The Newest Beer Trend Is Putting Wine Grapes in Beer

…and it’s the most Bay Area thing ever.

Keith A. Spencer
The Bold Italic
Published in
5 min readFeb 10, 2017

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Illustration by Megan Dailey

It used to be that there were two basic types of alcohol consumers: wine drinkers and beer drinkers. Then the craft-brewery scene and the slow-foods movement took off in tandem in the Bay Area. And eventually the brewers started paying attention to the vintners, who’d been in Napa and Sonoma for a very long…

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