Wine Aficionados and Beer Producer

beer: The new restaurant stocks Dubai's most-extensive selection of American craft beer, part of a major 23.5 billion market for customers wanting a different style of ale, according to CTV. It represents a new scene for Dubai, long known as the Manhattan of the Mideast, with chic skyscraper bars serving the fanciest of cocktails while the typical tap offers only the standard lagers. It's also being poured out, one pint at a time. That's starting to change, with establishments like Black Tap and Dubai's two main distributors increasingly stocking American craft beer, breaking new ground among Gulf Arab nations, several of which ban alcohol sales entirely. For wine aficionados, teetotallers or those otherwise unaware, a craft brewery is a small, independent beer producer. In such an eclectic city, we should have such an eclectic range of beers to accommodate instead of just the same beers that you can get all around the world, said Eric Ballard, the group beverage manager for Sunset Hospitality, which runs Black Tap. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.