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Representing the companies whose

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modern farming innovations help
America's farmers provide

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nutritious food for communities
around the globe.

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Hi I'm Rob Stewart.

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If you like a glass of wine
with your meals or, maybe,

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like to grab a beer
at the end of the day,

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then stick around --
because we're raising a glass

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to an important segment of
American agriculture.

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We'll take you to California
where winemakers are taking

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a different approach in
reaching new customers.

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You'll see how crop
technology is helping one

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winemaker to "sweeten"
your tasting experience.

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Sharon Vaknin has some ideas
that make it easy for you

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to serve up a very
popular dish.

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And we'll take you to the
Pacific Northwest where

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turning out distinctive
beers is a multi-family effort.

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It's all coming up on
America's Heartland.

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Bottoms up.
Cheers, cheers.

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♪You can see it in the eyes
Of every woman and man♪

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♪In America's Heartland
living close to the land♪

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♪There's a love for the country
And a pride in the brand♪

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♪In America's Heartland♪

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♪Living close
Close to the land♪

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♪♪

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In recent years, Americans
have become a lot more

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selective about where
their food comes from.

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And we've become much
more adventuresome

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when it comes to trying new
foods.

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And that goes for
beverages as well.

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Just look at the explosion
in micro-brews

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when it comes to beer.

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Barley... hops...
wheat... and rice.

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Heartland grains that go
into brewing

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big name and boutique beers.

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And while beer was once just
"beer" today we have everything

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from low cal and low carb to
imports and flavored malts.

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And while everyone knows
about wine from California,

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more and more states are
seeing winemakers using

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local grapes to produce
award winning wines.

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Figures show that Americans
will consume,

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on average, about
12 bottles a year.

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And what are we drinking?

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Chardonnay, cabernet
sauvignon, merlot, pinot grigio

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and white zinfandel are high on
the wine popularity list.

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And just as we've seen
new innovations that have

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dramatically increased crop
yields for farmers growing

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things like corn, cotton,
wheat and soybeans,

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crop research is also impacting
those producers who grow grapes

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and it's being done in a new way
that is closer to nature.

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Ridge Vineyards has been
producing award winning

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wines for more than
a half century.

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Their historic vineyard spreads
across these colorful hills in

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the Santa Cruz Mountains in
Cupertino California.

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Though we have mostly
Cabernet Sauvignon,

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we have a little bit
of Cabernet Franc,

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a lot of Merlot
and Petite Verdot.

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Those four grapes all have
the potential of going into

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our top wine called Monte
Bello and a small block of

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really old Zinfandel
that is pre-prohibition.

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The wines... and
historic vines here...

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benefit not just from
decades old growth.

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They also benefit from something
called bio crop protection...

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new ways to manage crop
cycles using more

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natural methods and
fewer chemicals.

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On this hot summer day,
the grape vines are being

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sprayed to prevent mildew growth
and the potential for rotting.

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It's high science
horticulture, developed here.

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This is the
Bayer Crop Science Research

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and Development Laboratory
where a team of scientists

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and horticulturists is
developing new scientific

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approaches for farmers to
use on crops around the globe.

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We have... a basic discovery,
we're looking for new

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microorganisms to use
in crop protection.

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So we have microbiology,
we have chemistry,

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we have entomology, nematology.

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As we're developing the
process we have to continue

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to test that against the
target diseases

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to make sure that the
activity is continuing.

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We also need to support
manufacturing,

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make sure that each batch
of product

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meets specifications for the
disease control.

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But scientific crop protection,
and research,

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begins with recreated "mini farm
fields" in these greenhouses.

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Conditions here simulate
what crops, and farmers,

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face in the real
world of production.

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It's research
that takes time.

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When one of our scientists
goes wow, you know,

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he's working on a bench and
he discovers a new product

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to control fungus,
say on apples.

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From the day that he
says wow, on his bench,

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it can be up to ten
to fifteen years

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before we can get that to a
grower for actual use.

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We do a great number
of field trials,

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scientific work to go to
the regulatory authorities.

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In the U.S., it's the
Environmental Protection Agency,

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the EPA.

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The crop work here will focus on
a number of concerns:

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things like seed development,
crop protection and pest control

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In addition to the focus
on science....

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One of the methodologies that we
use looks at the job of growing

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a crop and we break that
down into job steps.

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And what that allows you
to do is to understand the

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efficiencies needed and to
anticipate the technology

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that it's gonna need to make
a grower more efficient

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at growing that crop.

