re: Why can you not find Yuengling in south Louisiana?

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They are one of the original post-prohibition craft breweries and haven't sold out at all. They even loan a lot of money to startup craft breweries.

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I'm aware. And i'm not saying they are the devil. I'm saying considering them into the same categories as small start ups isn't apples to apples. They don't have the same issues as the smaller guys. I'm not trying to be a hipster and say "they should have stayed small, bigger means they suck". I'm saying in the brewery industry, they hardly share the same concerns as most of the 4000+ other breweries. And they aren't the only ones.

They are considered craft because they've asked to have the definition of barrels produced changed and the BA obliged. The definition used to be

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Annual production of 2 million barrels of beer or less (

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Now it is 6 million barrels. This would eliminate other breweries as well as being craft. Maybe, if they want to constantly redefine the definition, they should just create another definition for the larger "craft" breweries. I'm not saying Sam Adams is equivalent to the BMC breweries. But hey also aren't equivalent to the majority of other breweries out there.

Thus the reasoning, why calling Sam Adams craft is a bit disingenuous.