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The 14 Best Beers We Drank in 2025

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The 14 Best Beers We Drank in 2025

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 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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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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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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The Top 13 Beers We Drank in October 2025

Lager, lager, lager, lager.
October was about one thing and one thing only: Oktoberfest! Usually, during this time of year, we remind you that you can still celebrate this ...
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The 9 Best Porters Available in Most Stores Right Now

Porters, it's what's for dinner.
Yes, we know that stouts get all the love. And for good reason. But personally, we feel like people often overlook porters—kind of the jelly ...
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What Is Rauchbier? A Smoky History

Let's clear this up.
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in October 2024 but has been updated after the Hop Culture team took a recent trip to Munich ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in September 2025

One of our favorite months.
This is our favorite time of year. When those hot, hazy dog days of summer turn over a new leaf, ushering in the crisp, blustery ...
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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, ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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