Cheers

OCTOBER 21, 2024

Writing this feature in 2024, I’m tempted to recycle a similar piece I did on craft beer circa 2017. It’s not uncommon to say that the whiskey industry is five to seven years behind craft beer in terms of trends. These consumers increasingly prefer a handful of favorite bottles rather than experimenting across brands.

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VinePair

AUGUST 15, 2024

In an old stone keep, there would be but one cask, never failing or becoming stale [but always pouring] the stuff that mimics the orange horizon: Machine House Cambridge Bitter. Kevin Davey, co-owner, Gold Dot Beer , McMinnville, Ore. My desert island beer is — and probably always will be — Sierra Nevada Torpedo.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 2, 2024

When the American craft beer boom took off in the 1990s, it didn’t take long before we got brews that were hopped to high heaven. But in the grand scheme of beer history, hops are actually a relatively recent addition. When the Bavarian beer purity law (a.k.a. Mugwort needs to boil for a long time to get that bitterness.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Photo: SF Travel At Cityscape’s NYE party, you get: • Music from DJ MOJO • Drink specials & small bites for purchase • A complimentary Moët & Chandon mini bottle at midnight for each guest to toast the New Year This event is for guests ages 21+ only. Cocktail attire is requested.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

revbrewchicago A post shared by @revbrewchicago I’ve updated our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map , and that was a real bummer of a “delete” button to have to press. Patch also wrote about the return of the Flipside / Open Bottle seasonal collab for charity, Santa’s Midnight Snack. No Bitter Pops ?

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VinePair

OCTOBER 23, 2024

New Belgium has played a major role in shaping the craft beer industry as we know it. The original 2017 line consisted of just two beers: the Voodoo Ranger IPA and Imperial IPA. For this roundup, all beers were poured from the can (or bottle) and sampled prior to their respective “enjoy by” dates out of glencairn glasses.

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VinePair

AUGUST 7, 2024

Though it wasn’t labeled as an IPA, the beer was reportedly the original example of what we now know as a West Coast IPA. Given that Aprihop hit the scene before the haze craze, it remains a great gateway beer for those who aren’t crazy about the intense bitterness of classic American IPAs.

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2024

Go to any bottle shop these days and you’re bound to be greeted by a respectable section devoted to non-alcoholic offerings. Beer has arguably pulled off the NA feat best, cracking the zero proof code and producing genuinely drinkable options that resemble real styles. But what of wine?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

…and if all that Marzen you’ve been drinking for the past couple weeks is too much sweetness, The Open Bottle - Tinley is hosting a pickle beer tasting tomorrow too. This pre-selected mixed sixer of popular pumpkin beers is pretty smart, Bitter Pops. And, of course, Oktoberfests are still Oktoberfesting.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Original 40’s Ready To Pedal craft beer is a West Coast IPA. A new beer by The Original 40 Brewing Company celebrates the opening of San Diego’s Pershing Bikeway, a 2.3-mile Called Ready to Pedal, it is a West Coast IPA with tropical, fruity, and dank tasting notes with a clean, crisp bitterness.

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Dry Atlas

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Personally, I love mixing their Aplós Arise with our Spring in a Bottle sparkling alcohol-removed wine to create a unique and refreshing spritz! Athletic Brewing Company Athletic is a true pioneer in non-alcoholic craft beers. My personal favorite (and one of their best-sellers) is Run Wild.

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VinePair

JUNE 28, 2024

As such, larger-format, ready-to-serve libations were not included in the tasting (though there are several worth checking out, from bottled Martinis to Old Fashioneds ). Made in collaboration with Stumptown, this interpretation lacks any artificial notes, instead offering velvety notes of bitter coffee and honey.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

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% All the sweetness is cut by a drier finish, leading to a well-balanced hoppy lager with the perfect amount of bitterness.” ” —Chip Samson, co-owner, Shaidzon Beer Co.,

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Dry Atlas

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Ale Ales are brewed with top-fermenting yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae), which operates at warmer temperatures and tends to produce a variety of esters and other secondary flavors and aromas, often resulting in a beer with a more complex taste. Stout Stouts are a dark, full-bodied beer style that evolved from porters.

