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A Cider a Day

Bend’s local hard cider business is booming

Aaron Cousins stands facing two shiny new fermentation tanks, the toes of his boots wrapped several times around with duct tape. He is wearing a black skull cap and dressed in a black sleeveless hoodie that shows off aqua-colored lines of a sprawling tattoo on his right shoulder. “Cider sales in the U.S. have doubled […]

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On the Bubble

New trends in brewing are reshaping the industry

Billy Beer was never very good, and it didn’t last on the market very long, but it may deserve a large share of credit for the contemporary boom of craft beer. Produced briefly in the late 1970s by Billy Carter, the oafish younger brother of then-President Jimmy Carter, the beer leveraged whatever national attention is […]

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