VinePair

AUGUST 7, 2024

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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IPA Beer Pub Bitters 128

VinePair

JUNE 19, 2024

Over the past decade, IPAs have dominated the hearts, minds, and fridges of the beer drinking public. Some people joke that the acronym stands for “Immediate Profits Ahead” because of how much of a sure thing it is in the business, but today we’re going to discuss an IPA that sure wasn’t. Tune in for more.

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IPA Beer Wine 115

VinePair

JUNE 20, 2025

If pairing spicy food with wine, look for bottles around 12 percent ABV with crisp acidity or residual sugar, like German Riesling or Gewürztraminer , though sparkling wines like Prosecco or demi-sec Champagne also make for delightful pairs.

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Alcohol IPA Bitters Wine 104

VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

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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IPA Beer Bitters Alcohol 119

Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Non-Alcoholic IPA Simcoe, Cascade, Columbus and Amarillo hops all make appearances in this nonalcoholic beer offering from California brewery Bravus, which uses a proprietary process that employs manipulated yeast to adjust the brew’s alcohol content. The result is an IPA with hoppy bitterness and a silky body boasting less than 0.5%

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Beer IPA Pilsner Alcohol 243

Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Pacific Northwest-based Alaska Airlines serves Straightaway canned cocktails and Stumptown coffee from Portland, Oregon, as well as a custom-brewed IPA from Seattle’s Fremont Brewing and the nonalcoholic Electro Lime Cerveza from Northern California’s Best Day Brewing. I tried to pick cocktails that are easy to love and easy to make.”

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Sommelier Zero-Proof IPA Wine 278

Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2024

Where bitter IPAs and rich imperial stouts polarized beer drinkers, an approachable style of ale that originated in Cologne, Germany, is finding fans in beer enthusiasts and casual imbibers alike. Having a low-alcohol beer as your flagship is definitely more desirable [than a double IPA],” says co-owner Jeff Huss.

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Pilsner IPA Zero-Proof Beer 246

VinePair

FEBRUARY 21, 2025

We dont say this as a braggadocious claim of influence, but rather to point out that the grape variety remains widely popular despite many winemakers efforts to push esoteric wines on their customers. The impulse to promote lesser-known juice isnt unique to the wine industry, but producers embracing and acting upon that impulse certainly is.

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Wine Pilsner Sommelier IPA 59

Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

The striking flowers of woolly bluecurls, an evergreen shrub, lend a mix of candied lavender, mint, and pine to Island Brewing ’s HopLiner IPA. The youthful crowd is lively and engaged, and conversations run from conservation to why fruity hummingbird sage excels in IPAs. It was mostly the place that your grandmother likes to come to.

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IPA Beer Craft Beer Bar 278

Imbibe Magazine

JULY 10, 2024

In 2022, the duo built an outdoor wine garden in an empty Fishtown lot and poured glasses of minimal-intervention MCC wines—made with Pennsylvania grapes—from a refurbished trolley. By night, Forîn hosts residencies for local restaurants, and pours wine, beer, and cocktails, like an Espresso Martini with house coffee.

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Zero-Proof Club Beer Live Music 263

VinePair

JULY 16, 2024

The economics of wine pricing are anything but clear-cut, with each establishment having its own philosophy regarding bottle markups and by-the-glass prices. But recently, wine costs have soared to unprecedented levels, especially at restaurants. Tune in for more. appeared first on VinePair.

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Wine IPA Cocktail Culture Bottling 103

VinePair

DECEMBER 31, 2024

When its time to ring in the new year, most drinkers will probably raise a glass of Champagne , Prosecco , or some other sparkling wine. To clarify, Gde is not a brut IPA. It is not a wine-beer hybrid, and it has nothing to do with Miller High Lifes claim to be the Champagne of Beers. Its really sticky.

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Beer Pilsner Wine IPA 105

VinePair

MARCH 5, 2024

When buying wine at a restaurant or wine bar, it’s common knowledge that the best bang for your buck lies in the by-the-bottle list. However, for the curious consumer who may want to taste through multiple wines in one sitting, options to do so are dwindling. Hence why by-the-glass pours continue to cost a pretty penny.

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Wine IPA Beer Bottling 98

Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

s flagship hazy IPA. Mixing a concise list of classics and house cocktails, the bar also stocks a solid selection of beers—available on draft or grab-and-go from the amply stocked beer fridge—as well as wines on draft and by the bottle. “It is a place to pay homage to craft, history, and connection.”

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Craft Cocktails Beer Bar IPA 287

Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

Non-Alcoholic IPA Simcoe, Cascade, Columbus and Amarillo hops all make appearances in this nonalcoholic beer offering from California brewery Bravus, which uses a proprietary process that employs manipulated yeast to adjust the brew’s alcohol content. The result is an IPA with hoppy bitterness and a silky body boasting less than 0.5%

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Beer IPA Pilsner Alcohol 147

A Bar Above

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Many people go dry on weekdays only during this period of time– so don’t think it’s all or nothing if you’re not quite ready to give up your glass of wine! NON-ALCOHOLIC BEERS AND WINES This side of the industry has come a long way, so O’Doul’s is not your only option anymore!

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Mocktails Zero-Proof Alcohol Muddling 191

VinePair

AUGUST 14, 2024

Start a brewery, crank out some IPAs , and you, too, could become a millionaire! Their Pale Ale might be the most iconic craft beer ever made; their Celebration IPA one of the most seasonally beloved. The thing that gets Bell’s to my Mount Rushmore is one of America’s all time favorite IPAs: Two Hearted.

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Beer Craft Beer IPA Stout 140

Cheers

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Uncasville, CT-based casino Mohegan Sun held its 20th Sun Wine & Food Fest from Jan. The annual food and wine festival included more than 15 events combining culinary artistry, unique and premium wine and spirit selections and celebrity chef demonstrations. Here’s a quick look at some of the festivities we attended.

