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PHOENIX—Ron Kloth, a third-generation Californian whose family grew oranges and whose father monitored crop yields for the California agriculture department, loved making wine. His indulgent and adventurous parents (his mother, a telephone operator, had emigrated from Canada) let him. Ron was 9. “I made wine and they let me drink it because it was undrinkable, it

By the mid-1980s, the beer scene in Arizona, which hosts Super Bowl XLIX this weekend, was bleak. The state’s only brewery to make it out of Prohibition for any length of time—eight tried—was the Phoenix-based Arizona Brewing Co. That brewery began to shed consumers, however, as Phoenix’s post World War II population boomed, the newcomers