A good brewery doesn't need multiple locations, just fair and reasonable ways to market and sell their products.
BrewDog (another Scottish brewery - if you want good micro-brewery beer go to Scotland, see also: Orkney, Tryst and Williams Brothers) make 77 Lager (4.9% abv), hopped with Amarillo and Motoeka, it's closer to a US pale ale than Czech pilsener, but the fruity aroma and punchy bitterness make this a favourite fridge-filler to drink straight from the bottle, especially with pizza.
Despite the breweries' good intentions, the beer has, unsurprisingly, caused some controversy.
"A building that's good for a brewery is rare," Mr. Burford said.
Ms. Morris, 61, said that after she was laid off as a lawyer, she and her husband, 63, helped their son start a brewery, and that "he was having a good time with his brewery, so I thought I could do a distillery".
811 NW Wall Street, +1 541 330 9093, pizzamondobend.com Bend's breweries serve good, solid food, but with burgers, fries and pasta to the fore, subtlety isn't always in abundance.
Yet, amid the gloom, new breeds of brewer and publican are multiplying like yeast cells.According to Iain Loe of CAMRA, a group dedicated to promoting good beer, 99 commercial breweries opened in Britain in the year to June 2010, boosting the total to 840.
The ales up this way are better than most, so a good option is a brewery tour – Theakston and Black Sheep are the obvious names, but a more unusual choice is the smaller Richmond Brewery Company (richmondbrewing.co.uk) in the grade II-listed former railway station on the edge of the Dales.
The Brewery Tap is good for Sunday lunch.
There's lobster, too, if your wallet is up to it, and good beer from Hadrian Border Brewery.
