For the last decade, the production and sale of craft beers in the Republic of Croatia has been increasing, and they have established themselves as a popular brand, especially among young consumers and the female population. Although it is a craft production, the production process of craft beer itself has same basic production stages which in principle do not differ from the production of industrial beers. In order to achieve a specific taste of an individual craft brewery it is necessary to master the theoretical foundations of industrial beer production, only then it is possible to achieve a specific taste as a characteristic of an individual craft brewery. The specificity of craft beer is achieved through the use of certain non-standard raw materials, types of yeast, and minor or major modifications in the production process (usually in the process of hops and fermentation itself). This is facilitated by the fact that craft beers are made by a top-fermentation process that facilitates intervention in the production process. The aim of this final work is to give a comparative overview of the production process for industrial and craft beers with special emphasis on certain points in the production process (such as grinding, hops, fermentation and maturation), modification of which is necessary in order to achieve the specific taste of a particular type of craft beer, and even the specific taste of the same type of beer but from a particular craft minibrewery.