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OT: craft breweries in Ireland
Posted by Nick B. on 2016-08-26 01:35:54
Be careful with defining it! There are "craft" brewers in the UK producing proper cask beer. There is an Oxford English Dictionary definition somewhere, FWIW. Something like "beer with a particular character".

Anyway. Contrast the Irish figures with Oregon's: 22% of all beer consumed in Oregon is brewed in the state, and all the breweries in the state are some sort of brewpub, microbrewery, or microbrewery-grown-large. There are a couple that have been bought up by the gigamacroglobalbreweries, but the fact is, none of it is the Budweiser-Coors-Miller sort of sex-in-a-canoe American beer of the 70's. Something like 4 million people in the state, maybe 3 million.

I don't really have a point other than, watch out, Guinness! (?)
 
Followups:
     OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Barry on  2016-08-26 03:38:25
       OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2016-08-28 16:11:55
         OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Nick B. on  2016-08-29 00:30:58
           OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Andy H on  2016-08-29 01:31:43
             OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Barry on  2016-08-29 01:51:36
             OT: craft breweries in Ireland & Sam Smith's again by Nick B. on  2016-08-29 07:24:15
               OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Mark Andersen on  2016-08-29 09:20:42
                 OT: craft breweries in Ireland by Barry on  2016-08-29 11:08:28
               OT: craft breweries in Ireland & Sam Smith's again by Barry on  2016-08-29 11:10:56
               OT: craft breweries in Ireland & Sam Smith's again by Andy H on  2016-08-29 11:21:15
                 OT: craft breweries in Ireland & Sam Smith's again by Andy H on  2016-08-29 11:28:20
         OT: craft breweries in Ireland by FredW on  2016-08-30 20:25:05