{"id":2941,"date":"2015-08-25T16:07:44","date_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:07:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/adamchandler.beer\/?p=2941"},"modified":"2015-08-25T16:07:44","modified_gmt":"2015-08-25T20:07:44","slug":"linked-sam-adams-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-the-craft-beer-category","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2015\/08\/25\/linked-sam-adams-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-the-craft-beer-category\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2605 Linked: &#8220;Sam Adams is about to be kicked out of the \u2018craft beer\u2019 category&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='__iawmlf-post-loop-links' style='display:none;' data-iawmlf-post-links='[{&quot;id&quot;:6198,&quot;href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/www.marketwatch.com\\\/story\\\/sam-adams-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-the-craft-beer-category-2015-06-25&quot;,&quot;archived_href&quot;:&quot;http:\\\/\\\/web-wp.archive.org\\\/web\\\/20231226055432\\\/https:\\\/\\\/www.marketwatch.com\\\/story\\\/sam-adams-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-the-craft-beer-category-2015-06-25&quot;,&quot;redirect_href&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;checks&quot;:[{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2025-11-04 17:41:20&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-01-06 17:39:08&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-19 13:48:26&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-02-24 08:18:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-03-03 02:08:43&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 18:36:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206}],&quot;broken&quot;:false,&quot;last_checked&quot;:{&quot;date&quot;:&quot;2026-04-06 18:36:37&quot;,&quot;http_code&quot;:206},&quot;process&quot;:&quot;done&quot;}]'><\/div>\n<p>via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/sam-adams-is-about-to-be-kicked-out-of-the-craft-beer-category-2015-06-25\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Marketwatch<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>However, it changed its barrel-production limit from 2 million to 6 million in 2010 to accommodate the growth of Boston Beer Co. and its Samuel Adams brand. And the trade group changed the \u201ctraditional\u201d portion of its definition last year to include pre-prohibition brewers including D.G. Yuengling &amp; Son and August Schell, which have brewed with maize (once deemed non-traditional by BA) throughout their existence.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Good. I wouldn\u2019t care so much about them remaining a craft brewery if it wasn\u2019t Boston Beer Company a few years back that legally had the craft beer classification changed so they could remain a craft brewery. They would have been a macro 5 years ago if not for that change.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"via Marketwatch: However, it changed its barrel-production limit from 2 million to 6 million in 2010 to accommodate&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2016-03-17T02:07:21Z","apple_news_api_id":"7c0538ed-75a9-412e-95c5-04298f81e2bd","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2016-03-17T02:07:21Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/AfAU47XWpQS6VxQQpj4HivQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"csco_singular_sidebar":"","csco_page_header_type":"","csco_custom_appearance":"","csco_disable_excerpt_posts_layout":false,"csco_page_load_nextpost":"","csco_post_video_location":[],"csco_post_video_location_hash":"","csco_post_video_url":"","csco_post_video_bg_start_time":0,"csco_post_video_bg_end_time":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[173],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-beer-news","7":"cs-entry","8":"cs-video-wrap"},"apple_news_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pb3IC4-Lr","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":501,"url":"https:\/\/adamchandler.me\/blog\/2012\/07\/25\/beer-haul-mid-june-end-of-july-2012\/","url_meta":{"origin":2941,"position":0},"title":"\u2605 Beer Haul: Mid-June \/ End of July 2012","author":"Adam Chandler","date":"July 25, 2012","format":false,"excerpt":"I haven't done one of these since my return from Belgium. 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