tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post3004694472540643748..comments2023-11-02T07:13:53.064-07:00Comments on Beervana: In Britain: Cask Ale v. CraftJeff Alworthhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-78883778635483546772015-10-13T08:25:46.044-07:002015-10-13T08:25:46.044-07:00You seem very much invested in being the authority...You seem very much invested in being the authority on UK beer, AC, and I'm more than willing to admit that I am not the best authority. Still, a lot of your "facts" are opinion and unsupported, and some of your facts are bent just to support a bias. Like mentioning West Coast brewery figures, when California lags on a per-capita basis. Were you to mention only Oregon and WA, that Jeff Alworthhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02930119177544342495noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-50338140795700113782015-10-12T17:46:04.902-07:002015-10-12T17:46:04.902-07:00Sure there's a lot going on, but the tradition...Sure there's a lot going on, but the traditional styles still represent the core of what most (not all) breweries offer. You also have to remember the sheer number of breweries in the UK - on a per capita basis we have 2.5 breweries for every one in the US. The West Coast may be the centre of US brewing, but the UK has around 60% more breweries than CA+OR+WA with around 30% more population (acnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-89157382679991372032015-10-12T17:45:49.490-07:002015-10-12T17:45:49.490-07:00"the vast, vast majority of it is mass market..."the vast, vast majority of it is mass market lager. Ales were supplanted a generation ago in their native country"<br /><br />That's overstating it. In the ontrade ales have never gone below 30%-ish of beer, even if much of that was keg ale (most of which is industrial rather than cutesy "crafty" beer). That includes a lot of restaurants, bars, clubs etc which only have acnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-53550214529033112442015-09-29T01:58:22.000-07:002015-09-29T01:58:22.000-07:00The situation in the UK by the 1970s was probably ...The situation in the UK by the 1970s was probably not much different from the US at that time. CAMRA formed to protect Real Ale. The US, years later, started the so-called craft beer movement. That a US brewer finds "American" style beer in London is not a great surprise nor is it a very accurate observation.<br /><br />For example, I was at the Old Brewery a few years ago with a friendmikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18391986396999558718noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21271644.post-29833529216532180172015-09-23T13:12:13.566-07:002015-09-23T13:12:13.566-07:00I've never understood the zero sum approach co...I've never understood the zero sum approach commentators often take with situations like this. "X is getting popular, therefore Y must be about to become extinct." It's nonsense. When you see how much pub territory the big breweries like Marston's and Greene King have there's no way their bread-and-butter beers are going to die out. <br /><br />Is it because David The Beer Nuthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14105708522526153528noreply@blogger.com