GrandOiseau wrote:Of course dead beer comes in many guises. From your Fosters and Carling right through to your small batches of locally produced microbrewery beers. And again this is another controversy CAMRA has found itself in because many people think the latter is better than the mass produced real stuff. A can of lightly gassed but brewed lovingly with quality ingredients microbrewery beer is better than say a pint of the now ubiquitous Doom Bar they say.
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well again... microbrewery is a term that merely means a brwery is small. Older far more tradttional breweries often now have in effect a microbrewery/very sm,all palnt to try expereimental brews on. And so all that means is a brwery is producing at most 10 barrels at a time 9say) rather than 1000 barrels.
I certainly dont read "microbrewery" to mean "quality" . Just "beer brewed in small amounts". Which may be a blindingly good, or woefully sh1t3 as much larger breweries various outputs. Most micro breweries round "these parts" all produce live real ale in firkins etc for hand pull dispense. One of them also kegs for nitro keg "bag in a keg" dispense. One of those microbreweries is absolute swill that we dont even send an invitiation to send (ier sell0 us a firkin for our annual beer festival (circa 100 beers), one is so small they really ionly produce for their own micropub, another is very very standard twig water stuff - nothing wrong with it, justt nothing any different from a billion other breweries. Another is more towards waht many may call the "craft" end of the amrket, sells both hand pull and kegged dispense and rebrabded and refoxussed as its original tradtional based beers just couldnt be moved/sold anywhere outsided of a very lcoal area... because they were no different from a million other tradtional (and very well made it must be said) beers . Why would a pub 100 miles away buty a firkin r two of a standard traditional bitter from them, when there are 20 breweries closer also selling a standard bitter?
so - just summaruising, WADR Id suggest thinking "micro brewery" is somewhow supposed to be indicative of soemthing that produces allegedly "finer" beer than doombar or even worse swill, is incorrect. all it mens it cant produce a million gallons a year
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