It's a boom time for British beer
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Is it beer o'clock yet? The number of independent breweries operating across the UK is currently at a 70-year high and, with this in mind, we've rounded up the best options for a locally produced, independently pulled pint.
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I can brew a pint of beer that would put most pubs in a five mile radius to shame,variety too what's your tipple ? stout,or perhaps an IPA or how about a Belgian farmhouse saisson, Bavarian wheat beer to your liking, or maybe just a good old fashion English bitter. Cost anywhere between 35p and 70p a pint depending on the ingredients, however whilst it gives me a warm glow to know I am not paying the man, come to sell it legally and I wouldn't get any profit out of £2.50 - £3.50 a pint.
So how is it I can pick up a 500ml can of Euroe fizz for a £1 at my local shop, and I know for a fact he gets it from the cash and carry and not some back street dodgy del boy, simple tax paid in the E.U
The plight of the old working class british pub in the format we once knew and loved it, is now doomed. Dozens more of them close each week. Often to be then bought up and turned into Asian restaurants or cheap private rented accommodation for DSS claimants.
What with the smoking ban, high taxation on pub alcohol prices and the flood of cheap supermarket wine and beer. The extinction of the once beloved boozer is sadly now firmly set in stone.
I suppose that's what comes with progress really. Nothing lasts forever.
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