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What We’re Watching

Still Installed at Old Forester Distillery It was a sight to see on Main Street in downtown Louisville Saturday as a 4,700 pound still was installed into the Old Forester Distillery.  You can see it here, from WDRB, Louisville.

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How Everything Changed for a Craft Brewer After Sale to MillerCoors

The owners of Terrapin Beer in Athens, Ga., saw craft beer’s big-money moment unfold around them.  Read more here, from MarketWatch.

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An Air Force General, Some Organic Grain – and a Big New Upstate NY Distillery

Mike Basla had a stellar career in the U.S. Air Force, attaining the rank of lieutenant general (three-star), serving as the service’s chief information officer and head of its 77,000-member cyber operations unit.

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Captain Frederick Pabst Mansion At 125 Read about the one-time residence of Captain Frederick Pabst here, from Urban Milwaukee.

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What We’re Reading

How Dogfish Head, Delaware’s Most Famous Brewery, Became Its Biggest Distillery   Inside the Wine Ranch Once Owned by a Movie Legend   MillerCoors Brewery Owes Success to Union-Management Relationship An Ohio brewery has a recipe to make America great … Continue reading

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Ronald Reagan Decided 33 Years Ago 18-Year-Olds Can’t Buy a Beer

Consider chugging one for the Gipper this afternoon. Thirty-three years ago Monday (6/17), President Reagan yielded to peer pressure and, using the power of the federal purse-strings, forced the states to play the worst drinking game of all time. With … Continue reading

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