"Craft beer" gets used pretty loosely these days. Plenty of beers marketed as small, local, and independent are actually owned by the same handful of multinational companies that make the mainstream lagers on the bottom shelf. If you care about who you're actually supporting when you order a pint, it's worth knowing how "independent" is actually defined in Australia, and which familiar names don't quite meet the mark. This isn't about gatekeeping good beer. Big companies can