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14-01-2014, 10:14
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You always hear it when a small brewery wins Champion Beer at GBBF, murmurings from those at larger breweries who wonder how such a tiny outfit is going to supply the demand that winning will inevitably bring. When Kelham Island (http://www.kelhambrewery.co.uk/) won with Pale Rider they dealt with this enviable problem by contracting out part of the brewing to Ridley’s. I think it’s happened with other small breweries. I was reminded of this issue when I came across this paragraph in the course of research I am doing on the International Brewing Competition (http://www.brewingawards.org/).

‘Brewers are ultra-conservative… and they object to comparing their wares against each other; besides beer is not an article which admits of competitive exhibition, its value depending so much on individual tastes; furthermore our large brewers object to bring their beers into competition with small brewings (brewers), which however excellent as samples cannot possibly be produced on a manufacturing scale for the prices at which they have been quoted.’

Sounds familiar doesn’t it? Except that this comes from the Brewers’ Guardian (http://brewers%27%20guardian/) October 14, 1879, embedded in an item on the forthcoming National Beer Exhibition and Market to be held at the Agricultural Hall, Islington (ironically, 129 years later Beer Exposed (http://boakandbailey.com/2008/09/beer-exposed/) was to be held at the same site). Nothing really changes does it?


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