here we are getting into the intricacies of the book. you have to be. the explosion of local microbreweries, local brewers are looking for local barly malt. what i learned was that 100% of the barly malt was coming from europe so they re looking for local farmers and farmers are growing barly but they re feeding animals. and they re in selling at a profit to barly malters so it s delicious and we support it. i tasted that beer at the restaurant and it s amazing. kind of a central idea is that we need to think not just about the sort of asparagus or the well-known vegetable or crop copping out but we need to think about the crops that help to replenish the soil so that asparagus can be really delicious and some of those crops, one is barly and you have
fire. denver has about 50 microbreweries. you can t go to denver without staying. we have imperial stout and triple ipa and black gold, the imperial peanut buttercup stout. i heard you had this and that s good. you have a pound of peanut buttercups. a perfect day in denver. cheers. we have much more straight ahead in the newsroom and it all begins right now. investigators looking into the baffling disappearance of flight 370 have new information. malaysia s prime minister said authorities confirmed with a high degree of certainty that the plane s communication system were disabled deliberately. the investigation is now zeroing in on the crew and performs and
turns out, the smallest breweries are having the biggest successes. abc s bradley blackburn joins us with the story. good morning, bradley. good morning. huge growth for microbreweries. sales of craft beer are up this year and a lot sold in growlers, that used to take beer from the tap back home. we tracked down the one brewery where the growler trend got started. these aren t any bottles of beer on the wall they re growlers. these days they re everywhere. more than a way to carry beer, growlers have carried the craft brewing industry. what does this mean for a microbrewery? small brewery starting off. great way to begin distribution beyond the brew pub. reporter: this couple owns grand teton brewery. in idaho. 100 bottles a minute, 1,000 a year. one of thousands of craft breweries. over 400 new craft breweries opened for business in 12 months. growlers help brewers who aren t
successes. abc s bradley blackburn joins us with the story. good morning, bradley. good morning. huge growth for microbreweries. sales of craft beer are up this year 15% already and a lot is being sold in growlers, that used to take beer from the tap back home. we tracked down the one brewery where the growler trend got started. these aren t any bottles of beer on the wall they re growlers. these days they re everywhere. more than a way to carry beer, growlers have carried the craft brewing industry. what does this mean for a microbrewery? small brewery starting off. great way to begin distribution beyond the brew pub. reporter: this couple owns grand teton brewery. in idaho. 100 bottles in a minute, 10,000 a year. one of thousands of craft breweries. over 400 new craft breweries opened for business in 12 months. growlers help brewers who aren t big enough to have expensive
no one had anticipated the booming growth. shep: colorado has had microbreweries, i lived throughout for months. they had good beer. of course, portal land, oregon is the other place as sort of microbrew capital. some people think that spirit and some of the weirdness is migrating south. shep: what would homer simpson say? that is what i is a. we should have couple right here. shep: thank you, rick. mother of two have taken marathon running to the next level. listen to this. this woman has gone 366 marathons in 365 days. the math is weird isn t it. she will explain what motivated her to keep on running when she joins us live next.