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Those methodologies include
research to discover and enhance

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the naturally occurring defense
systems that some plants have.

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Finding those plant "biological"
protections can impact

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even reduce, the need for
chemical pesticides.

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It starts from focusing on
the crop that the farmer is

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growing and figuring out
what the best technology is to

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produce the highest yielding and
the best quality crop.

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So our field biologists can take
all of these different tools

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and create this unique program
for the benefit of our farmers.

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Scientists say that all of
this research is critical to

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providing food to a growing
world population...

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You hear a lot of time,
you know, seven billion,

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going to nine
billion by 2050,

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and so those people are gonna
want a higher protein diet,

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much like we
enjoy here in the U.S.

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And so to feed those people
is gonna take a lot of

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technology, and we're
excited about it.

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And as for the work
being done in the lab...

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or on the plants at the
Ridge Vineyards...

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it's the potential for new
approaches

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to agriculture that make
the difference.

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I love to see something
that I've scaled up,

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or worked on in the
lab in small scale,

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to see it in the big
production tanks, to see,

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you know, tanker trucks of
the product in pallets,

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going out, being distributed
all over the world.

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To me that's
really exciting.

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♪♪

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Want a little wine trivia?

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It takes about 800
individual grapes

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to create just one bottle
of wine.

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Wine is produced in
every state in the U.S.

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even Hawaii which turns out
fruit flavored wines...

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some of them made from
pineapple.

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No matter where you live, in the
U.S. or overseas, it is a good

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bet that you enjoy wines from
California.

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That's because California
produces

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more than 80% of the
wine in America.

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But even with the lion's
share of the country's sales,

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some Golden State
vintners are looking to

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target new markets for
selling their products.

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Consider the diversity of
the winemaking industry:

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French, Italian, Chilean
and Australian vintners.

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On the American
vineyard scene,

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This is about
three years old.

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Winemaker Mac McDonald
will tell you that

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African American vintners are
not as well known.

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I travel around the country.
I've been to a lot of places, do

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a lot of wine dinners, do a lot
of "you know" charity events.

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And as I do these charity events
it all of a sudden it dawned on

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me that there was no African
Americans in my audience.

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That I personally made.

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Theodora Lee owns Theopolis
Vineyards in Cloverdale,

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California where she grows
petite syrah grapes.

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So, I want you to try it.

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I would love to try it.

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Because it is absolutely a kick.

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Raised in rural Texas,
she wasn't exposed to many

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wine drinkers 'til she
joined a law firm that

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employed several
vineyard owners.

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It smells amazing!

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Today as an African
American woman successfully

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conducting a wine business
-Theo says her heritage

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presents a whole new point
of view to the wine trade.

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African Americans - they
could get as much pleasure

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if they knew about the
quality of wine and that's

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what we're about-educating
and making it available to the

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public at large, but the African
American community specifically.

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And so as we were going
through this thing.

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Both Mac and Theo belong to

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the Association of African
American Vintners.

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It was founded around members
who could come together;

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create an opportunity for us
to talk,

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share resources and we
wanted to also provide an

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opportunity to
educate the public.

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Primarily African Americans,
but not only

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African Americans, about wine,
the wine industry

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and what the wine industry
can do.

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Mac's interest began as a 12
year old boy

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on his family's Texas farm.

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My father was a moonshine
maker by the name of Sue,

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long before Johnny Cash had
a song about a man named Sue.

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And there used to be a bunch
of attorneys and doctors and

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guys that came out of Houston
and Dallas and Ft. Worth,

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Texas that'd go hunting with my
grandfather cause he had all

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the various types of dogs
and they would drink my father's

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moonshine and one of those guys
used to drink burgundy.

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You know if you look at these
grapes here,

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next year we will have a lot.

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Sampling that burgundy began a
lifelong interest in wine.

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Today, Mac and
his wife, Lil,

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have realized their dream
of owning their own winery;

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a venture into viticulture
that puts Mac into

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a very small segment
of the industry.

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African Americans own fewer
than 5% of all

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of the wineries in the United
States-

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a statistic the association
wants to change.

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The fact that
we're successful,

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the fact that
we are out here,

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the fact that people
know we're out here;

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that will increase
opportunities and desires of

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other people to try it, to
get in the business and see

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if they can do
something with it.

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One of the goals of the
association is to direct

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more African American students
into careers in viticulture.

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Mac says the organization offers
scholarships and internships as

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a viable way of changing the
face of the industry.

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The idea is not to have it
a black thing but it's the

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idea is to get more African
Americans to drink wine.

