Home-brewing: How to get a head in the White House. London real ale renaissance: Surge in brewery numbers. 27 December 2012Last updated at 01:00 ET By Andy Dangerfield BBC News, London Logan Plant brews in the kitchen of Brew & Que restaurant, in east London In the cramped kitchen of an east London bar and restaurant, Logan Plant is brewing. He holds a tube in both hands, from which hot water is pouring into a stainless steel grain-filled vat and there is a sweet smell in the air. "We've blown a few things up," he quips. "There have been a lot of angry chefs. " You may have heard of his dad - Led Zeppelin frontman Robert Plant. "He loves his ale," Logan Plant says. Duke's Brew & Que restaurant, in Hackney, is the nerve centre of Beavertown brewery, which was set up this year by Mr Plant, 33, originally from the West Midlands, and Byron Knight, 42, from Los Angeles.
They named their brewery Beavertown as this is the old cockney name given to its location - De Beauvoir Town - which was famed across Victorian London for its local breweries and ale houses. 'Homebrew recipes' The way things were: Craft beer: now served cool. If you like beer, be happy. For real beer is suddenly making fresh inroads into restaurants. Today, the upmarket burger chain, Byron, launches a refreshed craft beer list which will include beers from breweries as diverse as Huddersfield's Magic Rock and San Diego's Stone.
Pride of place will be given to Byron Pale Ale, brewed for the chain by Camden Town Brewery. Byron is not alone in its interest in innovative craft beer. From venues that blur the distinction between bar and restaurant, such as Bath Ales' new Bristol pizza joint, Beerd and London's Mason & Taylor to mainstream restaurants such as Hawksmoor and Jamie Oliver's Barbecoa, it's increasingly easy to eat in places that also serve great beer. Moreover, this feels different to the restaurant world's previously tentative, sporadic engagement with beer. To put it bluntly, for better or worse, craft beer is cool. To me, that thinking is all wrong. Does beer and food matching matter? As for glassware, meh! Byron’s Craft Beer Menu | Camden Town Brewery. Sipsmith Independent Distillers - Artisanal spirits of uncompromising quality.
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Many new breweries are small affairs launched by drinkers who, like their customers, reject the bland offerings and "lad" marketing spewed out by industry giants already losing their fizz. Melissa Cole, a beer expert, blogger and the author of Let Me Tell You About Beer, says global concerns such as AB InBev (Budweiser, Stella Artois and Beck's) and SABMiller (Peroni, Grolsch) are late to the bar in the race to catch up with changing tastes. "A younger generation is looking for heritage, provenance and flavoursome beer," she says. "They're real-ale drinkers who are more adventurous and affluent. Smart brewers are offering them something classy and interesting. Brewers don't understand it – it doesn't fit into their world of pasteurised, micro-filtrated mass production.
" Brits work up a thirst for US ale - Business News - Business. The image of his face, with eyeballs virtually enveloped by extraordinarily droopy eyelids, was doctored to turn his brow into a pointy triangle. More than a century later, he remains the mascot for the Wisconsin-based brewery, his weathered face now the logo on Point's beer labels. Nicholas's mug will soon be seen in pubs and supermarket shelves across the UK as the Worcestershire-based American Craft Beer Company starts importing World Beer Championships silver medallist Point Black Ale and the Vienna-style Point Amber Lager. American craft ale, which is often strong, extremely hoppy and carbonated, now accounts for about 9 per cent of the $96bn (£60bn) US beer market. These small batch-produced ales have become hugely popular in the UK, with sales increasing 86 per cent last year as grocers started stocking bigger craft brands such as Sierra Nevada and Brooklyn Brewery. C&C set for London C&C already has a secondary listing in London though the bulk of its shares are traded in Ireland.
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