An American craft brewery is a small, independent, and traditional brewery where small means a production of less than 6 million [US beer] barrels per year. [1]

An American craft brewery is a small, independent, and traditional brewery where small means a production of less than 6 million [US beer] barrels per year. [1] A US beer barrel seems to be 177.348 liters so that we get slightly more than 7 million hectoliters. The largest German brewery produced 5.5 million hectoliters in 2002. [2] So US small is German largest plus 25%? Or did I make a mistake, is there yet another barrel? In Germany you are considered a large brewery above 0.25 million hectoliters or 140,965 barrels. Also the world beer production seems to be just shy of 2 billion hectoliters per year, so you can produce 0.35% of the world production and are still considered small? That would also limit the number of non-small breweries to 286. [1] https://www.craftbeer.com/breweries/what-is-a-craft-brewery https://www.craftbeer.com/breweries/what-is-a-craft-brewery [2] https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großbrauerei#Gr.C3.B6.C3.9Fte_Brauereien_in_Deutschland https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Großbrauerei#Gr.C3.B6.C3.9Fte_...