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When you bring
diversity to the table,

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what you do is get a
different perspective;

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you get a different
approach than what

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your traditional general
population may do.

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I like spicy...
I'm a big fan of the spicy.

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Recent studies show that
spending by diverse groups

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can have a significant impact on
consumer segments of the economy

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The association thinks
that wine education,

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targeted marketing and
increased awareness can send

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more of those dollars
to wine sales.

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We're out here, we're
making quality product.

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We don't make African
American wine,

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we don't make black wine,
we make quality product.

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The association is not just
around African Americans.

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The majority wine industry;

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they love the fact that
we're out here. Why?

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Because it brings wine
consumers to them that they

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otherwise would
not have gotten.

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And just as that taste of
burgundy began the path for

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Mac McDonald, his goal is to
lay the groundwork

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for the next aspiring
winemaker of color.

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As for the future I just
hope that I can hang on long

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enough to see some
African American,

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male or female tap me on the
shoulder and say

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"old man I can make better
wine than you can."

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Californian's
like their wine!

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And not only does the Golden
State produce more than

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80% of the wine made in America.

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Californians drink a lot of
it as well-- enjoying,

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on average, one of every five
bottles consumed in the U.S.

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There is no doubt that
wine's popularity

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is on the rise across the U.S.

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You'll find it in more and
more grocery stores with a

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growing number of
varieties available.

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But for that new wine drinker it
can be a little overwhelming.

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So here's some help whether you
need to pick out

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a red or a white.

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♪♪

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Let's start with the names.

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And boy there are
a lot of them!

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Some varieties are named based
on the area

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where the grapes are grown.

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They can also be named
after the type of grape.

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Like Merlot or Pinot Noir.

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From fruity to dry,
you've got lots of choices

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when it comes to taste.

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You've probably heard white wine
with fish and reds with meat.

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But that basic guideline
is not always correct.

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A better way to think of it is
which wine will complement and

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not overwhelm the flavors of the
food that you are eating.

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A lighter wine goes
well with lighter fare.

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Heavier foods pair nicely
with heavier red wines.

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The good news: new wineries are
popping up all over the

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country with all kinds of
new flavors and varieties.

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And local winery owners are
more than happy

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to field your wine-related
questions.

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Especially if you buy a
bottle or two of their wine!

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Cheers!

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The bottom line on wine: If
you find a variety and brand

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that you enjoy, well you
don't have to spend a lot of

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time worrying about its
bouquet or notes of citrus.

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Hey... you like
it so who cares!

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But you've become a wine-drinker
now and that means you need to

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experiment a little bit with
lots of varieties of wine

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because you never know which one
your palate might prefer!

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♪♪

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Lots of us enjoy a glass
of wine when we dine with

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friends or enjoy a night out
at our favorite restaurant.

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And we've long paired
certain wines with meat or fish.

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A glass of wine
can enhance a meal.

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And if you're looking for
something special to serve with

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your favorite beverage,
well our Sharon Vaknin is in the

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kitchen with a main dish recipe
that just might fit the bill.

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♪♪

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Today's it's all
about chicken.

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We're making an old dish
new again

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with two fresh takes on the
ingredient.

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First, it's butterflied chicken
with a sun-dried tomato salsa.

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Then its honey-roasted
peanut crusted chicken with

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a coconut soy dipping sauce.

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First, let's get started
on that roasted chicken.

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Instead of leaving the
chicken whole when we roast it,

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we're going
to butterfly it.

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To butterfly it, we're going
to take out the backbone and to

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do that, the easiest way is to
use a pair of kitchen scissors.

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And go right in and cut along
the backbone

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right through the ribs.

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And the backbone is out.

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♪♪

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I want to season the inside.

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Now I've already poured out
my spices so that I don't

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have to worry about
contamination.

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Salt always.

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Put a nice helping
of salt in there.

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Pepper.

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And I like to throw in a little
bit of fresh minced garlic.

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You will not believe how juicy
this chicken is going to be.

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The inside is seasoned so let's
get it onto our baking sheet.

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Flip it right on top of these
onions that I've already sliced.

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And now, it's time to
season the outside.

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Salt.

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Ground black pepper and then
I love to add a little bit of

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sweet paprika just for color
and that light, delicate flavor.

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And before this
goes in the oven,

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I'll drizzle it with a little
bit of olive oil to help

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crisp up the skin but really,
you don't want to use a lot.

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The skin has enough fat
content to crisp on its own.

