American craft breweries seem to have a minor obsession with numbers. Not the kind of numbers that matter but in the completely irrelevant topic of what they choose to name their breweries.
Craft brewing is no more likely to crash and quickly disappear than the restaurant or movie industries, despite seemingly dark times where fans may lose their favorite local brewery.
One casualty of the pandemic restrictions was the beer dinner (or beer-pairing dinner, to be more precise). Optimistically, this may finally be changing.
The art form of a good craft beer pub crawl has been covered from many different views, but one of the most popular subsets is that of the microbrewery crawl pair.
Everyone knows the mantra: malt, hops, yeast, water. These are the four essential ingredients of all beer, and brewing with anything beyond these four items is viewed as suspect.