VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

And weve tried them all from buzzy pop-ups-turned-restaurants to two of the citys most highly anticipated new cocktail bars. On the beer front, craft breweries and bars impressed us with their frothy pours and bold flavors that are well worth a visit, too. Here, banchan are the stars. Schmuck Martini at schmuck.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 16, 2025

A few quick brewery status changes to report at the tail end of this Illinois Craft Beer Week: First the bad news: FoGDB Darryl kindly informed us that after not being able to find a buyer, Bosacki’s Brewery in Mundelein closed at the end of April. Also this weekend: Indeed Brewing hosts their Whirlygig 2025 fest in Minneapolis.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 9, 2025

I did a quick spin around many of the social media channels for breweries this morning, working to find any evidence of Illinois Craft Beer Week outside of Beer Under Glass. I found a lot of breweries advertising the guild’s passport program, and releasing a few new beers, but outside of that: pretty much crickets.

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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

JANUARY 31, 2025

At an independently owned restaurant, or brewery, or bar, from now until the end of March. Spiteful Brewing has been at it for a long time, so I’m a bit surprised to discover that they’re holding their very first beer dinner (with Beard+Belly ) on Feburary 6th at their taproom. I want a Jeopardy bar league!

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VinePair

MAY 20, 2025

So Jon blends Penns Best NA with excellent craft beers for his nightly tipples. He also likes its neutral clean lager flavor, which blends well and stays in the background of the good craft beers he blends it with. Back around 2007, I was managing a 400-bottle craft beer bar while in grad school in Gainesville, Fla.

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2025

While we could sing the praises of various craft beers until the cows come home, sometimes nothing hits like a familiar, mass-produced brew. Sure, there are many people who pride themselves on sticking to local options, but macro beers wouldnt be macros if they werent so accessible and widely beloved. My go-to macro beer is PBR.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 12, 2025

Since we’ve been attending Beer Under Glass events for over a decade, it’s only right that I make you read my takeaways and thoughts on this year’s event the way we started: In a blog post. Craft Beer Week kickoff coverage came from Fox-32 Chicago , ABC-7 and WIFR. bottles for the first time ever.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 3, 2025

(I got two offering me samples from “Beer Girl” just now.) An email announcing this year’s Hops for Heroes 2025 Campaign, sent by a brewery in Texas, included a mention of a participating beermaker called Great Chicago Fire Brewery. 3,000 drinkers attended the recent Mardi Gras themed Lake County Craft Beer Festival.

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VinePair

MARCH 19, 2025

One of the major takeaways from craft beers enduring haze craze is that many drinkers are creatures of habit. They fall in love with a few styles and often ignore the unknown in favor of familiarity whenever they visit a bar or taproom. Derek Gallanosa, director of beer operations, GOAL.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 13, 2025

As we head into 2025, I thought I’d take your pulse real quick, especially as we’ve added hundreds of new subscribers/friends to this group over the last year or so. If we’ve helped you be a better drinker or a more informed member of the beer/beverage industry, please consider adding your support.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 27, 2025

As such, they’ve been added to our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. Destination Cleveland’s brewery passport program is back for 2025 with several new options to visit , including … wait, there’s a Cleveland brewery called Crooked Pecker ? I could use a 55-foot bar and a church pew.

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Bar Magazine

MARCH 14, 2025

All data Westons Cider Report 2025, CGA Strategy OPMS, P12 MAT to 30/11/2024 unless otherwise stated. The 10 th edition of the Westons Cider Report reveals how premium and crafted apple cider is shaping the on-trade landscape. Fast-forward to 2025, and that prediction has become reality. in value to 1.97 of draught cider volume.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 20, 2025

There’s a lot of closures and conflict to discuss this week so let’s start with something pleasant: Moor’s Brewing Company announced plans to partner with Steep Ravine and open a sports bar/brewery in the former Ravinia Brewing space (which, of course, is Steep Ravine’s prior brand) on Diversey. Thanks for reading!