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I just need to go wash my
hands and this will go in

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the oven at 450 degrees for
about 30 to 35 minutes.

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With the chicken roasting,
let's work on that

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sun-dried tomato salsa.

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All we need are a few
vine tomatoes

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and we'll give them a good dice.

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Diced tomatoes
go in the bowl.

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Then we'll add
our minced garlic,

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sun-dried tomatoes
in oil, chili flakes,

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fresh ground black
pepper, salt, and basil.

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For the basil, I'll just
roll them up and run my

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knife right through
those leaves.

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Give this a stir and our
sun-dried tomato salsa is done.

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Our chicken's roasting and our
salsa's ready, and now it's time

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to work on our honey roasted
peanut crusted chicken thighs.

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This recipe is really simple
and it's a lot like making a

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regular breaded and fried
chicken but this time we're

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adding honey roasted peanuts
that goes in a Ziploc

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and we'll add Panko bread
crumbs into the mix.

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Make sure all
the air is out.

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And I'll use a rolling pin
to crush up those peanuts

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and makes sure they
stick to the chicken.

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Now we'll grab our tray.

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Pour that in there.

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Smells so good.

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Now we need our liquid
so I've got one egg and,

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instead of milk, we're
using coconut milk.

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It's a lot creamier and it'll
add that nice hint of flavor.

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We'll also add a little
bit of fresh black pepper.

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Now we can bread
our chicken thighs.

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Just dip it in our coconut
and egg right in there.

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Pat it down to make sure
it has a nice coating.

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We'll just repeat the same
process for all of the cuts.

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Our chicken thighs are
all crusted

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and they're ready to be fried.

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I have some oil heated up in
this cast iron pan;

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great for frying.

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We don't want to crowd
the pan too much,

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we want to give them enough
room to breathe and

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we don't want to cool down
the oil too much.

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While that fries, let's work on
our coconut soy dipping sauce.

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It's very simple.

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We just need a few
ingredients starting with

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soy sauce that goes
right into a pan.

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Then we'll add our coconut milk,
a little bit of

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chili garlic paste, and finally,
honey for sweetness.

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Now we'll bring this mixture
to a boil and

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we'll let it reduce for
about twenty minutes

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or until it's about
half in size.

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You know the thighs are ready
when both sides are a nice

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golden brown but don't be afraid
to take it off the heat

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and cut into it with a knife to
make sure that meat is white.

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That looks pretty good.

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Our last chicken thigh
is done and by now,

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our butterfly chicken should
be ready and both of these

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dishes are ready
to be served.

20:22.998 --> 20:27.464
With our butterfly chicken every
inch of that skin is crispy.

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Then we have our
honey roasted,

20:29.564 --> 20:33.631
peanut crusted chicken with
a coconut soy dipping sauce.

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It's sweet, it's salty,
and it looks beautiful.

20:37.764 --> 20:40.531
With these two fresh
takes on the ingredient,

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you get big, bold
flavors in every bite.

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I'd call this a winner,
winner chicken dinner!

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♪♪

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While we talk beverages
made from heartland crops,

20:56.431 --> 20:59.231
we can't overlook
beers and ales.

20:59.231 --> 21:01.831
Specialty beers have given
rise to a large number of

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small breweries all
across this country.

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Different ingredients and
regional tastes impact

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the kinds of beers being made.

21:09.898 --> 21:12.098
And that's certainly true
for one small brewery in

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Oregon where our Jason
Shoultz found that

21:14.498 --> 21:18.931
beer making is a
multi-family endeavor.

21:18.931 --> 21:22.431
Things are heating up
in Silverton, Oregon.

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So we got four 45- 48 gallons in
here we're going to boil off.

21:26.798 --> 21:29.964
Phill Knoll's small batch
of Maggie's Marzen

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wouldn't taste good in a
mug right now.

21:32.431 --> 21:34.731
It's going to take some time
and there's

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a key ingredient yet to
be added.

21:37.298 --> 21:38.531
Hops!

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Hops are vital to any beer.
And Phil would know.

21:41.531 --> 21:44.631
His day job is actually
teaching high school chemistry.

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But here, he's the head
brewer at Seven Brides Brewery

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What do good hops
do for the beer though?

21:50.398 --> 21:53.098
What is, how does it impact
the taste of the beer?

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Ok the taste of the beer,
the hops supply the bitterness.

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Seven Brides Brewery was
founded a few years back

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after five guys spent their
Saturday's brewing various

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beer batches in
their garages.

22:04.898 --> 22:07.198
We were brewing five gallons at
a time, then it went to ten.

