BREWED BOY Words Jo Denbury Photography Katharine Davies
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am going to be honest about this: I know very little about beer, save for the well known brands from when TV advertising was all the rage and which I generally drift past in the supermarket. This summer, when I was standing in the giant tent at a festival faced with a board of names for what seemed like a million different beers and my husband was mouthing ‘what do you want?’ at me from the front of the queue, my mind froze. So, when I was asked to interview George White of Brewed Boy there was a small gulp of panic. I needn't have worried of course. Who knew brewing beer could be so much fun!? George is one of the creative brewers who have been part of the craft beer revolution sweeping Great Britain over the last eight or nine years. These micro-breweries have upended the status quo of mass produced beer to such an extent that they are proving a threat to the big boys, and rightly so. The movement began in America, no doubt when prohibition gave birth to a nation of home-brewers, most creating ‘hooch’ of dubious quality. By the '70s, craft beer had emerged from its fug of a home-brew hangover and was starting to take itself seriously. >
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