The International Bird Beer Label Association, celebrating their 30th anniversary, has selected Homer’s Grace Ridge Brewery as the 2023 Brewery of the Year in honor of their Oystercatcher Stout brew label featuring a bird image.
The pandemic didn’t end in 2022, but where it loomed large in January, by the end of the year COVID-19 had taken a back seat in many ways to the tumultuous events of 2022. Still, components of the pandemic: rises and falls in cases, reports of fatalities, transitions in public policy were newsworthy in most weeks of publication.