[Talk-GB] Drinking Map of UK

Robert Norris rw_norris at hotmail.com
Thu Nov 24 00:43:26 GMT 2011


>
> Brian Prangle wrote:
> > How to distinguish real ale from industrial mass market breweries?
> >
> >
> Put something descriptive in "real_ale=" perhaps?
>

In my mind, in the UK most (small/micro)breweries are real_ale, thus this should be assumed default.
(According to http://www.beermad.org.uk/, there are nearly 2000 breweries of real ale).

Map on http://www.quaffale.org.uk/php/showmap.php, shows we (OSM) have a long way to go.

NB quaffale state "Most of the information contained within this site is within the public domain.", so it may be interesting to pursue as a line of investigation...

Perhaps all breweries should state what they do, such as:

CAMRA definitions:
real_ale=yes
real_lager=yes
real_cider=yes 

and then
lager=yes
cider=yes
ale=yes
for other methods.

 		 	   		  


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