MicrobreweriesUK Microbreweries: Small Independent Micro Brewers
The microbrewery term and trend originated in the United Kingdom in the late 1970s to describe the new generation of small breweries which had a focus on producing traditional cask ale. Though originally used to reflect the size of the breweries it gradually came to reflect an alternative 'micro attitude' and approach to brewing of flexibility, adaptability, experimentation and customer service. The microbrewery term and trend spread to the United States in the 1980s where it eventually was used to indicate a small brewery that produces fewer than 15,000 barrels of beer annually.
Micro or craft breweries have adopted a different marketing strategy than large, mass-market breweries, offering products that compete on the basis of quality and diversity, instead of low price and advertising. Their influence has been much greater than their market share (which amounts to only 2% in the UK), indicated by the fact that large commercial breweries have introduced new brands intended to compete for some of the microbrewery market, and when this failed, they have invested in or bought some microbreweries.
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| Black Sheep Brewery - http://www.blacksheepbrewery.com/ Brewery, started by a member of the Theakston family. List of pubs serving its ale, guide to beers, online ordering, history of the brewery, magazine, fan club and information about the visitor centre in Masham, North Yorkshire, England. - Read more |
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| Milton Brewery - Cambridge - http://www.miltonbrewery.co.uk/ Brewing several ales which are distributed throughout more than 100 pubs in the Cambridge area. Brewery tours. - Read more |
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| Atlas Brewery - http://www.atlasbrewery.com/ Founded in January 2002 when Atlas Brewery took possession of a hundred-year-old building on the banks of the River Leven in the West Highland village of Kinlochleven - Read more |
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| Barngates Brewery - http://www.drunkenduckinn.co.uk/ Located within the Drunken Duck pub near Ambleside, Cumbria. Products include Cracker Ale, Tag Lag, and Chesters Strong and Ugly. - Read more |
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| Bath Ales - http://www.bathales.com/ Situated between Bath and Bristol, with a full range of styles and strengths. Available in bottles or micro-casks. - Read more |
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| Black Isle Brewery - http://www.blackislebrewery.com/ Independent company producing a range of bottled beers. Located in the heart of the Scottish Highlands. - Read more |
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| BrewDog Beer - http://www.brewdog.com/ Scottish brewery based in Fraserburgh. Brewing a variety of ales, details and prices. - Read more |
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| Cairngorm Brewery - http://www.cairngormbrewery.com/ Based in Aviemore, Inverness-shire, Scotland. Rolled out its first barrel in September 1997. Details of products, online shop, and information about booking a tour. - Read more |
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| Colonsay Brewery - http://www.colonsaybrewery.co.uk/ A Scottish microbrewery specialising in traditional lager and bottled beer from Colonsay Island on the West Coast of Scotland. Background, company personnel profiles, descriptions of beers, information on the island of Colonsay, and a blog. - Read more |
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| The Coniston Brewing Company Ltd. - http://www.conistonbrewery.com/ Attached to the Black Bull pub in Coniston, Cumbria. Brewers of bottled and draught Bluebird, Champion Beer of Britain 1998, and several other draught beers. - Read more |
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| Cox's Yard - http://www.coxsyard.co.uk/ Themed attraction at Stratford-on-Avon, Warwickshire, with a micro brewery on site, bars and brasserie, and gift shop. History of Stratford exhibition. A development by the Charles Wells Brewery. - Read more |
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| Cropton Brewery - http://www.croptonbrewery.co.uk/ North Yorkshire based, producing a range of cask and bottle conditioned ales. Visitor centre. - Read more |
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| Crouch Vale Brewery - http://www.crouch-vale.co.uk/ Essex company producing a range of cask conditioned ales. - Read more |
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| Durham Brewery - http://www.durham-brewery.co.uk/ County Durham company producing a range of real ale in cask and bottle. Online shop. - Read more |
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| The Felinfoel Brewery Company - http://www.felinfoel-brewery.com/ Located in Felinfoel, Carmarthenshire, Wales. History, list of ales, contact details, news, online shop and e-cards. - Read more |
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| Goose Eye Brewery - http://www.goose-eye-brewery.co.uk Brewing several cask ales and two bottled ales from its base in Keighley. - Read more |
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| Hambleton Ales - http://www.hambletonales.co.uk/ North Yorkshire brewer listing bottled and cask conditioned ales. Brewery visiyts, mail order shopping. - Read more |
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| Heather Ale - http://www.heatherale.co.uk/ Producing cask and bottle ales - Fraoch, Grozet, Ebulum and Alba from its base in Glasgow. - Read more |
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| Heather Ale Ltd. - http://www.fraoch.com/ Brewer of historic Scottish ales. Importers, history of beer in Scotland and the brewery, and merchandise. - Read more |
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| Hebridean Brewery Company - http://www.hebridean-brewery.co.uk/ Brewery opened in the Hebrides in January 2002 - Read more |
