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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

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1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. In that time, we’ve seen the beer industry go from malty English IPAs to dank West Coast options — teeth-chatteringly bitter double and then triple and even quadruple IPAs — to softer, fruitier, and hazier New England-style options. What can I say, it was a different time.

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Review: Beers of Firestone, Early 2025 Releases

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I don’t think they take a day off at Firestone, where the brews arrive on a breakneck pace, running the gamut from barrel-aged monstrosities to ultra-hoppy IPAs to, for the first time ever, a non-alcoholic beer. I’m not going to belabor it, so let’s just dive right in. Gently tropical on the finish, but never sweet.

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

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craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. If craft breweries were once started by people with a pure passion for drinking “better beer,” eventually they started to be seen as easy money by entrepreneurial types. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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14 things we discovered at Flauer Alassio 2025

The Cocktail Lovers

Sometimes bitter, sometimes sour, one reminiscent of lemon, another of orange. Following a painstaking six years and a half years of extensive restoration Villa della Pergola opened in 2012 and now boasts over 40 varieties of Wisteria. Perfect pairing: cod, turnips, clams and violets with Floral Bitters 13.

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Brut Busts and Brett Who? The Next Big IPA Sub-Styles That Never Were

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annually collaborates with Venture Snowboards on a Ska-themed snowboard that might feature its logo, dapper skeleton mascot, or a new beer. She was like, ‘That was my favorite beer. To this day, it’s still one of our favorite beers that we’ve made.” Who wants a bitter black IPA during summer? Ska Brewing in Durango, Colo.,

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Beer Facts

The Liquor Thing

How far you know about beer? Here are some interesting facts about beer that you should know before taking a sip. Ever thought why beer is not sold in a plastic bottle? Beers, as well as all liquors, are not sold in plastic bottles. As a result, it can affect the quality of beer and decrease its shelf life.

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Review: Breckenridge High Proof Blend Bourbon and Back to Back Blend Bourbon

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Breckenridge Distillery is no stranger to Drinkhacker, though we’ve been keeping tabs more recently on their Buddy Pass collaborations with the coincidentally named but unrelated Breckenridge Brewery and their beer/bourbon barrel aging crossovers. The quick recap is that the distillery boasts the highest elevation in the U.S.,

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