Real ale, in general, was a niche market. Live beer is hard to keep and few establishments, especially in London where I lived, seemed to have any interest in doing it properly. One time in a pub in Putney, I tried to return a pint that was a cloudy sludge of yeast and vinegar and was told by the supercilious French barman that it was English beer: it was meant to taste like that. My friends all drank lager.

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Or, perhaps more accurately, not have a mental block about drinking the stuff. The main reason is that the two main flavouring ingredients of beer, malt and hops, are still present, while brewers can, and do, add other ingredients to flavour their beers cocoa nibs to porter, for example. Over the past couple of years, the market has really exploded. The drydrinker.

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