Phone Services. Local Phone. Polar Communications provides local phone service to the following counties in North Dakota: Cass, Cavalier, Grand Forks, Griggs, Nelson, Pembina, Steele, Ramsey and Walsh. Polar Communications also provides service in the Minnesota counties of Kittson and Marshall.
According to their website, the Brewers Association's purpose is to promote and protect small and independent American brewers, their craft beers and the community of brewing enthusiasts.. In order to do so, craft beer had to be defined. Again, from the website, a craft brewer is small, independent and traditional..
Craft brewer retail dollar value in 2011 was an estimated $8.7 billion, up from $7.6 billion in 2010. As of March 26, 2012, the Brewers Association is aware of 250 brewery openings in 2011 (174 microbreweries and 76 brewpubs) and 37 brewery closings (12 microbreweries and 25 brewpubs).ounting brewpubs and microbreweries, the brewery industry in the US includes more than 2,000 establishments, according to the Brewers Association. Annual beer production in the US is about 230 million hectoliters, according to the Barth-Haas Group.