However encouraging the last couple of decades may have been for consumers trying to access buy interesting beers, around 90% of the beer drunk in the world comes from a narrow range of relatively dull styles …

The same obsessive streak that a brewer must apply to make an industrial lager is also needed, to completely different ends, when the aim is to create a lager brewed, fermented and conditioned in the older …

Back in 1975 the number of ales produced worldwide by commercial brewers was between five and ten thousand. Today, there is somewhere between a quarter and half a million. Ale brewing is where the craft beer revolution happened.