The Mocktail Serving mocktails doesn’t exactly cause a human stampede to the bar… and in the past anyone who saddled up to the bar and ordered a Shirl
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Nowadays, making your own wine and beer at home is as easy as ordering a starter kit online. For those interested, plenty of information can be found
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Galena Brew Fest is being held August 10 at Chestnut Mountain in Galena. The entry fee is $25. This gets you 24 sample tickets and a glass ($5 designa
Read MoreFor a moment there, I thought we were going to have to continue to drink warm toddies and big reds. But just as in every year without fail, July comes
Read MoreRosé: that lovely, soft, yet subtle pink refreshing wine screams nothing but SUMMER! After almost a 30-year “bad rap,” Rosés have finally come back t
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I think we can all recall a time when we finished the last of something that was so good that we were sorry there wasn’t more. It may have been a part
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Where would you be if you walked into a brew pub that incorporated as many local ingredients as possible into their beers and named those beers after
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It was my extreme pleasure to share time with Sarah Goedhart, Head Winemaker for Hedges Family Estate Winery since 2015. Sarah is the daughter of Tom
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