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Joshua M. Bernstein’s Biography

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Hey there! My name is Joshua M. Bernstein, and I’m an award-winning author and beer, spirits, food, and travel journalist, plus an event producer, consultant, occasional tour guide, and pun enthusiast. Somehow, I’m also the vice president of my daughter’s middle school PTSO. I like to stay busy.

Since 2000, I’ve turned my curiosity and appetites into a far-ranging career writing about food and drinks for dozens of newspapers, magazines, and websites including The New York Times, Bon Appétit, W…

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6 Beer Industry Trends to Watch in 2026 | SevenFifty Daily

6 Beer Industry Trends to Watch in 2026 | SevenFifty Daily

Each year, I canvas dozens of people in the beer industry to try make sense of the year ahead. Breweries can …

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Breweries Are Evolving Their Approach to Stout

Breweries Are Evolving Their Approach to Stout

How craft brewers are respecting the stour beer style's traditional roots while exploring its possibilities f…

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What Happened to Magic Hat #9?

What Happened to Magic Hat #9?

It's shocking to hear about an old friend's supposed death on Reddit. A couple months ago, coffee in hand, I …

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Has the Craft Beer Industry’s Keg Finally Kicked?

Has the Craft Beer Industry’s Keg Finally Kicked?

After decades of meteoric success, this year marked the first time since 2005 that more breweries closed than…

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Reappearing Act: Why Breweries Are Reviving Beloved Bygone Beer Brands

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| VinePair Verified
It was neither hell nor high water that felled 21st Amendment Brewery. Its closure last fall came from a less biblical calamity: overexpansion and underperforming sales. The canned-beer pioneer began in 2000 as a San Francisco brewpub, becoming one of America’s 50 biggest breweries and taking over a San Leandro Kellogg’s factory to produce plenty of Hell or High Watermelon wheat ale. Ambition ran into the pandemic buzzsaw, compounded by distribution difficulties and can shortages.
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Rice Lagers Offer Approachability Through a Fresh Lens

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By Joshua M. Bernstein Verified
| Imbibe Magazine Verified
Early last year, Yuki and Yumi Shiono, a married Japanese couple in Brooklyn, entertained a grain of thought. The hospitality veterans knew that New York City’s Japanese restaurants mainly served staple Asian lagers such as Sapporo and Tsingtao. Surely there must be menu space for locally made Japanese craft beer. Yuki, who worked at Brooklyn’s Interboro brewery, and Yumi, a bartender at Rockaway Brewing in Queens, played that hunch by founding NYC’s first Japanese brewery, Saltfields.
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Duplexes May Help Columbus' Housing Crisis, But Options are Scant

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By Joshua M. Bernstein Verified
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Growing up in Wadsworth, Ohio, an Akron suburb founded in 1814, Carlie Boos was typically a few steps from family. She lived in a duplex with her parents, and her cousins rented the connected next-door unit. Extra eyes came in handy. "I remember my mom banging on the neighbor's door and saying, 'I've got to run to the store. Keep an eye on Carlie,'" says Boos, executive director of the Affordable Housing Alliance of Central Ohio.
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What was your first job as a journalist?

Writing front-page headlines for the Athens Messenger.

What does it mean to be a journalist?

To make the arcane accessible and uncover truths about our shared world.

What's the funniest news-related #hashtag you've seen?

Uh, none? Can't think of any.