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Welcome to Thirsty, a new column about craft beer in British Columbia. It’s a great time to be a beer geek on the west coast. Three decades after BC’s first modern-day microbrewery opened in Horseshoe Bay, the craft beer movement is booming here. There...

Introduction: pFriem Family Brewers is a brewery and tasting room on the banks of the Columbia River in Hood River, OR. We are looking for an outstanding general manager to take our tasting room to the next level of professionalism and success. pFriem...

Prolific child-welfare blogger Marie Cohen led The Chronicle of Social Change’s Blogger Co-op this year in readership – earning her the title as The Chronicle’s 2016 Blogger of the Year. Her blog entries were viewed more than 43,000 times on The Chronicle...

What the real Joe Sixpack thinks of Wyoming’s beer tax By Kerry Drake — October 1, 2013 The beer industry is, not surprisingly, hopping mad about a proposal to raise the state tax on its product in Wyoming. “The reality is that...

Maine Mead Works award-winning Mead. Dave Patterson photo Imagine if you will, a time before beer. I know, scary, but stick with me. Before humans were leaving bread and water to spontaneously ferment with wild yeast in pottery jars to make ancient...