VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And no matter what your typical drink of choice is, the undisputed champ of beverages to wash down those wings is beer. After all, salty foods beg for a crisp, refreshing sidekick — think about how burger-and-beer combos are traditionally served with a Budweiser or a Miller. brown ales are like the less burly brother of stouts.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The fundamentals aren’t changing, though: There’s still 350+ barrel-aged beers at UIC’s Credit Union 1 arena, plus ciders, meads, perrys, etc. Attendees can nominate fans on Facebook, Instagram, or X by sharing the name and photo of their favorite beer, tagging @FoBAB, and including #FoBABFanFav. Old Bakery Beer Co.

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VinePair

MAY 5, 2024

This may sound like a backhanded compliment, but while craft beer sales continue to slow, the situation isn’t nearly as grim as it was this time last year. craft beer sales totalled $4.7 Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craft beer brands going into 2024. 28, 2024, U.S.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Beer styles are no exception, and brewers are the best in the business when it comes to lifting up under-the-radar brews. These styles aren’t often in regular rotation, but they’ve struck a chord with the people who know beer the best. Dark beers don’t get enough love. Weise, brewer, Talea Beer Co.

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VinePair

JANUARY 29, 2024

When planning some of the first recipes at Dallas’s Vector Brewing , head of brewing Tomás Gutierrez looked to beer’s origins. The earliest beers made thousands of years ago were a kind of porridge or beer soup made from cereal grains. There was a Mexican pozole-inspired smoked beer, with a full hog’s head in the boil.

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Spiritz

APRIL 30, 2024

The Indian beer industry faces innumerable challenges in terms of pricing and government taxation that makes it out of reach for many a drinker who would like to experience beer in a pub or a permit room. The scenario, when it comes to remain competitive and adapt to drinking beer in India, is definitely changing.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 27, 2023

If you compiled all of the headlines covering craft beer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. If you want great beer and good vibes, look no further: GOAL. What did I enjoy the most?

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Pilsner 137

VinePair

MARCH 6, 2024

Long-time Guinness ambassador Ryan Wagner estimates that 90 percent of American bartenders know that if a customer orders a pint of Guinness Draught Stout, there’s something different they have to do. degree) beer cascade down the side, aiming for the gold harp, until it’s three-quarters full. But what is right at this point?

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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. It’s a gorgeous and artfully crafted beer, and it’s a lot of fun to drink.” North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4% North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4%

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 10, 2024

For this series, Virginia Distillery enters whisky aged for at least 5 years into beer casks for 8 to 10 months of additional aging. The Fall 2024 releases feature two whiskies: one finished in Goose Island Bourbon County Brand Stout barrels and the other in Hardywood Gingerbread Stout barrels. Let’s find out!

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VinePair

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Days before Thanksgiving, Cloudburst announced its nostalgic winter warmer with a self-deprecating Instagram post (it’s a “beer you can drink one can of [and] leave a second can in the back of your fridge”) that became a potent sales pitch. Credit: Samuel Adams No beer is immune from vanishing or evolving. The outcry was as expected.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Pilsner 111

Cheers

MARCH 18, 2024

Canadian beer continues to resonate with U.S. A number of factors fuel the enduring strength of Canadian beer in America. A number of factors fuel the enduring strength of Canadian beer in America. Of course, much of that growth is made up of the explosive rise of Mexican beers. It makes people feel good about the beer.”

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 28, 2023

Since excessive drinking has been on the rise during the pandemic, we really want to focus on how to make delicious, spirit-free cocktails and enjoy other beverages such as nonalcoholic beer and wine. Top with ginger beer. MIXERS Ginger beer : Our community group of bartenders specifically recommends Fever Tree.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Early Guinness slogans touted the beer as a strength-building brew that can wake you up and bolster your health. Read on to get to the bottom of the most common myths about the stout. It’s pitch black, leading one to believe that its contents might go down more like a milkshake than a traditional beer. It’s a meal in a glass.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 2, 2024

That new phenomenon is called “splitting the G,” in which drinkers try to swallow enough beer on their first drink that the line between liquid and foam ends up halfway through the “G” of the Guinness brand on the glass. You’re not really enjoying the beer properly. You’re not really enjoying the beer properly.

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VinePair

AUGUST 6, 2024

When it comes to beers, the West Coast might be the best coast. It’s an argument backed by a long history and some big accolades: Breweries from California, Oregon, and Washington snagged 110 out of the 297 medals awarded to specific breweries at the 2023 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) , or 37 percent of the event’s total haul.

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The Whiskey Wash

JULY 27, 2024

The Westward American single malt whiskey is double-distilled from an artisanal craft beer before being matured in new, American charred white oak, and finished in one of a number of casks. Bourbon is, by law , required to be matured in virgin American white oak barrels for at least two years prior to any kind of finishing.

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Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ten years ago—when non-alc beer meant O’Douls—Philip Brandes started to reshape the non-alc narrative with craft brews that rival their alcoholic counterparts in taste. You claim to be the first craft non-alc beer. For readers who associate non-alc beer with O’Douls, can you talk about why what you do is different?

