What has craft become?

When I stop and look back over my 23 years in the craft beer business and the nearly 30 years since I started homebrewing, it's a wonder I even recognize the industry today. Many of the staples of craft beer today didn't really exist back then. And many of our stalwarts of the early days are long gone. Through these changes, craft brewers have evolved and gone down paths many of us in the early days had rejected and sometimes outright rebelled against. It's a new world now. Lew Bryson has been around for quite a while as well and has some really great perspective on all of this in The Full Pint. 

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