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Layoffs, Closed Taprooms As Microbreweries Brace For Economic Impact Of COVID-19

By • Mar 18, 2020

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Beer is big business in the Mountain West.

The University Of Wyoming Grows Ancient Grains For Future Profits

By • Jan 13, 2020
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Senior research scientist Thomas Foulke first learned about these ancient grains in France, where he takes students for a yearly agriculture program. He was flipping through an old French cookbook when he came across a recipe that called for spelt. Unfamiliar with the word, he looked it up and found that it was a grain, one of the first ever cultivated.

Colorado Beer Biz Shaken Up

By • Nov 27, 2019
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New Belgium Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, is best known for Fat Tire, an easy drinking amber ale. It's also famous for being a craft brewery owned by its employees. But that could soon change. The company plans to sell to the global craft beverages business Lion Little World Beverages.

New Mountain West Beer Seeks To Raise Money For Public Lands

By editor • Aug 23, 2019

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Microbrews Slowing Down While Craft Spirits Grow

By • Apr 26, 2019
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This might surprise you, but Americans seem to be losing their taste for beer. Even the dizzy growth we've seen in the microbrew industry is slowing down. Craft beer producers are trying to buck this trend, which involves figuring out how to be competitive with each other as well as the newer kid on the block: craft spirits.

For International Women's Day, Women Brewers Release The Equality IPA

By • Mar 8, 2019
Snake River Brewing Co.

On March 8, women brewers from the Snake River Brewing Company and the Roadhouse Brewing Company have collaborated to brew the Equality IPA. This is the fourth year the Jackson based breweries have come together on International Women's Day.

When Modern Brewing Meets Ancient Ales, Strange Things Happen

By • Feb 28, 2019

The closest that Travis Rupp came to getting fired, he says, was the time he tried to make chicha. The recipe for the Peruvian corn-based beer, cobbled together from bits of pre-Incan archaeological evidence, called for chewed corn partially fermented in spit. So, Rupp’s first task had been to convince his colleagues to gather round a bucket and offer up their chompers for the cause.

Government Shutdown Throws A Wrench In The Release Of Some Seasonal Craft Brews

By • Jan 8, 2019

If the impasse over President Trump’s proposed border wall makes it to Saturday morning, this will be the longest government shutdown in U.S. history. And it has an unlikely victim — craft beer.

HumaNature Hefeweizen Beer Release Party From Coal Creek Tap

By • Mar 23, 2016
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Wyoming Public Radio celebrated 50 years of service and the release of a new brew from Coal Creek TAP, The HumaNature Spring Hefeweizen on March 22nd, 2016.

The 'Open Spaces Saison' Is Now On Tap

By Micah Schweizer • Sep 16, 2014
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Wyoming considers increasing the Beer Tax

By • Aug 30, 2013
Bob Beck

Wyoming is not a big tax state, so it might not be much of surprise to learn that Wyoming’s Beer Taxes are the lowest in the country.  Beer is taxed two cents a gallon and according to the Tax Foundation that amounts to a penny a six pack for a consumer. 

There have been several efforts to raise the tax in recent years, but those proposals are typically dead on arrival.  In a few weeks the Legislature’s Joint Revenue Committee will re-vist the issue as Wyoming Public Radio’s Bob Beck reports.

Fremont County leads Wyoming beer tax hike effort

By • Mar 18, 2013

An interim legislative committee is planning to study Wyoming's beer and liquor tax this summer.

Wyoming's 2-cents-per-gallon tax on malt beverages is the lowest in the nation. It has remained unchanged since it was first passed in 1935, about a year after Prohibition was repealed.

The study is among several tax studies assigned to the Joint Interim Revenue Committee this summer and fall.