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News Articles: Beer

Creature Comforts Brewery in Athens, Georgia

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  • Business

Georgia's largest indie brewery has a cautious eye on tariffs

In the midst of uncertainty over tariffs, some Georgia businesses are having a difficult time making long-term plans.

March 24, 2025
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  • Chase McGee
There's no precise answer on how much alcohol can be consumed without increasing health risks.

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  • Your Health

Is one drink a day OK? Here's what to consider

On the heels of the surgeon general's warning about the cancer risks of alcohol, there's growing consensus that less is better. But how much is enough? Here's what the experts recommend.

January 13, 2025
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  • Allison Aubrey

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  • News

How Jimmy Carter paved the way for the craft beer revolution

In 1978, President Jimmy Carter signed a bill that ended the prohibition on homebrewing, sparking a craft beer revolution.

January 03, 2025
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  • Peter Biello
River Remedy Brewing Co. beers (Courtesy River Remedy Brewing Co.)

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  • News

Rome Brewing Company wins gold at U.S. Open Beer Championship

On July 8, the River Remedy Brewing Company, a craft brewery based in Rome, Ga., announced that it had won two gold medals at the U.S. Open Beer Championship, one of the world's most popular beer competitions.

July 09, 2024
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  • Ambria Burton
Chattabrewchee Southern Brewhouse beer

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  • Business

Georgia small breweries disappointed in efforts to change century-old regulations

Georgia Senate Bill 163, aimed at providing flexibility for small breweries from regulations, stalled when the bill failed to advance out of the state Senate Regulated Industries and Utilities committee.

March 04, 2024
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  • Brittany McGee
beer

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  • News

Craft brewers looking for General Assembly to ease restrictions

In 2017, the General Assembly passed legislation allowing craft breweries in Georgia for the first time to sell their product directly to consumers in limited quantities.

September 05, 2023
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  • Dave Williams
A pint of beer is poured at Pressure Drop Brewery, in north London, in 2022.

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  • World

Beer in Britain's pubs just got cheaper, thanks to changes in the alcohol tax

The U.K. has lowered taxes on draft beers in pubs, in what it's calling its biggest shakeup to alcohol tax in a century. But taxes on other alcoholic beverages are rising, so not everyone is cheering.

August 11, 2023
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  • Fatima Al-Kassab
A worker dumps empty cans of Miller High Life beer into a machine to be crushed at the Westlandia plant in Ypres, Belgium, on Monday.

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  • Europe

The 'Champagne of Beers' gets crushed in Belgium

Belgian customs destroyed a shipment of 2,352 cans of Miller High Life after the Champagne trade body called foul over the "Champagne of Beers" slogan.

April 22, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
In this photo provided by Florida Highway Patrol, cases of Coors Light beer are strewn across a highway after two semitrailers collided on a Florida highway on Wednesday near Brooksville, Fla.

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  • Strange News

A truck collision turns a Florida highway into a silver sea of beer cans

A highway north of Tampa, Fla., had to close temporarily Wednesday morning after a semitrailer carrying cases of Coors Light beer crashed. Minor injuries were reported.

September 22, 2022
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  • The Associated Press
Sister Doris Engelhard, a 72-year-old Franciscan nun and master brewer at the Mallersdorf Abbey brewery in northeastern Bavaria.

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  • Europe

A Pilgrimage To Meet Germany's Last Beer-Brewing Nun

As part of NPR's summer travel series, Rob Schmitz takes us to a remote corner of southern Germany, where a nun has been brewing Bavarian beer for nearly five decades.

August 23, 2021
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  • Rob Schmitz
Marcus Baskerville, second from the right, at <a href="https://www.instagram.com/blackbrewculture/?hl=en">Black Brew Culture</a>'s Fresh Fest, August 11, 2019.

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  • National

'Black Is Beautiful' Beer By Black Brewer Helps Pour Money Into Social Justice Reform

Last year a Black-owned Texas brewery asked the craft industry to take their beer, Black is Beautiful, and use the proceeds to support equality, inclusion and social justice reform. It worked.

May 31, 2021
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By:
  • John Burnett

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  • Business

What Beer Sales Tell Us About The Recession

Cheap beer sales are surging but are still losing ground to craft beer. Yet craft breweries are still suffering. What is going on?

July 07, 2020
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  • Greg Rosalsky
Joel Iverson is the Chief Operating Officer of Monday Night Brewing

The Biz Of Beer With Monday Night COO Joel Iverson

Georgia laws haven't always been as friendly to brewers and distillers, even after Prohibition ended. During our special live show focusing on Georgia's...

March 15, 2018
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  • Rickey Bevington
Georgia is one of the last two states where breweries are still not allowed to sell beer directly to a customer.

Georgia Craft Brewers Ready To Leave Prohibition Laws Behind

By day, Jamey Adams works as a forensic chemist for the U.S. Army crime lab in Atlanta. But at night he trades his fatigues for a pint as he steps into...

February 28, 2017
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  • Ezra Kaplan and
  • Associated Press
Taylor Lamm is the co-owner and brewmaster at the Oconee Brewing Company, which will open early next year in Greensboro, Georgia.

Break It Down: Craft Beer

Georgia is not particularly welcoming to the craft beer industry . In fact, our state ranks 48th for number of breweries per capita. Yet, a new one will...

December 14, 2016
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  • Celeste Headlee and
  • Sean Powers
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