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Examples of microbrew in a Sentence
The restaurant serves several locally produced microbrews.
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The geeks' first stop was the Alaska Brewery, a shrine to microbrew mavens because of its rarely exported Amber Ale.
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Microbrews are usually beers or ales made with special malts and hops, unfiltered and unpasteurized, and thus distinctive in their aroma and flavor. Many microbreweries double as bar/restaurants, called brewpubs, where the gleaming vats may be visible behind a glass partition. "Craft brewing" and the opening of local brewpubs began in earnest in the U.S. in the 1980s. But not everyone is willing to pay extra for a beer, and lots of people are simply used to the blander taste of the best-selling beers, so by 2008 microbrews still only accounted for about 4% of all beer sold in the U.S.
1985
First Known Use of microbrew
1985
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: a beer made by a microbrewery
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