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- noun
Small-scale commercial brewing , as carried out in amicrobrewery .
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Examples
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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
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Taking inspiration from a growing Eastern Canadian microbrewing community, headed up by operations like
Beyond Robson 2010
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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
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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
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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
peekaboo78 commented on the word microbrewing
This is how you make tiny beers.
February 9, 2026