In the UK, the term has become synonymous with small scale breweries operating under the UK Progressive Beer Duty threshold of 5,000 hls. The most common product is cask conditioned bitter. Breweries are often described by their production capacity or brew length, mostly ranging from 2 to 20 bbls (a brewer's barrel or bbl is 36 imperial gallons).
In the US, the American Brewers Association defines a "craft brewery" as "small, independent and traditional", and gives a production size of less than 6,000,000 US beer barrels (700,000,000 L) a year and can not be more than 24% owned by another alcoholic beverage company that is not itself a craft brewery.
Malaysia do not grant microbrewery licenses. What a pity! Perhaps we might have rambutan, or mangosteen beer to boast about to our foreign friends.
Singapore has some very nice microbreweries. There is one in Orchard Road by Paulaner Brahaus with a restaurant. Click here for website link
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| Paulaner Brahaus Microbrewery/restaurant - Singapore |
And there is RedDot Brewhouse & Restaurant in Dempsey (Singapore). Dempsey was previously an army barrack. Website link -click here
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| RedDot's spirulina beer |
Next beer posting: Health benefits of mircrobrews/craft beers
