Friday

BYCU

Feel-good beer story of the year: Local self-taught beer expert overcoming autism with hope and help. The autistic guy is pretty impressive in the important things: "Rice, 55, of Vermilion, owns thousands of beer cans. He can tell you the story of where and when he acquired each one. He can tell you the history of each brewery. He also has a vast collection of books about beer. He knows every detail: When a certain brewery was founded, how much it produced, when it closed."