You should know what happened to the Craft Brew House in Sarnia

A lot of people ask us what the difference is between a craft brewery, a microbrewery, and a microbrewery, and whether or not brewing non-alcoholic beer changes the definition.

To answer the latter question, no matter what you’re brewing - be it kombucha, wine, beer, or even non-alcoholic beer, the definitions and answers are all the same (at least the beer store Sarnia, where we’re from) - but let’s focus on beer for the purpose of this post.

To reiterate, the difference between a non-alcoholic craft brewhouse and a non-alcoholic microbrewery is the same as the difference between an alcoholic craft brewery and an alcoholic microbrewery.

So what is the difference? A traditional brewery or “Microbrewery” produces millions of barrels of beer a year, while a microbrewery can produce no more than 15,000 barrels of beer a year. Microbreweries make “specialty beers”, the majority of which are usually consumed at the site of production. Lastly, we have craft breweries. Craft brew house falls somewhere between microbreweries and microbreweries by the definition of having to produce less than 6 million gallons of beer a year. The regulations around craft breweries are also a little stricter than those of both microbreweries and microbreweries, in that craft breweries must use traditional ingredients such as malts, barley, water, hops, and yeast. If a craft brewery wants to use other ingredients, it must be for the purpose of taste and not for the purpose of cost-cutting, whereas both micro and macro breweries can use additional ingredients to cut costs.

Beer store hours Sarnia Market Segments

The Brewers Association defines a craft brewer as a small and independent brewer. There are six distinct craft beer industry market segments: microbreweries, brewpubs, taproom breweries, and regional breweries, contract brewing companies, and alternating proprietors.

Microbrewery

A brewery that produces less than 15,000 barrels of beer per year and sells 75 percent or more of its beer off-site. Microbreweries sell to the public by one or more of the following methods: the traditional three-tier system (brewer to wholesaler to retailer to consumer); the two-tier system (brewer acting as a wholesaler to retailer to consumer); and directly to the consumer through carry-outs and/or on-site taproom or restaurant sales.

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