
The Second Coming of Idaho Beer Making
Series: Northwest Food News & Edible Idaho
From: Guy Hand
Length: 00:04:00
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19th Century Idaho brewers were touting the virtues of "local" beer long before the word locavore was invented. A look at Idaho brewing history and how the old becomes new again.
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Broadcast History
Aired on Boise State Public Radio 8/12/11
Transcript
Idaho Beer History
Edible Idaho Feature: 0812GH_BeerHistory.wav Feature 4:00 08/12/11 GH/
[HOST INTRO] This is Edible Idaho with Guy Hand, celebrating 2011: The Year of Idaho Food.. (4:00 to soc out)
[HOST OUTRO] For more on this story or to listen to past Edible Idaho programs, go to radio.boisestate.edu/edibleidaho.
[SCRIPT]
Dinius: We’ve got Wallace Brewing from Wallace, Idaho. We’ve got Payette Brewing from Boise. We’ve got Sun Valley . . .
Hand: That’s Kevin Dinius [DIn-ee-us]. He’s a partner at the new Crescent Brewery in Nampa. He also organized this: the first ever all-Idaho Brewers Festival held at Lakeview Park in Nampa a few weeks ago. Right now Dinius is running down a list of Idaho-based breweries at the festival.
Dinius: We’ve got Van Scheidt out of Twin Falls, Portneuf Valley Brewing out of Pocatello is here, Laughing Dog from Sandpoint is here. Oh, Grand Teton...
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