[responsivevoice_button voice=”UK English Female” buttontext=”Listen to Post”] After learning that wine sales are down and losing out to a younger audience who are turning to beer, Napa’s winemaker, Patrick Rue, had an idea. Rue runs Erosion Wine Co.in Napa Valley. He’s putting wine in cans, ignoring vintages, fermenting with genetically modified yeast and adding uncommon…
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Sixth-generation Peninsula farmer Kyle Michell brews his beers from barely off of his own land. In 2015, he and his wife Jennifer bought the original horse farm. Michell’s great-grandfather farmed there in the 60’s. “We met Mike and he led us down the rabbit hole,” Kyle said, seated in the former horse barn, renovated into…
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Last week, four top producing beer companies called out to President Biden to slash tariffs on aluminum imports as a way to fight inflation. According to the article in The Hill, in a letter to Biden, Gavin Hattersley, president and CEO of the Molson Coors Beverage Company; Brendan Whitworth, CEO of Anheuser-Busch; Jim Sabia, president…
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For the first time in history, Mexico will be represented at the World Championship of Beer Sommeliers. But that’s not the biggest news for the country–Katia Niño will be the one who heads to Munich this September to join close to 100 beer sommeliers from around the world. In 2019, winning beer sommelier Elisa Raus…
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The Best States for Beer Lovers, Ranked Last month, Vinepair released a list of the 50 best and worst U.S. states for beer lovers. The article combines several sets of data around beer production where each state was ranked for the following: The number of craft breweries per 100,000 21+ adults in 2021 (via Brewers…
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Stephen Tyson and Yves St. Amand spent years managing Toronto establishments before deciding to merge their experience with their passion for sustainability. They are now working on Canada’s first carbon-negative brewery which will be located in Peterborough, Ontario. With climate change on the forefront of the brewing industry, these brewers are in the process of…
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Japan’s Sapporo will acquire California-based Stone Brewing for $168 million. Stone Brewing, founded in 1996, is the ninth largest craft brewer in the U.S. and the largest in Southern California. Stone claims to have pioneered the West Coast style IPA, and also produces a range of lagers, stouts and sours. Its beer is sold across…
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The 2022 New York International Beer Competition took place in April and Upstreet Craft Brewing received several pieces of hardware for their Libra line of non-alcoholic beers. The top accolade was Libra named Canadian Non-Alcoholic Brewery of the Year in recognition of “its commitment to innovation and pushing the boundaries of the non-alcoholic craft beer…
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A brewery in Fort Worth, Texas, has released their newest beverage at a hot dog festival. The unveiling is the ideal spot to announce that they are releasing a hard seltzer brewed from leftover hot dog water. Martin House Brewing Company has been known to create unique and wacky products such as their salsa verde…
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In the middle of the Cape Winelands, there is a site where for more than 50 years wine was produced, and now lies the home of Soul Barrel Brewing, producers of Live Grand Cru Culture, Africa’s best craft beer in 2022. Dennis Cruywagen, writer for the Daily Maverick, was sitting in what was a wine…
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