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There are now more than 500 small craft breweries in Italy and several were on display at the Great British Beer Festival in London. They were promoted by leading beer writers Luca Giaccone (left) and Lorenzo Dabove, better known as Kuaska, and a long-standing champion of Italian craft beer

Added: Thursday, August 22nd 2013

Sophie Atherton is the first ever woman beer sommelier and in July she was given the prestigious award of Beer Sommelier of the Year by the Parliamentary Beer Club. Now she plans to raise the appreciation of beer and stop it being seen as wine's poor relation. She's pictured at the Great British Beer Festival

Added: Tuesday, August 20th 2013

Hogs Back Brewery is recording a big increase in sales and is busily expanding the site to cope with demand. As well as its core range of ales, the brewery has added a cloudy cider and a properly matured lager

Added: Sunday, August 11th 2013

The Boot Inn in St Albans market place dates from the early 15th century and soldiers fighting in the Wars of the Roses drank there. Now the pub has been given special recognition from the Battlefields Trust. Photo -- courtesy of Herts Advertiser -- shows Harvey Watson (left) from the trust presenting landlord Will Hughes with his presentation panel

Added: Thursday, August 1st 2013

Professor Freddy Delvaux, revered as an expert in brewing, has restored the old De Kroon brewery and, with his sons, turned it into a vibrant museum and visitor centre. And alongside they run a major laboratory that stores and analyses yeast cultures, working with many leading Belgian breweries. Image shows Peter (left), Freddy and Filp Delvaux

Added: Sunday, July 28th 2013

Top brewmaster Garrett Oliver, editor of the Oxford Companion to Beer, searches the world for good beer. Inspired by Carnegie Porter, his next venture is to build a brewery in Stockholm to provide Swedes with good beer to match their fine food

Added: Tuesday, July 16th 2013

Hoegaarden in Belgium was a town made famous by Pierre Celis and his spiced wheat beer. His brewery is now part of global giant AB InBev but Mieke De Backer and Jan De Wachter (pictured) maintain Celis's tradition of artisan brewing with their small Nieuwhuys plant where they make blond and dark beer...and a drop of geneva

Added: Wednesday, July 10th 2013

In Norwich, the National Collection of Yeast Cultures is helping to restore the famous London brewing name of Truman's by supplying the yeast cultures that once produced Mild, Porter and Pale Ale in Brick Lane, Whitechapel. Pictured are Benedikt Ott, Truman's brewer, with Vincent Johnson, who has installed the new brewing kit at Hackney Wick

Added: Monday, July 8th 2013

Frank Boon -- pronounced 'bone' -- is one of the classic brewers of lambic and gueuze, the Belgian beers made by spontaneous fermentation with long ageing in wood. He cuts no corners and sticks firmly to tradition even though he has a new, modern brewhouse

Added: Tuesday, July 2nd 2013

Deep in the countryside of Flemish Brabant, near the university city of Leuven, the Janssens family are farmers who grow their own barley and hops to fashion their farmhouse beers and age stronger beer is oak casks from the whisky and wine industries

Added: Friday, June 28th 2013