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If I drank, that could be an interesting job, considering how many micro breweries have popped out of the woodwork in the WDC area the past 5 years.

Yeah, I don't envy the number of applications they'll have to sift through from people who figure if they like beer, they're qualified!

Interesting... I didn't know that beer was so big in the States -- especially after spending eight years in the UK, not to mention another eight years in beer-happy Belgium. (runs away).

In the northwestern US and southwestern Canada, microbreweries have been very popular for a long time. I'm not sure about the rest of the US and Canada, but I do know that there have been niche US and Canadian beers available for a long time outside of the huge mass produced ones. I went to a beer festival last month here in my small town in BC, Canada, and I knew beer aficionados when I went to school in Pennsylvania. It's more of a sub-culture thing though, I think. I'm not a big drinker so I don't pay a ton of attention.