Will the account of the Dancing Man – a brewhouse featuring 1000-year-old pillars from a Spanish galleon accomplish you thirsty or leave you foaming at the mouth?Craft beers and micropubs live in the space of the beard and the red trouser: are they really a thing? Or are they a thing only believed in by people who don’t get out enough to recognise what is and what isnt a thing?This week,the Campaign for Real Ale (Camra) came out with the definitive respond: they are, indeed, or a Thing. Now 70% of pubs serve real ales. Micropubs occupy grown from zero 10 years ago (Camra’s estimate) to an expected 200 by the end of this year. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com