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Grace is the Senior Content Editor for Hop Culture and Untappd. She also organizes and produces the largest weeklong women, femme-identifying, and non-binary folx in craft beer festival in the country, Beers With(out) Beards, and the first-ever festival celebrating the colorful, vibrant voices in the queer community in craft beer, Queer Beer. An avid craft beer nerd Grace always found a way to work with beer. After graduating with a journalism degree from Northwestern University, she attended culinary school before working in restaurant management. She moonlighted as a brand ambassador at 3 Sheeps Brewing Co. on the weekends before moving into the beer industry full-time as an account coordinator at 5 Rabbit Cerveceria. Grace holds her Masters degree in the Food Studies program at NYU.
Currently Drinking:
Fort Point Beer Co. KSA
Latest Content
Baltic Porter? I Hardly Know ‘Er!
The black sheep of the porter family.
Craft beer’s lexicon brims with necessary qualifiers, like “double dry-hopped,” “barrel aged,” and “imperial.” A handful of those descriptors refer to nationalities and cultures, too, ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Märzens [UPDATED 2025]
Toast! Prost!
Yes, it is the best time of the year. To us, this is indisputable. When fall rolls into town, blowing in its red, orange, and ...
From Summits to Sips: How You Can Score New Hiking Gear and NA Beer
Read to win!
Athletic Brewing Company Co-Founder Bill Shufelt has a tradition. Every time he and his brother climb a mountain or tackle a trail, they always celebrate ...
The 16 Best Breweries in Cleveland, Ohio and Beyond
Where to get a beer in Cleveland.
“CLEVELAND, THIS IS FOR YOU!” Lebron James screamed when he won their first NBA Championship in 2016, bringing back the city’s first major sports title ...
CLAG Brewing, Where You Can Get a Bowl of Pho and a Double IPA
Pho-nomenal beer.
Born and raised in Vietnam, CLAG Brewing Founder Kha Bui fled his home country in 1989 with seventeen other people. He spent ten days and ...
The Top 15 Beers We Drank in August 2025
Busy drinking bees.
Busy-as-a-bee type of month here at Hop Culture. And not just because we spent an entire week talking about mead! We recounted our nine-day adventures ...
The 17 Best Oktoberfests Available in Most Stores Right Now
Prost! Toast! Clinking steins.
This month, the 190th Oktoberfest will kick off in Munich, Germany. And for the first time in Hop Culture history, we’re hopping a plane to ...
From Foraged Ingredients to World-Class Beers: Inside Forager Brewery
A new wild discovery.
Forager Brewery Co-Owner Annie Henderson never in a million years thought she’d own a brewery. She wasn’t a homebrewer with a garage full of carboys ...
What Is Mead? The Buzz Behind the World’s Oldest Fermented Beverage
What is the world’s oldest fermented beverage? Beer? Wine? The answer may surprise you. Although if you even semi-paid attention to the title of this ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Traditional Mead
Un-bee-lievable.
A fermented alcoholic beverage also called honey wine (a bit of a misnomer, really) or “nectar of the gods,” mead is the world’s oldest fermented ...
The Magic Kingdom of Meads: Zymarium Meadery Is a Hidden-Gem in Orlando Making Mead for the Future
Bzzzzz.
Orlando might be known for castles, wizards, and a specific famous mouse, but tucked away from the theme park hustle is an entirely different kind ...
The 11 Best Breweries to Visit in Michigan
Ten years ago, my partner and I packed up our Volkswagen Tiguan (named Manuel) and left Chicago for the big lights of New York City. ...
Up North, Home at Last: The Story of Elder Piper Beer & Cider
Lake lager.
Up north. Two little words. But if you know, you know. Growing up in the lake-filled land of Minnesota, my family and I would pack ...
America’s Next Great Novel: The 30-Year Story of Dogfish Head
Off-centered goodness for off-centered people.
This isn’t an introduction to the next great American novel, but it could be the first page. It’s a party. Just not one that we’ve ...
Japanese Rice Lager: A Simple Recipe Achieves Phenomenal Results
Crisp, clean.
It’s no secret that light lagers are gaining traction within craft beer trends. The style has even climbed up Untappd’s Year in Beer charts, ranking ...