"Small breweries" refers to smaller-scale beer production companies that typically produce beer in smaller quantities, often using traditional methods and focusing on quality and unique flavors. Full definition
«You have a psychological advantage when you can go into a morning meeting with suppliers or distributors, having tested various pricing assumptions the night before,» says Maytag, whose 15 - employee operation — one of the few surviving small breweries in the United States — produces 25,000 barrels of premium beer a year. (inc.com)
Prohibition had forced the vast majority of small breweries out of business, leaving mostly larger brands like Schlitz, Anheuser - Busch, and Coors in operation. (businessinsider.com)
About a generation after small breweries with flavourful beers stormed the oligopoly that controlled the beer sector, craft beers, many of them made in micro-breweries and distributed locally, have become frothy and surprisingly upscale competitors in an industry that traditionally functioned at the meat - and - potatoes end of the alcohol spectrum. (canadianbusiness.com)