Taboo to brew: conservative Gulf gets first local beer

Alcohol sales are heavily restricted in Oman and Qatar and are outright banned in Kuwait, and in Sharjah, one of the UAE's seven emirates and a neighbour to cosmopolitan Dubai.

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A bartender serves beer at Craft brewery in Abu Dhabi, UAE on May 7, 2024. (AFP)

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ABU DHABI - Inside his Abu Dhabi gastro pub, Chad McGehee inspects shiny steel tanks fermenting a special brew: the first beer made in the conservative

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