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Why Craft Brewers Are Migrating From Cities to Suburbs

Imbibe Magazine

Fast-forward to today, and craft beer fans that spent their 20s and 30s drinking hazy IPAs in downtown taprooms, driving the industrys explosive growth, are older and grayer. Photo by Nat and Cody At its core, a taproom is a gathering place to enjoy beverages, alcohol not always included. In part thats because of parking.

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The Evolution of the IPA, from 19th Century England to Now

VinePair

And though people love to loathe them, IPAs are the current bread and butter of the American craft brewing industry. Part of the style’s success are its numerous substyles, which have allowed IPAs to straddle nearly every major beer category on the market. There’s very little that the IPA hasn’t been able to achieve.

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

VinePair

In January, brewery president and cofounder Dave Thibodeau hit the slopes with a Ska snowboard that outlived its advertised beer: Moral Panic, a bone-dry brut IPA that debuted in 2018 and disappeared in late 2021. A fizzy, fragrant, Champagne-inspired IPA couldn’t hack it in a world gone hazy.

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

Imbibe Magazine

Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. Integrating activities creates “a healthier approach to alcohol.” Everyone’s a winner with a favorite IPA or lager in hand. Not everyone wants to spend afternoons analyzing tasting flights.

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A High-Tech ‘Beer Printer’ From Belgium Wants to Digitize the Drinking Experience

VinePair

Since then, members of the public have been able to sample lager; blonde, brown, and triple ales; and IPA made by the small countertop device at trade fairs and other events in Belgium. “I Mixing a bunch of molecules together to make a decent IPA in an instant might seem like a big win. Surprisingly, his take is far more positive.

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China Isn’t the Answer for U.S. Craft Brewers’ Woes, but It Could Be Part of It

VinePair

My own interest in the current state of Sino-American IPA relations was piqued by a recent report from the market-research firm IWSR, which noted that after the past few years of pandemic-related challenges, Chinese drinkers were returning to premium-price-point beers. I’ve been in China and found two-year-old IPAs sitting on the shelf.”

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We Asked 22 Brewers: What’s the Best New Beer of 2023?

VinePair

In a year when some breweries closed and others bought golf courses , when hazy IPAs matured and New Jersey‘s governor did exactly the opposite, a cornucopia of new beers came out (and promptly got checked in). In general, I gravitated toward balanced and lower-alcohol, yet flavor-forward, beers. This beer, although 6.6

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