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RE: 🍻📅 Beer47 Weekly #9: Craft beer success, smoky beer, vocabulary, & more
It's XXXX Bitter is made by Castlemaine Perkins, who is owned by Lion, who is owned by Kirin. XXXX Bitter is about as corporate as it gets. It also seems like Australia is inundated by Lion tied houses keeping the new local breweries out of most bars. It's rather unfortunately.
Very much so! All the 'old' brands started by German & Irish immigrants back in late 1800s long gone to corporate vultures with Cartlon United being the first back in the 70/80s vacuuming up brands.
Startups flourishing in UK while in Germany ancient family-owned brauhaus have never gone out of fashion
Hemp is gaining a foothold while Hops flourish