date:Oct 25, 2012
A single vat bubbles languidly in the corner, while the air in the small, high-ceilinged space under a South London railway arch slowly fills with a zesty, hoppy smell, as the latest batch of Black India Pale Ale gradually fermented.
This is the Kernel microbrewery, one of many new kids on the British beer block who are bucking the downward national trend in beer drinking.
Where once the big, multi-national beer corporations accounted for the lion's share of brewery growth, now small, independ