Rig Hand Craft Distillery goes hard on local. The distilling house makes several types of brum, a rum-like drink made from Alberta beet sugar, vodka made with local grains, and saskatoon berry-flavoured mead. Rig Hand has been in the distilling business for eight years, producing those products and more out of a location in Nisku, […] Read more
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Sugar beet plant closure worries Alta. growers
Developments at the processing plant in Montana won’t affect Alberta producers directly, but overall trend is troubling
American Crystal announced earlier this year it is closing its 100-year-old Sidney, Mont., beet sugar processing facility following a reduction of about one-third of contracted acres in the last two decades to a little more than 18,000 acres.
