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A mug of ale please," calls Kanishk Goswami across the solid wood bar-top.
Arsenal and other English-football team logos on the walls add to the atmosphere.
The barman returns with a large glass tankard of brown ale.
Two hundred years since English brewers started shipping strong, extra-hoppy beer to colonialists on the subcontinent, India Pale Ale (IPA) is making a tentative comeback here - in a handful of microbrewery pubs emerging in Gurgaon, the fast-growing business hub on the edge of Delhi.
Its main customers so far are the vanguard of the new thrusting India - people like Mr Goswami, a corporate headhunter who set up his company's London operation and got a taste for British beers while there.
"Honestly, that tastes so good," he smiles after his first gulp of IPA. "It's not 100% but 95% spot on."
Most of the beer drunk in India is lager, with the market dominated by brands like Kingfisher and Cobra.
A mug of ale please," calls Kanishk Goswami across the solid wood bar-top.
Arsenal and other English-football team logos on the walls add to the atmosphere.
The barman returns with a large glass tankard of brown ale.
Two hundred years since English brewers started shipping strong, extra-hoppy beer to colonialists on the subcontinent, India Pale Ale (IPA) is making a tentative comeback here - in a handful of microbrewery pubs emerging in Gurgaon, the fast-growing business hub on the edge of Delhi.
Its main customers so far are the vanguard of the new thrusting India - people like Mr Goswami, a corporate headhunter who set up his company's London operation and got a taste for British beers while there.
"Honestly, that tastes so good," he smiles after his first gulp of IPA. "It's not 100% but 95% spot on."
Most of the beer drunk in India is lager, with the market dominated by brands like Kingfisher and Cobra.
