A study by the Brewers Association in Boulder, Colo., shows the market for handmade beers grew 12percentt in volume and 16percentt in dollar sales last year nationally.
They will take home a handmade, engraved beer barrel from Theakstons, as well as the £3,000 award money.
For starters, we tried the onion rings (handmade and beer battered), the fried pickles and fried jalapeno chips ($4.95 each).
The winner of the £3,000 award, which comes with a handmade, engraved oak beer cask, will be revealed on the opening night of the Theakston Old Peculier crime writing festival in Harrogate on July 21.
This farm-to-table indie is a shrine to handmade sausages, craft beer and much more.
Along with interacting with artists, collectors and the museum's curators, guests can enjoy cuisine from local restaurants like Wine Gallery, Side Door, Sabatino's, Sapphire Laguna and Simply Sweet Cakery, cocktails by Tito's Handmade Vodka and beer from Noble Ale Works.
With every goal that was scored (the final score was 2-2), beer and handmade confetti rained down from the stands.
Distant relatives of Bob's who still live in Nine Mile are interviewed, smoking a spliff, sipping on beer in a handmade rickety wooden island bar, smiling so big you wonder what secret they know about living that you don't.
But in some ways that is part of their appeal, underlining the handmade, artisanal nature of their beers.
And handmade macaroons, slow-proved bread, local beer, cheese and charcuterie, and a wealth of hairy, grubby, misshapen vegetables that taste of what a hardcore foodist would call terroir.
