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  • noun Small-scale commercial brewing, as carried out in a microbrewery.

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Examples

  • In 1996, she moved to Fort Collins, Colo., a hub of the nascent microbrewing business at the time, taking a job as a cocktail waitress and trying her first beer love: Tommyknocker Maple Nut Brown Ale.

    Secrets of a Blue-Ribbon Brewmaster Nancy Keates 2011

  • Week after week, "Parks" draws a bead on our national obsessions and lets us laugh at them the way we probably should: the fads for microbrewing, interventions and so-vile-they're-hip band names e.g., Mouse Rat; the proliferation of crass and idiotic morning drive-time shows and the ways the media creates circuses of crises so it can report on them.

    Weird and Wonderful Nancy deWolf Smith 2011

  • Chapple-Sokol is the beer writer for foodie blog The Humble Gourmand, and describes his Obama microbrewing adventure here.

    The Audacity of Hops, A Microbrew For The President-Elect Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008

  • Chapple-Sokol is the beer writer for foodie blog The Humble Gourmand, and describes his Obama microbrewing adventure here.

    Archive 2008-11-05 Eddie Gehman Kohan 2008

  • Now, after a half century of Prohibition-era legal opprobrium, and the recent surge in microbrewing, the brewpub is reborn, opening at the rate of one per week across the country.

    Beer Lovers Going With The Flow 2008

  • Samuel Adams Brewing was able to capitalize on the popularity of its small-batch manufacturing to introduce the concept of “microbrewing” as distinct from the mass-produced beers, yet Miller Brewing failed to distinguish light beer as anything other than a brand extension.

    Killers Vs. Builders 2007

  • Taking inspiration from a growing Eastern Canadian microbrewing community, headed up by operations like

    Beyond Robson 2010

  • John Hickenlooper has been witness to a similar experience - although not as adverse as the current downturn - when as a geologist was caught up in the the oil bust of the 80's, he pursued the then fledging microbrewing industry and established a successful business. mikeg2 wrote: I think whats more alarming than Hick thinking this is in our heads, is, that he has no creative ideas coming forth.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local perisan 2010

  • John Hickenlooper has been witness to a similar experience - although not as adverse as the current downturn - when as a geologist was caught up in the the oil bust of the 80's, he pursued the then fledging microbrewing industry and established a successful business. mikeg2 wrote: I think whats more alarming than Hick thinking this is in our heads, is, that he has no creative ideas coming forth.

    Denver Post: News: Breaking: Local residenttroll 2010

  • Committed to learning more about the burgeoning microbrewing scene of the early-1990s, Farley scored an internship at James Page, a Minneapolis-based microbrewery.

    Express Milwaukee 2010

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