Justin Tayler “JT” Ficociello is a happy craft beer brewer. The U.S. expat lives in Puerto Viejo and gets to do what he loves ever since he was a 14-year-old teenager in Vermont.
Costa Rica's craft brewers have produced well over 100 beers in recent years, with new additions showing up in taps all the time. Here's where to find it.
Since the industry first got on its feet here six years ago, it's grown from a small community of home-brewing enthusiasts into a pillar of Costa Rica's gastronomical identity. What's next?
A Costa Rican-owned brewery pulled its beer from the Chicago Trump Hotel bar after The Donald's inflammatory comments about immigrants. Then it avenged all Latinos by changing the beer's name.
For married couple Michael Lindeman and Alejandra Arraya, mead is an opportunity to raise bees, cultivate honey, and brew vats of sweet liqueur in their home in Alajuela.
