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A Beer Buoyed by Dead Sea Salt Is Taking the Craft World by Storm

Rising stars and beer veterans alike are helping bring Carakale, the first craft brewery in Jordan, to the United States.
Photographer: Matt Coats

When you’re trying to open a brewery in a predominantly Muslim country, you do a lot of things yourself. At least that’s what Yazan Karadsheh, the founder of the first craft brewery in Jordan, learned.

When he started the venture, in 2010, there was no government application for a brewery license, much less a vocabulary for such terms as “craft brewery,” “hoppiness,” or “malt.”