Awards and accolades
GOLD MEDAL: Traveling Companions Barrel-aged Saison with Lindenblossom, Citra, & Hallertau Blanc - 2023 Oregon Beer Awards Mixed Culture category
Best in Beer 2021 Readers’ Choice, Who Brews it Best? by Craft Beer & Brewing, Nov. 11, 2021 (placed #9 overall worldwide)
Best in Beer 2021 Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries By Size, by Craft Beer & Brewing, Nov. 11, 2021 (placed #18 overall worldwide)
Winner, silver medal, Mixed-Culture category, Friends in Far Places, Oregon Beer Awards, 2021.
Winner, beer category, Pesca and Instinctive Travels, Good Food Awards, 2023.
hot press
The Best Things We Drank in July, Michael Alberty, WINE ENTHUSIAST, July 31, 2023
At Wolves & People Farmhouse Brewery In Newberg, A New Team Builds A Sustainable Groove, Andre Meunier, The Oregonian, June 15, 2023.
Good Food Awards Go To 15 Socially Responsible Breweries, Gary Stoller, Forbes, April 26, 2023.
SUPERABUNDANT, Season One, Ep, One, Created by Arya Surowidjojo and MacGregor Campbell, Oregon Public Broadcasting, May 18, 2021
A Long, Delicious Weekend in Newberg, Oregon, by Allen Cox, Northwest Travel and Life Magazine, 2023.
Oregon’s Destination-Worthy Breweries, by Matt Wastradowski, TravelOregon.com, May 21, 2021
How the Oregon Truffle Bends Humans to its Will, by Francisca Benitez, Oregon Public Broadcasting, May 18, 2021
Case Study: Wolves & People, by Joe Stange, Craft Beer & Brewing/INDUSTRY GUIDE, June 9, 2020
Modern Brewers Are Embracing an Ancient Winemaking Apparatus, by Zoe Baillargeon, Wine Enthusiast, August, 2020
Podcast Episode 150: Christian DeBenedetti of Wolves and People is Bringing Brewing Back to His Roots, by Jamie Bogner, Craft Beer & Brewing, August 2020
Taste The Terroir, by Tim Neville, Outside Magazine, June 2018
Interview, Christian DeBenedetti, Founder of Wolves & People, in All About Beer (by Sophia McDonald, November, 2018)
Brew Found Glory: America's Best New Breweries (by Caroline Coral, Tasting Table, August 7, 2017)
Go Farmhouse or Fancy in the Epicenter of Oregon Wine (by Danielle Centoni & Caroline Craighead, Seattle Monthly, August 2017)
He Turned His Childhood Farm Into a Brewery (by Hopstories & Craftbeer.com, August 8, 2017)
Wolves & People: Oregon’s Coziest New Farmhouse Brewery (by Carly Diaz, 1859 Magazine, March 16, 2017)
Class of 2016: 34 of the Best New Breweries in the USA (by Brad Japhe, Beer Advocate magazine, January 2017)
A New Brewery in Oregon Pinot Land (by Megan Krigbaum; Food & Wine, 8/20/15)
press requests
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