craft brewery

noun

plural craft breweries

: a brewery that produces specialty beer in limited quantities : a brewery that produces craft beer

Raleigh, once a city with just a handful of beer … producers, has emerged as a thriving hub for craft breweries with more than 40 taprooms …

—Baron James

At many craft breweries, there is a different food truck outside nightly.

—Jim Morrison

Word History

First Known Use

1981, in the meaning defined above