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A Roanoke brewery celebrating its fifth anniversary has revealed how COVID-19’s lingering effects impacted its beer quality until recently.
Golden Cactus Brewing, located in downtown Roanoke’s West Station area, opened during the height of the pandemic in August 2020. Now, Head Brewer Evan Graham has disclosed that he suffered from COVID-related loss of smell that affected his ability to perfect his beer recipes.
COVID impact on craft beer production
“I feel like there were a couple of years where I had COVID-nose whenever we were brewing the beer, and I don’t think it was as quality as it should be,” Graham explained. “Now I finally came out of that and I’ve rectified some of the issues I was having with the beers.”…