Why Are There So Many Kids At Breweries?
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Why Are There So Many Kids At Breweries?

B2Upper-intermediateOctober 12, 202633 min
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The craft brewery used to be a place for self-proclaimed beer nerds to sample the hot new IPA. Now, young kids, toddlers, and even infants take up as much space as beer-drinking adults. So how did this happen? It’s a story of a fast-growing industry finally slowing down, and its core customer base growing up. Sporkful senior producer Andres O’Hara investigates how craft breweries became the go-to spot for parents, with help from journalist and author Joshua M. Bernstein. Then he talks with two brewery owners—Damian Fagan of Almanac Beer Company and Jason Goldstein of Icarus Brewin...

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I remember one of the questions they asked was, oh, do you ever have any issues with underagers? And I'm like, yes, but not in the way that you're thinking. He's like, oh, like what?

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I'm like, yeah, normally like ages like three to seven. This is the Sporkful. It's not for foodies, it's for eaters. I'm Dan Pashman.

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