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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.
Examples of microbrew in a Sentence
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
Back at the ranch, have a cold local microbrew and join the Salamader Fire Circle.
—Kim Westerman, Forbes.com, 26 July 2025
This Irish bar offers a variety of bar snack, burgers, patty melts, quesadillas, fish and chips, salads, soups, microbrews and cocktails.
—Gege Reed, The Courier-Journal, 12 July 2025
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“Microbrew.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/microbrew. Accessed 24 Oct. 2025.
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