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World’s most expensive beer in Seattle?

Sunshine Archambault, a Standing Rock Sioux Tribe citizen, said she sees the younger generation are interested in learning Lakota/Dakota and want to provide opportunities for them to learn. Photo credit/ Adrianna Adame

Called the world’s most expensive beer, a bottle of Samuel Adams Utopias has sold on eBay for roughly $900. At West Seattle’s Super Deli Mart, a renowned specialty beer mart, they’ve received only two bottles and offered $30 tickets for a tasting of that and six other reserve beers. And the 48 tickets for that one-ounce tasting sold out in a day. Sam Adams, which released its first Utopias batch in 2002, is mostly known for its Boston Lager. But Super Deli Mart owner Min Chung said people don’t realize the company also makes many rare, renowned beers. The Utopias is a triple bock with an unusually high alcohol content […]

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Jodi Rave Spotted Bear

Jodi Rave Spotted Bear is the founder and director of the Indigenous Media Freedom Alliance, a 501-C-3 nonprofit organization with offices in Bismarck, N.D. and the Fort Berthold Reservation. Jodi spent 15 years reporting for the mainstream press. She's been awarded prestigious Nieman and John S. Knight journalism fellowships at Harvard and Stanford, respectively. She also an MIT Knight Science Journalism Project fellow. Her writing is featured in "The Authentic Voice: The Best Reporting on Race and Ethnicity," published by Columbia University Press. Jodi currently serves as a Society of Professional Journalists at-large board member, an SPJ Foundation board member, and she chairs the SPJ Freedom of Information Committee. Jodi has won top journalism awards from mainstream and Native press organizations. She earned her journalism degree from the University of Colorado at Boulder.