Peter Austin, builder of ~140 breweries around the world, passes away at 92
One rainswept day in 1978, I went to Ringwood in Hampshire to meet Peter Austin and encounter a new concept in beer making: a microbrewery. At that time, brewing was dominated by six giant national brewers, which were converting their pubs to keg beers and taking over and closing many of the remaining independent breweries.
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