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A Crowded Hard Seltzer Shelf Causes Beer Brands to Differentiate With Real Fruit
Real fruit, hard seltzer ripe for success.
Earlier this year, we wondered if hard seltzer had lost some of its fizz. Turns out the bubble hasn’t popped yet. But the extreme growth ...
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Welcome to the Voodoo-mocracy: Vote for Your Favorite New Beer from New Belgium
The power is in your hands...literally.
Can you show us a beer that has conjured up more Instagram followers and Twitter followers than New Belgium’s Voodoo Ranger? At 91.4k fans on ...
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What Is an Oatmeal Stout?
Creamy is supreme-y.
As the weather turns (a good name for a new soap opera?), our palettes shift. Colder temperatures send us scrambling around our closet, pulling out ...
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The One Competition That’s More About Cheers and Camaraderie Than Medal Counts
And the (beer) Oscar goes to...
The Great American Beer Festival (GABF) is back baby! For the first time in two years the country’s largest and most well-respected beer festival returned ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in September
The best beers we drank this month.
Heck yes, it’s that time of year again! Fall, autumn, harvest, whatever you want to call it. Personally, we’ve dubbed this Oktoberfest season, baby. Sure, ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Coffee Beers
Do you like a morning buzz or an afternoon buzz?
Performing in Las Vegas in 1959, Red Skelton quipped, “I don’t drink this early in the day, but what the heck, it must be 5 ...
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The 5 Best Oktoberfest Beers to Drink at Yard House This Fall
Raise a stein, it's Oktoberfest time!
This is the most wonderful time of the year. The weather turns crisp and cool, the fall leaves start to change color, and the sweaters ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in August
The best beers we drank this month.
Summer is over. We weren’t quite ready to say it last month. But now we are. With Labor Day coming up this weekend, the holiday ...
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The 10 Best Double IPAs Available in Most Stores Right Now
Find these double IPAs on shelves near you.
We’re still feeling the glow from celebrating National IPA Day at the beginning of the month (Thursday, August 4th, 2022, to be exact). Accordingly, we ...
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Allagash Branches Out with Release of New Year-Round IPA, Hop Reach
Allagash jumps into hops.
Allagash and IPA—two words we never thought we’d use in the same sentence. But boy are we excited to announce the launch of Allagash’s new ...
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Fair Isle Brewing: The Shepherds of Wild Yeast and Spent Hops
The most magical brewery in the Pacific Northwest.
Spend mere moments chatting with Fair Isle Brewing Co-founder Andrew Pogue and R&D Brewer Matt Rowe and it’s almost like they’ve opened up a door ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Session IPAs
Have one, have two, have three, have more.
Beer comes in every size classification available: Small, medium, large, and Scottish. There are single-strength beers, double and triple, all the way up to quadruple. ...
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5 Under-the-Radar Breweries with the Best Hazy IPAs, According to the Experts
We're still in a haze.
Remember when we said we’re all still crazy for hazy? The numbers don’t lie. According to recent NielsenIQ data analyzed by Bump Williams Consulting (BWC), ...
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5 Breweries with the Best Hazy IPAs, According to You
Haze craze still has us in a daze.
We think it’s fair to say that the haze craze still has us in a daze. And we’re not the only ones. Last year the ...
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We’re Grabbing a Fresh 4-Pack from These 6 NorCal Breweries to Throw in Our New CamelBak ChillBak
Chill beers for a ChillBak.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that CamelBak, the company who’s pack I’d been devotedly slinging on my back for the last ten years, calls ...
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