craft beer

noun

Beer of the kind made by a craft brewery.

Meanings

nouncraft beer (countable and uncountable, plural craft beers)

plural craft beers

  1. countableuncountableBeer of the kind made by a craft brewery.

    You'll need a ride to work off the double-fisted bar food and good craft beers.

    2010, Lew Bryson, Pennsylvania Breweries, page 305
    1 more example

    Craft beer has, also, become big business – it is even included by the Office of National Statistics in the basket of goods used to calculate inflation in the UK –[…]

    2016 March 24, Jon Henley, “The aggressive, outrageous, infuriating (and ingenious) rise of BrewDog”, in The Guardian, →ISSN

Translations

Chinese Mandarin 精釀啤酒 /精酿啤酒, 工坊啤酒
  • 精釀啤酒 /精酿啤酒 (jīngniàng píjiǔ)craft beer
  • 工坊啤酒 (gōngfáng píjiǔ)craft beer
German Craftbier
  • Craftbiercraft beer
Japanese クラフトビール
  • クラフトビール (kurafuto bīru)craft beer
Polish piwo kraftowe, piwo rzemieślnicze
  • piwo kraftowecraft beer
  • piwo rzemieślniczecraft beer
Cite this entry
APA

craft beer. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/craft%20beer

MLA

“craft beer.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/craft%20beer. Accessed November 4, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “craft beer,” accessed November 4, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/craft%20beer.

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