O produtor de cerveja caseira em Belo Horizonte: características do grupo e interfaces com os estudos do lazer

Abstract

Craftbrewering is a social phenomenon that can be empirically observed and associated with the Leisure Studies. This paper presents and goes through to partial results of a doctoral thesis named “From the pot until the glass: brewering as leisure practice” and deal with aspects of a group of craft brewers in Belo Horizonte, city inMinas Geraisstate,Brazil,such as the relationship of that practicewith leisure. As aqualitative study with ethnographic characteristic, interviews has been made, participation in brewering sessions and craft brewering at home made by one of the authors, registered in a field journal. The brewers can be seenas a social group, mainly males, witha cultural approach, inserted in labor world and with common characteristics free time, space and financial resources for leisure living.