On Tap: 8 not-so-craft beers  Chris Morris/For the Star-Ledger
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rules of craft beer seem to always be changing. What counts as
craft and what doesn't? Some say it depends on this, some say it
depends on that, and others say who cares, so long as it tastes
good.  One question I get every now and then is this: does Sam
Adams (a brand of Boston Beer) still count as craft, or has it
gotten too big? According to the Brewers Association (BA), it's
still craft. The production limit for craft, according to the
BA, used to be set at 2 million barrels a year. But when Boston
Beer surpassed this limit, the BA raised the limit to 6 million
barrels.  Certainly other brands like Kona, which started out as
a brewpub in Hawaii using fresh and local ingredients, should
count as craft, right? Not exactly. Kona now belongs to the
Craft Brew Alliance, of which Anheuser-Busch has a 32.2% stake.
Just as the