The New Top 50 Craft Breweries

Dear Client: It's that list that brewers pore over ravenously. The Brewers Association's tally of the Top 50 U.S. Craft Brewing Companies just hit for 2014. Our back-of-the-napkin notes are not exhaustive, but this is what we noticed in the lineup. This newest list is topped by Yuengling, which for the first time is considered a craft brewer under BA definition. That of course makes Boston number two. Minhas, also now considered a craft brewer under recently revised BA definition,