The return of craft breweries
Live MintSo, you want to take me home?” reads a cheeky prompt on the website of Doolally Taproom. It refers to the Maharashtra-based microbrewery’s takeaway growler bottles of craft beer, which can be ordered online or picked up from their breweries in Pune and Mumbai. Breweries and brewpubs in Maharashtra and Bengaluru, the biggest hubs of craft beer in India, are experimenting with a variety of ingenious ways to service home consumption and keep their brands alive despite the inevitable pandemic-related slowdown in business. “We have been in talks with the government for the last two years to make growlers legal and the pandemic accelerated it for us,” says Nakul Bhonsle, the director of Pune-based craft brewery Great State Aleworks and president of the Maharashtra chapter of the Craft Brewers Association of India. A Gurugram-based craft beer consultant and founder of Kadak Brewing Co., Ishan Grover, believes they don’t have government support because the brewing industry is still quite niche compared to the robust scene in Bengaluru, Mumbai and Pune.
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