If you want ideas about how to write that part of the site (ie, the non-pub parts), here are two sites that are quite successful with a different drink:

http://www.whisky-distilleries.info/index_EN.shtml (note this one was actually French to start with -hint that having two languages might help)

http://www.maltmaniacs.org/ (in fact you'll find 3 sites there, three times as much inspiration!)

I'd definitely read your site, and recommend it to scores of people. You have plenty of things to say about beer that would interest people.

And, now that Michael Jackson's dead (no, not that one, though he's dead also), the main competitor to your knowledge is no longer available.

Earth provides enough to satisfy every man's need, but not every man's greed. Gandhi