Imbibe Magazine

JULY 2, 2025

Northeast Maine Maine & Loire (Portland) For more than a decade, Orenda and Peter Hale have operated this elegant wine shop and daytime bar (last call for counter service is 5pm) in Portland’s East Bayside neighborhood. Head across the street to the team’s wine bar, Whoopsie Daisy. Eager to keep the party going?

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 21, 2023

We here at A Bar Above obviously love cocktails– as do you, I’m sure, since you’re on this site. Plus, for those of us in the hospitality industry, offering a thoughtfully-crafted, non-alcoholic option for guests who are not drinking alcohol– for whatever reason– is just excellent service and good business.

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VinePair

JUNE 24, 2024

It was the most labor-intensive beer that we’d made,” Ramey says of the canned Michelada , first released in early 2020. Simpler Cheladas contain beer, lime juice, and salt, while more complex Micheladas contain tomato or clam juice and seasonings like soy, hot, and Worcestershire sauces.)

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 19, 2024

Both brewery locations are now on our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. Big Grove Brewery released a new fruited lager whose proceeds will help plant up to 400 new trees , mostly in Cedar Rapids where a 2020 derecho took out 65% of the area’s tree canopy. High five to Javier and Jose for making it happen.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Brewbound has some very interesting data on the massive growth Octopi has seen in the last few years, starting with a 441% increase in 2020 alone, with further increases in ‘21 and ‘22. This is a cool idea — a combination craft beer taproom and record store opened up in Lisle called the Crooked Arm Vinyl & Tap.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

To the bar! Pilot Project has helped Beer Kulture Women of the Bevolution Creator Launchpad grant recipient and Momentum Cider founder Mo Grey to launch her first beer , a cranberry Berliner Weiss called “Cran I Kick It? ” WGN-TV’s Try My Job feature looked at how Guinness Chicago brews their beer.

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VinePair

MARCH 12, 2024

Anheuser-Busch released the summer seasonal in 2020, and customers could stroll into a gas station or supermarket and snag a 30-pack for $22 or so. Bars infused Busch Light with cinnamon and fresh apples. Busch Light Apple was neither rare nor expensive. I liked having it on hand,” he says.

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

soju, elevated cocktail bars roost in skyscrapers, and bands blare everything from Afrobeat to zydeco. But to Sarah Hallonquist and Loretta Andro Chung, one category was lacking: lesbian bars, of which just three existed as recently as 2022. Every old-school dyke bar tends to have a pool table,” says Hallonquist.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

His intimate Los Angeles bar, Alma’s Cider & Beer , which opened in 2021, is a 558-square-foot jewel box bathed in three shades of blue, decorated with quirky dioramas and a chandelier evoking flying saucers. Sometimes people don’t know that we’re a cider bar.” Craft beer distorts the concept of locality.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2025

Spirit-free bars and bottle shops are popping up across the United States, and curious consumers can now peruse aisles of zero-proof spirits, wine, beer, and RTDs. Arizona The Nixer (So)Bar (Phoenix) After Brad Bridwell quit drinking in June 2020, he explored the alcohol replacements he found online. ” she said.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

With thousands of breweries worldwide, craft beer has become a global sensation. Many of these producers are tucked away in destinations one may consider craft beer meccas. Thats why were sharing the very best destinations for beer travel that venture off the beaten path.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 14, 2025

Berg loved craft beer, the local music scene and Timberwolves basketball, famously helping to make Falling Knife a big destination for Wolves games since opening the brewery in 2019. He was also a part of the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild Board of Directors. Milwaukee’s beer garden season is underway.

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VinePair

MAY 22, 2025

In a warm but excited voice, he would introduce every one of his reels the same way: Im Alan and Ive had over 2,900 different beers. As craft beer began to boom in the aughts and 2010s, so emerged the ticker. A person most often a man obsessed with trying (or ticking) as many different beers as humanly possible.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

I polled some of the other Guys and Eric shared one that I didn’t see coming: “My Valentine's Day beer is Catch Hell by Half Acre. This BA stout with cinnamon and vanilla was first released around Valentine's Day in 2020. I raced up to Half Acre on Lincoln at lunch, had a sample, and bought three two-pack cans. Go drink it.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Those hard seltzer brands broke wide as a broadly appealing commodity that looked clearly different, becoming an easy-to-enjoy answer to all that complex craft beer. As a business move for craft breweries, making hard seltzer seemed smart on the surface. Here’s a beer that tastes different, brewed right down the road.

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VinePair

MARCH 20, 2025

In a 2020 interview with The Sacramento Bee, Big Sexy Brewing Company co-founder James Thompson explained that Big Sexy was a nickname given to his best friend Mark. The shelves behind the bar were lined with trinkets and vintage ceramic figurines. Apparently, the beer was nothing to write home about, but the vibe was immaculate.

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VinePair

MARCH 31, 2025

Its easy to pass over unless you know about it, says Nick Madden, head bartender at San Francisco whiskey bar Elixir , who regularly recommends Old Potrero to guests. Maytag showed a similar prescience with Old Potrero, betting that consumers would respond as positively to craft whiskey as they did to craft beer.

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VinePair

MAY 5, 2025

Craft beer was just on the precipice of booming. To help determine the most important and influential tequilas of the past 25 years, I spoke with multiple experts in the category, ranging from tequila bar owners and restaurateurs to fellow journalists and authors to longtime tequila collectors and connoisseurs.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 17, 2025

On Friday, the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild announced that this year’s Beer Under Glass, the kickoff event for Illinois Craft Beer Week would be held at “the acclaimed Millennium Park Harris Theater Rooftop Terrace in the heart of Downtown Chicago.”

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The craft beer world is filled with passionate opinions and nowhere more so than among those who wield notebooks and pens. Ask any three beer writers to name the countrys single best brewery, and youre likely to get over a dozen well-argued responses, from the totally obvious to the truly arcane. August Schell Brewing Co.

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VinePair

MARCH 18, 2025

It seems weird to say now, but I couldnt stand beer back then. I used to feel so cool sitting next to my punk rock boyfriends in shitty bars drinking headless shaker pints of #9 out of dirty glasses. We were just trying to find a way to sell beer. At Rutgers University in the 2000s, one co-ed frat had set beers for occasions.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Around the country, craft brewers keep pushing the boundaries to achieve new flavors, developing hitherto unknown ways to pack the most refreshment possible into a single glass. The merger at the start of the year is an interesting defensive maneuver in a rapidly changing craft beer marketplace. Great can art, too!

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VinePair

MAY 1, 2025

The trade organization, which ambitiously predicted that its volume share of the overall United States beer market would be 20 percent by 2020 just over a decade ago , saw more breweries close than open last year the first time thats happened since two decades ago. Craft beer isnt dying. percent last year.)

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VinePair

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Soon after, he came to collect on the hot-but-cooling American craft brewing business, buying SweetWater Brewing Co. for around $300 million in November 2020. The argument that craft beer needs a new story to tell if its third wave is ever going to crest scans for me. I’ve never built a brand from scratch, he says.

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