

text: ASUKITE 16:21, 1 October 2022 (UTC)
thread_title:  Requested move 18 September 2022 

message: It is likely a notable topic. See :wikidata:Q3640372 Piotr Konieczny aka Prokonsul Piotrus| reply here 03:01, 21 February 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Split [[brewpub]]?