At This Bogotá Brewery, Former Guerrillas Dish Out Craft Beer
La Trocha’s brews are a hit, but Colombia’s peace process still lags behind implementation, leaving an aftertaste of fear for the future.
BOGOTÁ—On a recent Saturday night in Bogotá, La Casa de la Paz, a red-brick, three-story Victorian house, was packed with people sipping glasses of craft beer suffused with notes of passionfruit, açaí and coffee. But amid the lively chatter, serious issues were on the minds of the customers—from the critical state of peace negotiations with the ELN, Colombia’s largest rebel group, to a recent truck driver strike in reaction to the government’s decision to hike diesel prices. That’s because La Casa de La Paz is both the house of La Trocha (Spanish for ‘trail’), an...
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