Happy Hour Live with Tara Nurin

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Happy Hour Live with Tara Nurin

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Women have had a long - and under-appreciated role in brewing and distilling for generations. Beer and spirits writer Tara Nurin explored that history in her book "A Woman's Place Is In the Brewhouse," and joined us in-studio to discuss some of that history over a beer and a dram.

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