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This shoe doesn’t fit quite right CHUCK SHEPHERD Courier Wire Services
Police report
Informal Georgia Sobriety Tests: Rachel Gossett blew a .216 alcohol reading in Loganville, Ga., in November, but that was probably a formality after an officer witnessed her attempt to put a cheeseburger from a Waffle Shop onto her foot as if it were a shoe.
Marvels of science
The notorious white separatist Craig Cobb is currently soliciting like-skinned people to move to his tiny town of Leith, N.D. (pop. 16), to create a deluxe Caucasian enclave, but at the urging of a black TV host submitted to a DNA test in November to “prove” his lineage and turned up 14 percent black (“Sub-Saharan African”). He has vowed to try other DNA tests before confirming those results. Bobby Harper, previously Leith’s only black resident, was gleeful: “I knew there was one other black person in town.” In midNovember, Cobb was charged, along with an associate, with seven counts of terrorism for walking menacingly through Leith wielding a long gun.
Photos by BRANDON POLLOCK / Courier Staff Photographer
Tap house manager Chelsea Adams fills a growler for a customer at Toppling Goliath brewery in Decorah.
Happy news
In October, Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro created a “Vice Ministry of Supreme Social Happiness” to coordinate the welfare programs begun by the late President Hugo Chavez. Critics charged, however, that there is much to be unhappy about, given the country’s annual rate of inflation (near 50 percent), and an Associated Press dispatch quoted one critic who said she would be happy enough if only stores were not constantly out of milk and toilet paper.
Mike Saboe is Toppling Goliath’s head brewer.
Iowa cracks open craft beer market JOHN MOLSEED john.molseed@wcfcourier.com
DECORAH — For a state more known for its fertility than fermentation, Iowa has produced a bumper crop of craft beer brewers. More than 50 craft breweries, microbreweries and brew pubs operate in Iowa. That’s enough to push the Hawkeye state ahead of other states like California, known for craft beer, in breweries per capita. A number of factors (including, yes, a smaller population in Iowa) have led to this rise. First, cultural shifts have brought more interest in craft beer and pride in a local products, area brewers said. “The way beer used to taste is coming back,” said Clark Lewey, owner of Toppling Goliath Brewing Co. in Decorah. Changes in state laws have made it easier for brewers to make and distribute their beer in Iowa, brewers said. “Under the old laws, in order to sell our own Golden Nugget here, we would have to send it to a distributor in Minnesota and pay them to bring it back here,” Lewey said. Iowa law now allows state brewers to self distribute. Another law, passed in March 2010, allowed Iowa brewers to produce and sell beer containing up 15 percent alcohol by volume and allowed Iowa beer wholesalers distribute beers of similar strength. Under these laws and others, brewers would have had a difficult time selling the beer they make in Iowa to their fellow Iowans. Toppling Goliath and other craft breweries are flourishing under these changes. Iowa breweries are starting to catch notice nationally. Toppling Goliath’s Kentucky Brunch Brand Stout broke
Beer Advocate’s top 100 best beers from around the world. Lewey sold a house for start-up funds to establish the brewery in 2009. Although he has yet to pay himself, the brewery now employs more than a dozen
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people full time. This summer, he invested more than $2 million into expanding the capacity of the operation. Before the expansion, the brewery was producing one beer at a time non-stop at a 30-barrel-per-day rate.
The new set up will allow the brewery to produce 110 barrels per day of four different brews at a time. The brewery also installed machinery that can fill up to 3,000 bottles per hour. That will allow Toppling
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Goliath to enter retail markets. Despite the bottler and increased capacity, the expansion won’t mean a sudden flood of Toppling Goliath beer.
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