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Why It’s So Hard for Celebrities to Run Their Own Breweries | VinePair

Joshua M. Bernstein 9/11/23 Joshua M. Bernstein 9/11/23

Why It’s So Hard for Celebrities to Run Their Own Breweries | VinePair

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Welcome to the Age of Hard Juice | The New York Times

Joshua M. Bernstein 8/14/23 Joshua M. Bernstein 8/14/23

Welcome to the Age of Hard Juice | The New York Times

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Meet the New Wave of American Cider Makers | Food & Wine

Joshua M. Bernstein 6/16/23 Joshua M. Bernstein 6/16/23

Meet the New Wave of American Cider Makers | Food & Wine

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Oh, Hey, What Have You Been Doing?

Joshua M. Bernstein 4/12/16 Joshua M. Bernstein 4/12/16

Oh, Hey, What Have You Been Doing?

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Craft Beer: What Does It Mean? | Imbibe

Joshua M. Bernstein 9/3/14 Joshua M. Bernstein 9/3/14

Craft Beer: What Does It Mean? | Imbibe

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Introducing Beer With Baby | First We Feast

Joshua M. Bernstein 5/28/14 Joshua M. Bernstein 5/28/14

Introducing Beer With Baby | First We Feast

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The Kings (County) of Brooklyn Beer | Draft Magazine

Joshua M. Bernstein 7/31/13 Joshua M. Bernstein 7/31/13

The Kings (County) of Brooklyn Beer | Draft Magazine

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Hey, Honey! Mead Is Buzzing Again

Joshua M. Bernstein 7/8/13 Joshua M. Bernstein 7/8/13

Hey, Honey! Mead Is Buzzing Again

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Why I Like Low-Alcohol Table Beer | Food Republic

Joshua M. Bernstein 7/19/11 Joshua M. Bernstein 7/19/11

Why I Like Low-Alcohol Table Beer | Food Republic

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Each year for @sevenfiftydaily, I canvas brewing industry stakeholders to create a comprehensive road map for the coming year in beer. More than ever, a cloud of negativity covers an industry roiled by erratic tariffs, spiking costs, declining consum

Live, Laugh, Love in the dive-bar bathroom @uncleleoscincy? Why not. I’ll take a little positivity just about anywhere this year. Here’s to flushing away 2025. And into the future we go! Happy New Year, indeed.

A little December photo dump filled with all the weird Christmas decorations, concerts, matzo ball soup, solstice fires and a few great beers over the last month. Plus Prince as you’ve likely never seen him. Hope everyone is hanging tough this

As a writer, finding negative narratives in craft beer is a breeze. Sales are declining. Closures are climbing. Let’s blame all those IPAs! Or Gen Z! Or THC!

Instead of focusing on deflating news, though, @vinepair asked me to do another editi

Before November disappears, a few highlights from the last few weeks: Violet turned 12 and we celebrated with a dozen donuts! I rode in the local Cranksgiving food drive! And bought smoked turkeys for our 17-person Thanksgiving from a BBQ truck in a

During craft beer’s 2010s heyday, breweries created objects of dark desire by redoubling stouts’ ABVs, adding cocoa nibs and coconut to evoke liquefied candy bars, and aging the roasty beers in bourbon barrels. Creative extravagances led

Post-Halloween post for posterity and proof of life to show that, yet again, I dressed up like a hot dog for, like, the seventh year in a row. Best per-wear purchase o’ my life. Also: I stood on a street corner with strangers turned friends and

Halloween hellscape roundup from morning walks around the neighborhood at, oh, 730am. Halloween: the very best season. It’s nearly time to dust off the hot dog costume. #halloween

It’s amazing what you can fit into two days in New York City when you put your mind to it. And don’t sleep. Scenes from a fast 48 hours in NYC for @covertcocktailclub’a wedding, including human pony rides, plenty of dumplings, visit

Now that we’re livin’ in Columbus, we’re trying to take advantage of being within a three-hour drive of a ton of cities we rarely got the chance to explore. Which meant 36 hours in Pittsburgh last weekend with old friends.

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