Gerda's nutgraf story

from Erlanger Nachrichten, Sept. 14
http://www.nordbayern.de/region/erlangen/experten-fur-hopfen-und-malz-1.1505535

a story about a topic my region is famous for: beer

Title:

Experts for hop and malt

Lede:

For almost ten years, the "association for conserving the Franconian brewing culture" has been in existence, unifying 126 amateur beer brewers. They met in the atrium of the monestary malthouse in Frauenaurach for discussions and, of course, to present and taste their newest creations.

Nutgraf:
( I think this is the nutgraph...sorry, but this is the "hottest" story from my hometown...)

Once a group of 30 idealists were into the old craftmanship of brewing beer, its tradition and culture. For this reason, they founded the "association for the conservation of the Franconian Brewing culture" on Feb. 2, 2002. Today, the club consists of 126 amateur brewers regardless of age, gender or nationality. Also, it is not obligatory to be a beertrinker, states the present chairman, painter Kurt-Maria Adler from Möhrendorf. But that seems rather hypothetical since they are all drinking beer, at least at the summer festival in the atrium of the monestary malthouse in Frauenaurach.


The original text is in German.

What follows is a more detailed description of what happened at the summer festival (nothing special) and a despription of the different sorts of self-brewed beer, like "India Pale Ale".
So the nutgraf gives a pretty good idea of what the story is all about - and indeed, after that the reader is free to decide if he wants to go on reading...