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Here are nine drinks trends we hope to never see in 2025. Clarifying Everything Under the Sun Were all for experimentation and technical innovation behind the bar. While some of these revamped classics on bar menus undoubtedly pull it off, like Superbuenos Vodka y Soda , most are overwrought.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Spiteful Brewing has been at it for a long time, so I’m a bit surprised to discover that they’re holding their very first beer dinner (with Beard+Belly ) on Feburary 6th at their taproom. 7-8, Milwaukee’s Sugar Maple beer bar is turning the a Spongebob-themed “Bar-kini Bottom.” Lineup TBD.

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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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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

The brewer has unveiled Rebel IPA this week and will be giving away thousands of free pints at their bars in Wales Tiny Rebel, Wales largest independent brewery and a trailblazer of innovation in the UKs craft beer scene, has just dropped a new crowning glory Rebel IPA their brand-new Session IPA. And its a game-changer.

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Bar Magazine

MARCH 26, 2025

Damm, the renowned Spanish beer company, has secured a distribution agreement with Northern Monk, one of the United Kingdoms largest independent craft breweries. Under this partnership, Damm will assume distribution of Northern Monks key brands, Faith (5%) and A Little Faith (4%) in the UK On Trade, effective from May 2025.

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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

APRIL 7, 2025

The hot dog AND the beer.) Tangled Roots Craft Beer & Kitchen will open on Wednesday in Washington, IL. The Brewers Association announced their 2025 Industry Awards would include a posthumous award for Ron Jeffries of Jolly Pumpkin. Now open in Noblesville: The state’s biggest biergarten at Bier Brewery.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

Were reaching a portion of the community that hasnt been served by bars or breweries for a long time, or ever. Modern brewing boomed in the 2010s by extending beer to extremes. Mikey McFerran owns the Spaniard , a New York City bar and restaurant, and has worked in hospitality half of his life.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Let’s support that , rather than just matching our calendars to the dates where a trade organization decided years ago where to put American Craft Beer Week. This is a perilous winter for American craft breweries. Hell, the BA doesn’t even have this year’s beer week on their calendar yet. Good news (?):

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Beer professionals on either side of the bar carefully follow whos doing what and have strong opinions about which beer makers you should keep an eye on going forward. What stands out in 2025? Alexander Gates, beer judge and writer , Honolulu, Hawaii. Their reasons are various. Cerebral Brewing Denver, Colo.

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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

MAY 1, 2025

The question that brought Americas craft brewers and fellow travelers to Indianapolis this final week of April for the 2025 Craft Brewers Conference, though, is what the hell theyre supposed to do about it. Craft beer isnt dying. Not desperation, per se.

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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. The argument that craft beer needs a new story to tell if its third wave is ever going to crest scans for me. for around $300 million in November 2020. I’ve never built a brand from scratch, he says.

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VinePair

APRIL 17, 2025

Heres your Hop Take Quarterly Beer Business Report Card for the first frame of 2025. With respect to the good people at BeerBoard, every successive batch of data they sent me on draft sales these past three months depressed me a bit more than the last and I dont even own a bar. Or milk-sugarcoat it , which used to work.)

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

If everything you knew about the beer business came from LinkedIn, you could be forgiven for wondering what Van Munchings concern was. After all, to the casual observer (then, and especially now), packaged beer looks a lot like the other shelf-stable stuff sold alongside it at the supermarket. Soda, candy bars, mayonnaise you name it.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 26, 2024

Still, my penultimate column of 2024 was a reflection on the year that unfolded for the countrys ~9,700 breweries, so it feels editorially appropriate to use these inches to look ahead to 2025. The long-awaited/-feared arrival of the 2025 USDA dietary guidelines. Whether the mortar between Big Craft and Small Craft finally crumbles.

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VinePair

APRIL 22, 2025

has held an enviable position, almost universally admired as the home of cocktail culture and the inspiration for dozens of American bars that appeared across Europe, to say nothing of craft beer and the third-wave coffee movement. for events like Tales of the Cocktail and Bar Convent Brooklyn. cocktail renaissance.

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VinePair

MAY 15, 2025

Earlier this month, the American Association of Wine Economists published an analysis of the United States Department of Commerces export figures for the category from March 2025 the second full month of the Trump administrations economic rage-room routine. beer exporters, which collectively shipped $383.3 percent nosedive.

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