Your daily dose of news and happenings from around the drink-o-sphere:
– Stone Brewing will open a craft beer hotel near their California complex, offering in-room growler service and a wide array of limited brews on tap.
– A two-foot-tall bottle of Hennessy, valued at $15,000, was stolen from a children’s charity last week.
– Khloe Kardashian’s home bar includes a refrigerator exclusively for vodka, including a row of Ciroc bottles gifted by Diddy himself.
– In an effort to reduce the amount of edible food that ends up in landfills, Toast Ale has begun brewing beer from old bread.
– The owner of Premier Cru, one of California’s largest wine retailers, has pleaded guilty to defrauding his customers of $45 million.
– In The Daily Beast, Lew Bryson outlines the difficulties facing the craft beer industry as growth has seemingly peaked.
– Eric Asimov looks at the wines of Vittoria, Sicily, which vie for attention with the nearby region of Mount Etna.
– Finally, The San Francisco Chronicle profiles brothers Andrew and Adam Mariani, co-owners of Sonoma’s quintessentially NoCal winery, Scribe.
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