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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Beer Craft Beer IPA Stout 126

VinePair

MARCH 19, 2025

One of the major takeaways from craft beers enduring haze craze is that many drinkers are creatures of habit. Theres nothing inherently wrong with that, but theres a lot of opportunity for discovery in the beer space, and many incredible styles go largely ignored in the thickets of hazy IPAs , stouts , and macro lagers.

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Beer Stout IPA Pub 124

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. bottles, the original Goose Island Bourbon County Stout will be sold in four-packs of 10oz. bottles for the first time ever.

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Beer Craft Beer Pilsner Stout 130

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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Beer Craft Beer Stout Pub 130

Drinkhacker

APRIL 4, 2025

For whiskey enthusiasts and stout lovers alike, Virginia Distillery has crafted something truly unique with the latest release in their Brewer’s Coalition series. is an ambitious collaboration that merges the worlds of craft whiskey and craft beer. Lets dive in and find out!

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Stout Infusions Whiskey Craft Beer 93

VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Shawn Cooper, co-founder, Halfway Crooks Beer , Atlanta In an era where dark beers are dominated by gigantic, sweet pastry stouts , it can be hard to find dark beers outside of that realm especially when you delve into the world of dark lagers, where many brewers simply don’t tread.

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Beer IPA Bitters Craft Beer 115

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 20, 2025

In less fun news, we have our first Chicagoland closure of 2025: Longtime Waukegan brewer Ten Ninety has reportedly shuttered. Tis the season for paczki stout news, starting with this story about the return of Griffin Claw’s version. Northern Express highlighted this cacao and coconut imperial stout from Elder Piper.

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Beer Stout Craft Beer Pub 130

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 27, 2025

As such, they’ve been added to our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. MLive’s headline implies that a chocolate glazed donut stout is too weird to believe, but Griffin Claw teamed up with Dutch Girl Donuts to make just that. Market Garden Brewery announced a few new beers and a taproom revamp for 2025.

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Beer Stout IPA Craft Beer 130

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Goldfinger’s Dark Lager Day 2025 is set for February 8. Madison’s Working Draft is hosting a Swedish beer celebration on the 8th. February 9th is Hopleaf’s twelfth-annual Super Stout Sunday. On February 15, the newly created American Craft Beer Hall of Fame will announce their inaugural inductees.

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Stout Beer IPA Craft Beer 130

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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Beer Craft Beer Stout Pilsner 60

PubClub

APRIL 28, 2025

Burning Beard Brewing’s In Praise of Bacchus is a Gold Medal-winning beer. San Diego County Breweries won big at the 2025 Brewers Cup Of California. From Carlsbad to El Cajon, craft breweries across San Diego County showed well once again in our state capital, said Brewers Guild Executive Director Erik Fowler.

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IPA Stout Craft Beer Pilsner 52

VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Here are nine drinks trends we hope to never see in 2025. Innovation In Beer and Flavored Malt Beverages (FMBs) From hazy IPAs and bizarre adjuncts to pastry stouts and fruited slushie sours, theres always been innovation in craft beer. But when it comes to clarification, enough is enough.

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Highball Beer Craft Beer Wine 91

VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It used to be that once a week there was an exciting one-off beer release that had fans rushing to breweries and stores — and then rushing to social media to post their scores. The yearly Bourbon County stout madness. of bourbon-barrel-aged imperial stout with a subtle white label, packaged in a classy box.

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Stout Beer Craft Beer Pilsner 122

Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

Modern brewing boomed in the 2010s by extending beer to extremes. Excess equaled excellence in IPAs and imperial stouts, and customers craved more, more, more. Back then, brewing giants developed NA lagers that mimicked mainstream beers with middling flavor. Because nonalcoholic beer doesnt have alcohol, it can freeze.

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Beer IPA Stout Alcohol 233

VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With that in mind, we asked 16 beer professionals to name their most overrated beer styles for 2025. Most NA beers on the market are poor representatives of craft beer. Hazy IPA is one of two most overrated beer styles in my opinion (the second being fruited blonde ales). Asheville, N.C.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Stout 115

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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Beer IPA Pilsner Craft Beer 136

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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Beer IPA Craft Beer Stout 119

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Finally, I’m sure you’re seeing it all over your social feeds right now, but we’ll have info on the midwestern entries to the just-released Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer 2024 lists on Monday. Busy day so far. But there’s more! Later This Month (and Beyond): Got plans on Monday?

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Beer Pub Stout Craft Beer 130