Beer school
Bargain brews
Cheap beer often comes with a bad reputation, says Mark Dredge, but that doesn’t mean you have to shell out a fortune for a decent tipple
Great beer shouldn’t be cheap. It’s made with barley and hops that grow on farms and are tended over months. Maltsters turn that barley into malt. Hop farmers wait until the right moment to pick the perfect hop, and each variety has different costs (imported hops tend to be way more expensive). Head brewers train for years, and fellow brewers, engineers, packagers, drivers, marketing and sales people and more all play a role in transforming those plants in the ground into the beer in your hand.