How to make 20,000 pints of beer.

Step 7 The fun part

Sorry, I mean quality control...

All the brews are tasted as soon as they are ready.  The process is very like wine-tasting, except that you have to swallow, because much of a beer's flavour is after-taste.  No pansy slurp-and-spit here!

Samples from bottled batches are also tasted regularly through their shelf-life, and a month beyond; this is a non-pasteurised beer, and it is potentially possible for the flavour to alter with time.