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Ellis Jones, College of the Holy Cross and Daina Cheyenne Harvey, College of the Holy Cross
(THE CONVERSATION) A new seal began to appear on bottles and cans of American craft beer in 2017. It both certifies that the beer came from one of the nation’s independently owned and small-scale breweries and signals that these upstarts are fighting back against the corporations trying to co-opt their authenticity and craftiness.