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Kölsch Crush: The Crowd-Pleasing German Ale Finds a Fresh Following

Imbibe Magazine

Even then, in the mid-2010s, Texas was thick with IPAs and pilsners, two styles with proven track records of pleasing crowds of drinkers. Australian brewers produce Czech-style pilsners, while Argentinians knock out hazy New England IPAs. They’re not going to find it divisive and say, ‘Well, this tastes like craft beer.’”

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

VinePair

This New Zealand-style pilsner is dry hopped with Rakau, Nelson Sauvin, and Motueka, all grown by Freestyle Hops, who are putting out some of the best hops in the world. All the sweetness is cut by a drier finish, leading to a well-balanced hoppy lager with the perfect amount of bitterness.” Greeley, Colo.

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

VinePair

The device was inspired, Standaert says, by a 2018 book by Kevin Verstrepen, a professor of genetics and genomics at Leuven University. To “brew” a beer, users can simply push a button and get a standard recipe, or use sliders to adjust characteristics like bitterness and amount of alcohol.

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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

A bad experience with bitter beers can linger. For much of the brewery’s first half decade, Kunz worked first by himself and then with one other person to make and distribute his pilsners and IPAs. Highland Park opened a second location in Chinatown in 2018, and crowds soon filled the sunny, spacious taproom’s communal tables.

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Breweries Are Turning Up the Heat on Winter Beer

Imbibe Magazine

Loggerheads were invented to make tar or pitch more pliable; plunging them into flips lent a bitterness and burnt character beloved by 18th-century drinkers. Poking lighter beers like pilsners or IPAs can negatively amplify hop bitterness.) I especially taste it in our pilsners,” Josephson says.

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The 30 Best Breweries in the Country Right Now, According to Beer Pros (2024)

VinePair

As for the beers, on the Schell side are a light, of course, Vienna lager, German pilsner, a pale ale, and seasonals that include dark German lager and Klsch. Counter Weight is also well known for its lagers; their Workhorse pilsner is my preferred order when getting wings at the famous J. Pilot Brewing Company Charlotte, N.C.

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The 22 Best New Breweries of the Year, According to Beer Pros

VinePair

What brand-new brewery thrilled most in the last year, enticing them back for another pint of squeaky-clean pilsner or an expressive IPA with explosive aromatic pop? My personal favorites are their High Five German-style pilsner and Little Birds, a Jamaican-style lager brewed with cassava starch. That is me! That space sits on 12.5

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