A brewery or beer brand is generally considered notable if it has been the subject of significant coverage in reliable, independent secondary sources.
Notable means "worthy of being noted" or "attracting notice." It is not synonymous with "fame" or "coverage" - that a beer brand exists, is available in the local supermarket, and is heavily advertised doesn't in itself mean it is notable. Please consider notable and demonstrable effects on culture, society, economies, or history. Large breweries are likely to have more readily available verifiable information from reliable sources that provide evidence of notability; however, smaller breweries can be notable, just as individual beer brands can be notable, and consistent standards should be applied to ensure that advertising budgets are not creating a bias favoring larger breweries and best selling brands.
A brewery or beer may be notable if it meets any one of the following criteria:
Decide which is more notable - brewer, company or product, and write the article with the appropriate focus. If the beer brand is the notable topic, then the article should be named after the beer, with the brewery redirected to the beer article.
In it is suggested that "An article about a place could be created if there's enough referenced information to make it encyclopedic. Otherwise, write the description to articles of parent areas."
Breweries are part of the local economy, as such a brewery could be mentioned in the nearest settlement article as per and .
A regional article in which breweries, both minor and notable, are discussed, would be appropriate. Breweries mentioned in the regional articles that develop sufficiently may be spun off in summary style into their own articles.
Creating stand alone stub articles on breweries or beer brands is not helpful. Find the nearest parent article in which to create a section, and then when the information has sufficiently grown, break it out in summary style.
The most popular test among editors for the notability of a topic is the "Google Test". This test is not seen as reliable by all editors. However, a brewery or beer that returns less than 100 hits may be unlikely to be notable.
A brewery or beer for which an editor is unable to write more than a stub (not including a list of beers or personal opinion on the flavour of a beer) is possibility not notable.