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Wine Vodka IPA Beer 105

Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. Great Notion partnered with the Portland Trail Blazers basketball team for the 2021–2022 season, selling a custom-label edition of its Ripe IPA at home games.

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Beer IPA Club Craft Beer 264

VinePair

JANUARY 1, 2024

Sure, there are seven IPAs below, but that’s arguably a fair representation of the craft beer market at large. True to its reputation, the brand continues to deliver consistent hits, and the Free Wave Hazy IPA is no exception. Good Time Brewing Company IPA New York City Everything about Good Time Brewing’s IPA is nostalgic.

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Alcohol Beer IPA Pilsner 122

VinePair

JUNE 11, 2024

With nearly every conceivable IPA variant, from cold to milkshake to hoppy absurdity , and stouts barrel-aged and pastrified to the nth degree, it seems that craft beer has reached a point of all-time stagnation. appeared first on VinePair.

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Craft Beer Beer Stout IPA 105

VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. These days, the hordes still come flocking to Russian River Brewing during a two-week window every Spring to pick up a few bottles of the famous, crisp, and clean Triple IPA. One fine example is Market Rate, an American wild ale aged in wine barrels with strawberries. But beer tourism?

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Beer Stout IPA Live Music 126

VinePair

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

Zach is reading: Do Sommeliers Actually Try Every Bottle of Wine on Their Lists?

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Sommelier IPA Craft Beer Gin 100

VinePair

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether it be the hop resins at the bottom of an IPA , the yeast at the bottom of a saison , or the wheat floating around in a hefeweizen , most beer drinkers have been faced with a millimeter of sketchy-looking dregs sitting in their glass. Dregs — the word alone just sounds gnarly. That’s where a bunch of the good B complex vitamins live.”

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Beer Bottling IPA Muddling 116

VinePair

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

The Best Go-To Cold-Weather Beers, According to Brewers: Dark Czech lager Black IPAs Evil Twin Aged Fruit Sours Volume 2 Great Lakes Brewing Co. I’ve made black IPAs to black kolschs. I’m always looking for something with a high level of drinkability [such as] light lagers, kolsch, or a well-done IPA. Burnsville, Minn.

Beer 124

Beer Stout IPA Rum 124

VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As with any exceptional wines and spirits one has over the course of a lifetime, the best beers should linger long after the last sip, lip smack, and smile. Decoction mashing and most importantly the use of the floatation tank help to create a clean and refreshingly unique IPA. They might or might not be flavored with rocket pops.

Beer 124

Beer Pilsner IPA Stout 124

VinePair

DECEMBER 27, 2023

Brewery Saint X does, by the way, recognize its surroundings with a cocktail program better than any I’ve ever seen at a brewery, and the food is both a celebration of New Orleans and a selection of excellent accompaniments to their Czech-style dark lager, helles lager, West Coast IPA, and best bitter on cask.”

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Pilsner 137

VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

Strange Brew’s flagship, the Jasmine IPA, is a must-try, offering aromatic tropical fruits and relaxing jasmine notes. And while Argentina may be better known for wine, the country has a craft beer scene that’s blossomed impressively over the past two decades. In 2010, there were roughly 70 breweries scattered across the country.

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Beer IPA Stout Craft Beer 135

VinePair

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

But a serious downside of groupthink is its monotony, which is most evident when it comes to wine lists. A decade ago, groupthink may have influenced what styles of wine are present on a list: Everyone had a Pinot Grigio and a Sauvignon Blanc. If not, they may risk leaving money on the table, or worse, closing entirely.

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IPA Wine Alcohol Bottling 93

The Whiskey Wash

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

This particular whiskey was initially aged in ex-bourbon barrels before finishing in a combination of tawny port casks from Portugal and port-style wine casks from a winery in Virginia. Read the full article at The Best American Whiskey Of 2025 According To The Whiskey Wash Awards

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Whiskey Stout IPA Club 105

VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2023

Chilled red wines ? Embracing “In-Between” Wines Credit: Виктория Попова – stock.adobe.com Rosé, orange, amber, light red — it feels like we’ve encountered a dazzling spectrum of wine over the past few years. But in 2024, expect to see a lot more wines eschewing color-categorization altogether. Espresso Martinis ?

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Tequila Happy Hour Wine Beer 130

VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This episode of “The VinePair Podcast” is sponsored by The Prisoner Wine Company. Give a gift that doesn’t require wrapping with premium gift sets from The Prisoner Wine Company. These are online exclusives that can help elevate a personal collection. Plus, ground shipping is included on all gift sets!

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Beer Craft Beer Pilsner Stout 95

VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Much like the wine world’s vinifera and hybrid grapes, these titles indicate where the hops come from. After a few macro breweries tried to incorporate Cascade in their lagers to little success, smaller craft operations like Sierra Nevada Brewing Company saw its potential in pale ales and IPAs. appeared first on VinePair.

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Pilsner IPA Bitters Beer 98

VinePair

MAY 2, 2024

When’s the last time you heard someone claiming to crave a warm, cozy IPA or an ice-cold glass of Bordeaux ? Influence of temperature on clusters probably accounts for preferable changes of ‘ethanol-like tastes’ of low-ABV beers or white wine after cooling and high-ABV shochu or Chinese baijiu after heating,” according to the research paper.

Beer 98

Beer IPA Alcohol Wine 98

VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

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. Lager is, for us, the most difficult recipe.”

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Beer IPA Alcohol Pub 126

The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 14, 2024

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Whiskey 98

Whiskey IPA Bottling Liqueur 98

VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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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Craft Beer IPA Beer Stout 98