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Carakale Brewing Company

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Carakale Brewery
IndustryAlcoholic beverage
Founded2010
Headquarters,
ProductsBeer
Production output
0.25 million litres
OwnerYazan Karadsheh

Carakale Brewery is a Jordanian microbrewery founded in 2010 in the town of Fuheis near Amman by Yazan Karadsheh, a member of the local Christian community.[1] The brewery is named after Caracal, a mammal that is native to Jordan.[2]

History

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Carakale was Jordan's first microbrewery and its first production beer was a blond ale of the same name intended to serve as entry-level brew for the Jordanian domestic market, which was unacquainted with craft beer culture.

The brewery sold its first bottle in late 2013, was producing 40,000 bottles a month by mid-2014,[3] and was available in most of the approximately 600 stores, bars, restaurants, and hotels that sell alcohol in Jordan by late 2017.[4]

Carakale has collaborating with several US breweries, including the Arizona Wilderness Brewing Company, with which it made a Dead Sea-salted and grapefruit-flavoured Gose beer, "Dead Sea-rious", and the Against The Grain Brewery, with which it produced a fig and chamomile Pilsner and a za'atar-spiced Saison.[5]

References

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  1. ^ Pizzi, Michael (23 June 2015). "Jordan's craft brewery brings beer back to its birthplace". Al Jazeera. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  2. ^ Whitman, Elizabeth (10 September 2014). "Brewing Beer in the Middle East Is a Tough Business". Vice. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
  3. ^ Bulos, Nabih (5 May 2014). "A beer pioneer launches Jordan's first microbrewery". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2016-09-13.
  4. ^ Scott, Patrick (23 October 2017). "A Beer Buoyed by Dead Sea Salt Is Taking the Craft World by Storm". Bloomberg. Retrieved 2017-12-19.
  5. ^ Khudairi, Samer (12 November 2020). "(Un)Holy Water — The Middle Eastern Voices Shaping the Global Beer Narrative". Good Beer Hunting. Retrieved 2021-08-25.
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