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Dear Client:"I think we're beyond the point where everyone is rising in craft," Brewers Association director Paul Gatza said at this year's Craft Brewers Conference "Paul and Bart Show," as it's commonly known.As we've reported, craft volume was only up 6% last year. The large regional brewers, which comprised almost 18 million barrels of the 25 million segment, were only up less than 1%.But smaller breweries and brewpubs were up double digits. In fact:BREWPUBS WERE UP NEARLY 15% last year,