Yours for Good Fermentables ™: Data mala cerevisiae
From What’s Brewing, the newspaper of the Campaign for Real Ale, October 2008 issue:
Pub closures across Britain have accelerated to five a day during the first half of this year, according to new figures.
Pubs are now closing at the rate of 36 a week. The current closure rate is 33 per cent up on 2007. A total of 1,409 pubs closed for the last time during 2007.
From the same issue:
While we should be pleased that real ale is declining slower than the rest of the beer sector as a whole, it is still in decline — which is something which should still concern us.
Across the pond, we here in the US have a wealth of beers available to us, from across the nation and around the world. Enjoy this bounty of good beer.
But ultimately: drink local, drink fresh. Local beer —all things being done well— will be the freshest beer you can obtain. So, support your local brewery: it’s a small business in your community. And if the beer isn’t as good as it should be, drop in and tell them.
You can’t do that with the behemoths.