Learn More About Bailey Berg

Bailey Berg is a Colorado-based (by way of Alaska) freelance writer who covers craft beer, travel, and the outdoors. Her work can be found in The New York Times, The Washington Post, National Geographic, Conde Nast Traveler, Men's Journal, Architectural Digest, and beyond. You can connect with her on Twitter and Instagram.

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Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2025

Points and pints!
Discovering new places, beer cities, and meccas for craft is one of the best parts of our job. Undoubtedly, we went on some crazy beer ...
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The 14 Best Beers We Drank in 2025

Cheers!
Here’s the thing about drinking beer for a living: The deeper we dive into this wild, wonderful world of lagers, lambics, saisons, and everything in ...
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The Best Breweries of 2025

Simply the best!
Another year, another impossible task: narrowing down the breweries that blew our minds, melted our palates, and made us seriously consider installing a second liver. ...
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The 19 Best Beer Gifts for the Holidays 2025

Pints for Presents.
It’s the most wonderful time of the beer! Whether you’re shopping for the hophead who has everything, the lager lover who’s tough to please, or ...
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The 9 Best New Breweries of 2025

Freshies for the win!
New year, new beers, new breweries, new places to travel and drink! We can’t possibly visit every taproom that opens its doors, but our team ...
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The Best Hidden-Gem Places to Drink of 2025

Can you find these secret spots?
What does it mean to be a hidden-gem place to drink? That’s a tricky question. Just look at the submissions from the team, and you’ll ...
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The 19 Best Breweries to Watch in 2026

Keep an 👀 out.
A new year means 365 new days to try new beers and visit breweries we haven’t been to before. Hopefully, you’ve already checked out “The ...
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Anomaly: The Award-Winning THC Seltzer Taking Flavor Exploration to New Galaxies

The next frontier.
If Bottle Logic built its reputation by pushing the boundaries of beer, Anomaly is where that same spirit blasts off into the THC universe. The ...
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The Top 12 Beers We Drank in November 2025

We're thankful.
For us, November is always about taking time to think about the things we’re most thankful for. We’re thankful for the opportunity to travel to ...
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Beers With the Most 5-Star Check-Ins on Untappd in 2025

Cheers to 15 years of beers and check-ins!
In 2010, Untappd Founder Greg Avola had an idea: Build a social platform for the craft beer community. Avola had impeccable timing. Because while “Like ...
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The 9 Best Homebrewing Gifts for the Holidays 2025

Brew better.
‘Tis the season to brew something special! Whether your favorite homebrewer is just dipping their mash paddle for the first time or already speaks fluent ...
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Meet SWRL: The World’s First Makgeolli Hard Seltzer

What if the next big thing in beverage alcohol wasn’t born in a brewery, but from centuries of Korean tradition? That’s the spark behind SWRL, ...
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From Sonoma to Manchester: Track Brewing’s Ride To Glory

One-track state of mind.
As I stepped out from the winding path that runs alongside the picturesque Ashton canal in Manchester, I left behind the charming brick homes of ...
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High Hopes, Low Stress: Uncle Arnie’s Is the Buzz You Actually Want

"Life's a Trip, Drink it Up!"
We’ve all got that one uncle. You know the one—he shows up in a tie-dye tee, cracks the best jokes at the cookout, and somehow ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial Stouts [UPDATED]

Barrel-aged beauties!
Why do we love stouts? Un-stout-edly, we shout from the rooftops for the dark depths of these dank-defying beers because they touch our souls. And ...
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