Craft beer has been going for 30 odd years, but in recent years brewers have really kind of lent into that. There are around 4,500 qualified sister-owned and something like 150,000 qualified beer servers. So there's doing this kind of recent expansion of really very high-end beers targeting people who want to take beer extremely seriously.
Israel’s new government is its most right-wing ever—but, in a break from the past, that may not derail deepening relations with neighbouring Arab countries. Thousands of Africans are killed each year after being accused of witchcraft—in many cases for more nefarious reasons than mere superstition. And the “cicerones” helping Americans navigate a vast and growing craft-beer scene.
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