Author: Karen Edwards

Take An Interstate 80 Midwest Wine Tour

Take An Interstate 80 Midwest Wine Tour

A common thread stitching together the Midwest states is Interstate 80 (I-80) which connects the Midwest to both coasts.  I-80 pushes like a needle through Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Iowa and Nebraska, zipping past Great...

More Ohio Wineries Adding Distilleries

More Ohio Wineries Adding Distilleries

In 2011, Ohio passed a law, House Bill 243, which did several things to improve the lives of the state’s imbibers. The bill allowed distilleries, for the first time, to: Exist in counties with a...

Fertile Market For New Ohio Cider Makers

With nearly 20 cider houses producing hard cider in Michigan, it seems Ohio , with just three cider-producers, offers a bushel-full of opportunity (and little competition) to anyone wishing to open a cider operation...

Markko Gouda Cheese Shows Great Pumace

Wanting to give his blue cheeses a more complex, nuanced flavor than most other blue cheeses, the owner of Oregon’s Rogue Creamery turned to a nearby vineyard, Carpenter Hill Winery, and asked for leaves...

Imed Dami’s Ohio Winegrape Trials Update

Imed Dami’s Ohio Winegrape Trials Update

On February 21st, Dr. Imed Dami,  Associate Professor of Horticulture and Crop Science at OSU, updated participants of the Ohio Wine and Grape Conference on research findings of OSU’s “Winegrape Variety Evaluation Trials.”   Dami...