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Dry Atlas

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Ten years ago—when non-alc beer meant O’Douls—Philip Brandes started to reshape the non-alc narrative with craft brews that rival their alcoholic counterparts in taste. You claim to be the first craft non-alc beer. For readers who associate non-alc beer with O’Douls, can you talk about why what you do is different?

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PubClub

SEPTEMBER 6, 2024

Most of the time, the attitude of the pub owners is further expressed through the craft beer or regional beer that they choose to offer, as such varieties of beer are hard to find in other places. Tell the bartender what beers you usually enjoy – the hoppiness of IPAs, creaminess of stouts, or lightness of lagers.

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VinePair

MARCH 28, 2024

Through the snowless 60-degree days, however, one boreal harbinger has remained intact: the Russian imperial stout. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. In 2001, the resultant beer, Czar Jack, was born. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since the dawn of craft beer, bars have played a pivotal role in the boom of American brewing. Nowhere is this more true than at the more specialized spots: the beer bars, as we know them, with their thoughtful selections across tap lines and bottle lists, and their dedication to service, atmosphere, and education. Sales have slowed.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Putting unorthodox ingredients and adjuncts into beer is nothing new. Pumpkin beer has marked spooky season since the early ‘80s and the pastry stout boom of the mid-2010s saw everything from brownies and marshmallows to coffee and ancho chiles get added to brews. We’ve actually tried this one, and it’s pretty damn good.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 18, 2024

Untappd announced their new Community Awards last week and I spent some time poking through them — before quickly realizing that it’s an absolute firehose of beer ranking data points. I thought I’d look at how some of the world’s most critically praised beers fared. Pretty cool. It didn’t even place.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

When the VinePair team isnt busy working at HQ, were in the field doing what we do best: scoping out the best cocktails, wine, and beer in the five boroughs. On the beer front, craft breweries and bars impressed us with their frothy pours and bold flavors that are well worth a visit, too. Schmuck Martini at schmuck.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 4, 2024

I realized midway through last week that I didn’t update y’all on the results of my expedition to find signs of life in five Chicago-based beer brands. Most of these brands definitely saw my IG messages and left me on read.) If you have ten minutes to kill and you feel like reliving a beer event from 2013, give it a watch.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Laurin Mack is the owner of the 170-year-old Seipp brand as well as the great-great-great-granddaughter of Chicago beer baron Conrad Seipp. We chatted about the move, and she definitely recognizes the irony in the fact that these beers are going to be brewed at a facility that was originally a Pabst building.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 30, 2023

Calling all Firestone Walker fans and barrel-aged beer lovers too busy to do their own shopping. Enrollment for Firestone Walker’s beer club, the Brewmaster’s Collective, is live until the end of the month (apologies for the late notice). Bottom line, if you’re into barrel-aged beers, you’re going to love what we have in store for you.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

As I mentioned in our Instagram Stories immediately following the news, a major announcement like this dropping on Saturday morning is definitely not the normal time for something like this. In the last few years, the Chicago craft beer community has seen all the anchors of the modern craft beer movement significantly transformed.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Is there a beer that says “Valentine’s Day” to you? The other beer that says V-Day for me is any kind of kriek lambic. 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. Any go-to Valentine’s Day beers?

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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. 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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 31, 2025

I drank the beer! If you missed Friday’s email , I arbitrarily decided that this past weekend was going to be Just Drink the Beer Already Weekend at my house. It’s also a 16% BA stout that released a few months ago, so it’s got some life left to it.) Danville’s Vermillion River Beer Company is expanding.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

It’s hard work being a beer writer, especially when all this research has to be packed into one busy weekend. Towards the end of the recent BCBS media tasting, Goose Island president Todd Ahsmann stated that “I think we’re in a golden age of barrel-aged stouts. Bell’s is selling their UP brewery Upper Hand.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

Subscribe now While I still believe that winning a GABF medal remains the highest honor that can be bestowed in craft beer, earning acknowledgement from the annual Craft Beer & Brewing Best of the Year list is quickly becoming a close second. Another good year to be a beer drinker in the Midwest!

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 3, 2025

Beyond the circles of bona fide beer nerds, barleywine is a term that few encounter in their drinking journeys. But just like saisons , Flemish red ales , and English milds , barleywines are among the beer styles that enthusiasts tend to embrace after theyve become well acquainted with and possibly tired of stouts , IPAs , and lagers.

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VinePair

MARCH 12, 2025

Ive been drinking craft beer since college. Ive been writing about craft beer for nearly 20 years. I had settled into a life of quotidian beer drinking. Then recently I was in Vermont at The Alchemists Stowe brewery and beer caf. In fact, it might just be the best beer in the country right now. Im 46 years old.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Stout 122

VinePair

MARCH 6, 2025

Trader Joes has mastered the art of offering solid sometimes stellar products for bargain prices, and that extends into the beer aisle. While the grocery store chain carries plenty of familiar beer brands that one might see at a typical store, it also has plenty of exclusive in-house offerings that cant be found anywhere else.

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