Brooklyn Brewery's Journalism Connection

Friday trivia time: Homegrown beer favorites Brooklyn Brewery have a (pretty sweet) journalism connection.

Back in the 1970s and early 80s, Brewery founder Steve Hindy worked as a foreign correspondent for the Associated Press. While working out of the AP bureaus in Tehran, Beirut and Cairo, Hindy was the victim of an attempted kidnapping and saw Anwar Sadat‘s assassination. While living in the Muslim world, Hindy was forced to learn the fine art of homebrewing. It all dates back to an era of American lushes abroad:

Hindy returned to New York, with family and mind intact, to take an assistant editor post at Newsday.

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