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Then it went to thirty
and forty and it's like,

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ok guys, if we're gonna do
this let's do it right.

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And before long they
were doing just that.

22:15.298 --> 22:18.098
Now five friends who come
from different backgrounds:

22:18.098 --> 22:20.831
marketing... to engineering...
to chemistry

22:20.831 --> 22:23.431
are running their
own beer biz.

22:23.431 --> 22:25.264
And so far so good.

22:25.264 --> 22:28.198
They will sell upwards of
six thousand barrels of beer

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around the region this year.

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Our business model is not to
grow the business to get it

22:33.398 --> 22:36.998
as big as we can and
then sell it for profit.

22:36.998 --> 22:40.131
Our goal is to build a
company that we can hand

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down to our daughters and
have them step in and run it.

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More on just how important
those daughters are in a moment.

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But to find another key
ingredient

22:49.864 --> 22:51.798
to the Seven Brides success...

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Here we come.

22:53.331 --> 22:56.631
You'll have to visit nearby hops
farmer John Annen.

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And hear the story about the
refrigerator the guys

22:59.398 --> 23:03.364
were trying to sell online
on Craigslist.

23:03.364 --> 23:06.231
So I put an ad. on Craigslist
and, lo and behold,

23:06.231 --> 23:09.298
Johnny called, looking for a
refrigerator and we had one and

23:09.298 --> 23:12.664
it was too big and, you know,
one thing led to another.

23:12.664 --> 23:15.398
He came up, we were chatting and
realized

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that he was a hop farmer.

23:16.698 --> 23:18.298
And he says, "What are you going
to do with the refrigerator?"

23:18.298 --> 23:20.331
I said, "Well, we need it
for hop samples for our brewery-

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for the little
brewery guys."

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Brewers... meet long time hop
grower

23:25.098 --> 23:27.764
in an amazing moment of
serendipity.

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I grew up here.

23:28.531 --> 23:29.664
Johnny grew up here.

23:29.664 --> 23:30.964
We're five miles apart
and never met before.

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Never met.

23:32.098 --> 23:33.531
Never had any idea.

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Turns out most hops growers
here sell to large brewers.

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But John Annen was more
interested in

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direct sales to guys like Jeff.

23:41.864 --> 23:43.864
It's really fun workin'
with these guys.

23:43.864 --> 23:46.631
They're real honest,
hardworking, good people.

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And how about from a
grower's perspective?

23:48.831 --> 23:50.698
I mean, you know,
hops is in your blood.

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Hop growing is in
your blood, right?

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Yeah. I was born into it, yeah.

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I don't know
anything else so...

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And so to see that
satisfaction on their faces

23:57.498 --> 23:58.964
must be pretty
rewarding for you.

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Oh, man, it's- it's like the
best thing in the world.

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Back at Seven Brides, it's
time for those all-important

24:05.598 --> 24:07.764
hops to be added
to the brew!

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Dump those in!

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Alright. Sprinkle them in.

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And these are from John Annen's
place just down the road, right?

24:14.231 --> 24:15.531
John Annen's place just
down the road.

24:15.531 --> 24:17.198
Oooh, smells good.

24:17.198 --> 24:18.931
And out front in the tap room
restaurant

24:18.931 --> 24:22.298
they're serving up their
brews and grub.

24:22.298 --> 24:24.531
At one of the tables, the
brewer's namesake-

24:24.531 --> 24:27.998
the seven brides.

24:27.998 --> 24:30.098
...well, someday anyway.

24:30.098 --> 24:31.998
Back when the guys were
thinking about starting this

24:31.998 --> 24:34.331
business they had seven
little girls...

24:34.331 --> 24:39.064
daughters and nieces who might,
someday, need expensive weddings

24:39.064 --> 24:40.298
So...

24:40.298 --> 24:42.164
That got brought up one
afternoon and it's like well,

24:42.164 --> 24:44.064
if we're gonna do this
we might as well earmark

24:44.064 --> 24:47.331
some funds for it and so
that's kind of become one of

24:47.331 --> 24:50.598
our taglines is you know
we've got seven daughters

24:50.598 --> 24:52.664
and seven weddings
to pay for.

24:52.664 --> 24:53.964
It's not every little
girl who gets

24:53.964 --> 24:55.964
a micro beer named after her!

24:55.964 --> 24:58.398
And not every group of
buddies who get to turn a

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hobby into a
successful business!

25:01.131 --> 25:04.131
You know, we get to tell people
we make beer for a living!

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