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What Is Micro Brewing?

When you are in the beer brewing circles you have probably heard of micro brewing. If you have never heard of it, here you will learn what really micro brewing is.

To make the explanation very simple, micro brewing is most of the time refered to a beer that is homebrewed or that is brewed in small pub in your local area.

The real term “micro-brewing” was first usedn in the United Kingdom around the 1970′s. In that time they used it to describe very traditional beer called cask ale and to call smaller batches that made their own beer.

For very long period of time micro brew was used to characterize only the smaller brewery and how much volume of their beer they produced.

For example:
Beer breweries that produced less than 15,000 beer barrels per year were characterized as micro breweries.

But today micro brewing became so popular that you can see this term to be used all over the world, which decribe small breweries offering very unique beer flavor that is brewed to service small areas.

When you will talk to some beer connoisseurs, they will quickly tell you that beer that is brewed in these micro breweries is often times the best tasting beer. It is due to the freedom they have in experimenting with special beer recipes.

When you taste beer that is made in micro breweries, you will soon recognize it’s distinct flavor and you would even feel that this beer is much richer than beer brewed in big breweries.

Micro brewing became so popular that large number of people are starting their own micro brew at the comfort of their own home. I can almost guarantee that if you do a bit of search, you will find at least two or three micro breweries in your neighnorhood.

These folks are very passionate about making their own brand of beer and for you it will be great opportunity to talk to people with the same interest as you have. The best part of these groups is that they always experience with new brews and the tasting is one of the best experiences you can have.