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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.
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Holly Alvarado, Daily News, 31 Oct. 2025
Try cocktails, mocktails, or local microbrews at Main and Mountain with wings and dogs sourced from a local, natural meat purveyor.
—AFAR Media, 30 Oct. 2025
Each store also carries more than 2,500 beers, from the most popular to hard-to-find microbrews and imports, and another 3,000 different spirits of every style.
—Shawn Price, Oc Register, 19 Sep. 2025
Draft beers highlight small German and Austrian family breweries and monastery microbrews.
—John Metcalfe, Mercury News, 19 Sep. 2025
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“Microbrew.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microbrew. Accessed 3 Feb. 2026.
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