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Small-scale brewing grows in popularity

Updated on 10 September 2009

By Rags Martel

The big manufacturers may be shutting breweries but it seems that making beer is proving a big draw on a smaller scale.

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More than 70 microbreweries were set up in the UK last year and there are now more than at any time since the second world war.

And it is not just men with beards and pot bellies who are getting a taste for real ale.

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