Hints and tips:
...Colourful, craft beer-inspired cans of House of Funk coffee can be purchased at Novella to take home....
...Last month we arrived anticipating a warm fire and a pint of real ale only to find the pub closed up, recently sold by the brewery to a property developer....
...Even the hipster craft-brewery, Bridge Road Brewers, closes its kitchen at a modest 8.30pm, so you have to head out early if you want to get a taste of their much-loved pretzels and pizzas....
...With the rise of craft beers and breweries, the company has faced increased competition and declining volume levels....
...But it would be a mistake to conclude that the mega brewers cannot rise to the challenge posed by local craft breweries....
...While only a handful of operators brew the world’s biggest brands, there are thousands of small breweries making craft beer, in Europe and the US....
...There are more than 2,000 breweries in the US, but most are small and private....
...The woes of middle America weighed on SABMiller as US lager sales at the UK-listed brewery dipped further in the last three months of 2011....
...It provides bicycles (pick up a picnic lunch at the Oakville Grocery and peddle out among the vineyards along Dry Creek)....
...By the 1970s, breweries were being shuttered and some of Belgium’s most distinctive recipes disappeared from drink lists....
...But in the long run, with imported and craft beers nibbling at their market, Miller and Coors have nowhere to go....
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