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Alcohol Beer Stout IPA 52

Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Sometime in the 2010s, consuming craft beer turned into a personality trait. Acquiring, drinking, and discussing beer in granular detail became an all-consuming hobby. IPAs might be craft brewing’s most popular style, but some drinkers remain apprehensive to embrace them. A bad experience with bitter beers can linger.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

Craft beer distorts the concept of locality. Made with Alphonso mangos native to Bhatt and Pandya’s shared home region of Gujarat, India, the cider has added hops that replicate biting into bitter mango skin. People aren’t beer drinkers, cider drinkers, wine drinkers, or spirit drinkers,” says co-founder Larsen.“They’re

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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.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

A Glass of Bubbles (and a Bottle of Gamay) at Has Snack Bar Sadie Mae Burns and Anthony Ha, the partners behind Ha’s c Bit, the Vietnamese pop-up with a cult following, finally opened their first permanent restaurant in January. Brooklyns Covenhoven is, without a doubt, one of those spots.

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A Bar Above

MAY 28, 2024

Throw in a bottle of his favorite liquor and a bar mat for a non-slip surface, a jar of cocktail cherries for garnish, or a cocktail smoker kit, and you have a complete gift! Photo copyright A Bar Above SPIRITS If your Pops likes a good cocktail and drinking gifts in general, gifting a bottle of alcohol is a pretty practical gift.

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Bar Spoon Bar Tools Alcohol Bartending 224

Australian Bartender

JULY 17, 2024

Antico, Brisbane, QLD Apollo Inn, Melbourne, VIC Bar Kokomo, Darwin, NT Bar Spontana, Melbourne, VIC Centro 86, Sydney, NSW Edward & Ida’s, Perth, WA Goodwater, Melbourne, VIC JAM Record Bar, Sydney, NSW Maggie’s Snacks & Liquor, Melbourne VIC Purple Pit Bar, Melbourne, VIC The Caterpillar Club, Sydney, NSW The Emerald Room, Sydney, NSW Pub (..)

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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. So he opened New York City’s first dry bottle shop, which he quickly outgrew. The alcohol-free category continues to thrive. They stock Coors and Heineken 0.0,

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

I caught most of the Craft Beer & Brewing “Best Of” lists … but apparently not all of them. 1 The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: This is fortuitous timing: My very first trip to Art History Brewing came a couple of years ago over a holiday weekend as I was visiting my folks in the ‘burbs.

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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

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. We had cask-conditioned beer on most of the time, Kimmich says.

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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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Drinkhacker

APRIL 4, 2025

is an ambitious collaboration that merges the worlds of craft whiskey and craft beer. For every bottle of Foothills Brewing Sexual Chocolate Stout Cask Finish sold, Virginia Distillery donates the equivalent of 10 meals to those in need. This collaboration aims to support families affected by Hurricane Helene.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

These touchstones will exist as long as brewers continue to pump out cans and bottles, and they act as calm amid marketplace chaos. Beer is also fertile ground for spirited debate another tenet thats theoretically as eternal as drinking itself. Most NA beers on the market are poor representatives of craft beer.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

These are all released under the Kirkland Signature label, the same house brand that appears on the retailer’s coffee, canned tuna, bottled water, and, yes, beers. wrote one man on the Costco subreddit , which has been deluged with fans touting bottles they’ve found at their local stores. They seemed to be going quick!”

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VinePair

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Without additional ado, here are 22 of the best new breweries to drop into your bucket list for the coming year in beer. Austin Mill Brewing Company Frankfort, Ohio Credit: Austin Mill Brewing Company This craft beer destination in Ross County transformed its historic grain mill property into a modern brewery.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 31, 2025

Kilchoman Machir Bay (Islay) $60 (50) A youthful farm-to-bottle Islay malt that proves age is just a number, bursting with BBQ smoke, citrus zest, and malty sweetness from this upstart distillery. Colonel E.H.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 31, 2024

The drink features gin , Maraschino liqueur, pineapple juice, and bitters with a cherry garnish. Upper West Side: A Pint The Upper West Side is brimming with beer bars, from old pubs and sports bars to spots more focused on craft brews.

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