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Craft Beer Looks Beyond ‘Young White Dudes With Beards’
Posted at: 1/14/2019 9:24 PM
By Dave Infante Faced with slowing sales growth, some brewers are looking to reach a new, more diverse audience. Thousands of craft beer brewers across the country have a problem: Sales are slowing, tastes are changing and stiff competition is coming from new directions. Wine and spirits have cut into market share. Cannabis deregulation looms. Despite a dozen years of growth in the industry, some people in the business are wondering aloud if the “post-craft” era is nigh, and some are embracin
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Brutal cold has arrived, and so has the 2019 Upstate NY ice wine harvest (photos)
Posted at: 1/14/2019 9:18 PM
By Don Cazentre Bundle up. It’s time to pick the grapes for ice wine in Upstate New York. As temperatures dipped into the single-digits in recent days, wineries from the Finger Lakes to the Thousands Islands and beyond sent brave employees into their vineyards to harvest frozen-on-the-vine grapes. These will be turned into the sweet, luscious and boldly flavored traditional version of ice wine. “It was actually a good good day -- very cold in the morning and we got everything off the vines by
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Add beer, wine and other drinks to NY’s container law
Posted at: 1/14/2019 8:12 PM
By The Editorial Board The nickel charge on many beverage bottles has done a lot of good in its 30-plus years in New York. It’s kept tens of billions of containers from ending up in landfills or as roadside litter, while bolstering the message about the importance of recycling. But it is overdue for an overhaul. Gov. Andrew Cuomo proposes to expand what’s known as the bottle bill beyond water, soda and beer to include most nonalcoholic beverage containers — glass, plastic and cans — to the lis
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Rochester, NY: One of the world’s Top 10 beer destinations?
Posted at: 1/9/2019 9:31 PM
By Don Cazentre ROCHESTER, NY -- Paris, Berlin, Tokyo, New Orleans and Austin, Texas made the cut. So did Rochester. All are ranked among the world’s Top 10 beer destinations in an annual survey at Vinepair.com, a site devoted to beer, wine and spirits. For the 2019 list, Vinepair writer Cat Wolinski tried to find cities that are “less obvious destinations” and “beyond the usual suspects.” That means she didn’t list Portland Ore. or Portland, Maine, or any place in Colorado or Belgium. Not e
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