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Not at all <!-- s:) --><img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt="" title="Smile" /><!-- s:) --> Some people also mentioned consistency and corporate responsibility.

I dont think their is much in the way of great breweries anymore, macro breweries anyway. They're all large companies and like any large company they are run in such a way that bening great is unachievable as they main aim of the game in profits up and expenses down

Well I think that we'd more than likely be looking at smaller breweries - Brooklyn Brewery's founders paint themselves in a very nice light in their book, and Brooklyn Lager is certainly (for me, at least) a great beer. Haven't had any of their other beers, and I don't know all that much about them beyond what they've said themselves, but they'd be the kind of company I'd be looking at if I was trying to find a brewery you could really call "great". Not a massive multi-national, but also not a really tiny micro, which I'm not sure you could call great either (you need to be able to get your beer to a wide audience).

I'd go with any brewery that still adheres to the reinheitsgebot.

&amp;quot;Andrew&amp;quot;:1ikkbw45 wrote: I'd go with any brewery that still adheres to the reinheitsgebot.[/quote:1ikkbw45] Can of Bitburger for yer man, and none of that Trappist crap.

&amp;quot;TheBeerNut&amp;quot;:kq3dqaos wrote:

&amp;quot;Andrew&amp;quot;:kq3dqaos wrote: I'd go with any brewery that still adheres to the reinheitsgebot.[/quote:kq3dqaos] Can of Bitburger for yer man, and none of that Trappist crap.[/quote:kq3dqaos]

well, the beauty, ethos and charm of the brewery must be surely taken into account. Making great beer is a prerequisite of course, but I would think of Rochefort for the sheer beauty of its engine room <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a...007_Luca_Galuzzi.jpg">upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/c ... aluzzi.jpg , Cantillon because the place is so charming and quirky, I'm sure there are many others, and many reasons.