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The 20 Best Beers to Drink in Summer 2022
Shining sun in a can.
Recently, we celebrated the longest day of the year in the Northern hemisphere. With close to fifteen hours of sun in most parts of the ...
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Built on the Backs of Mountain Bikers: CamelBak x Oskar Blues Collab on New Beer
A beer built for adventure.
Built on the backs of mountain bikers, CamelBak and Oskar Blues have teamed up for a one-of-a-kind collab. Both companies share similar origin stories and ...
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Are Black IPAs Back from the Brink of Oblivion?
The beer style that's like a Jedi mind trick.
An intriguing style, black IPAs combine darker malts with a bevy of hops. This style falls perplexingly in the middle of a Venn diagram with ...
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The 12 Best Session IPAs Available in Most Stores Right Now
Find these session IPAs on shelves near you.
Let us start by making this simple statement: We love IPAs. American IPAs give us big, bold, beautiful floral, citrus-y characteristics compounded by a dank ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in June
The best beers we drank this month.
With summer in full swing, we’ve been crushing on fruited sours, light lagers, and even the occasional farmhouse ale or two. It’s just an incredible ...
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Favorite Beer and BBQ Pairings, According to a James Beard Award-Winning Pitmaster
Rodney Scott shares his top picks for food and drink pairings at your Fourth of July cookout.
This weekend, we’ll be gathered in the backyard with family. Most likely, fixing up a plate of Uncle Joe’s famous dry rubbed ribs, smoked wings, ...
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The 10 Best Sours Available in Most Stores Right Now
Grab these approachable sours at the store down the street.
Recently, we’ve enjoyed putting together a series on some of the best style-specific beers you can find in a store near year. So far in ...
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What Exactly Is a Milkshake IPA?
Five of our favorite examples of the style.
While Cold IPAs and dessert-inspired sours have taken the industry by storm, undoubtedly one of the most trendy and talked-about beer styles of the past ...
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Castle Island’s Fiver Initiative Launches a Legacy in the Local Community
One beer. Five organizations. One year of Ggving.
One beer. Five organizations. One year of giving. Philanthropy has been a core component of Castle Island since the beginning. For years, the brewery ran ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in May
Spring has certainly sprung in May with an abundance of beer coming our way. So much so that we couldn’t decide on just the ten ...
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The Four Hottest (and Coolest) Hop Trends
Hops are so hot. These trends are even hotter.
Here is a simple truth: Hops are hot. Oh, how we are all in love with those little green cones like Citra, Centennial, and Cascade ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in April
National Beer Day, Saison Day, and many birthdays.
April showers bring May flowers, right? Well, this month certainly showered us with beer. We celebrated our fifth annual Beers With(out) Beards in Portland, ME, ...
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The 5-Minute Guide to Beer and Pretzel Pairing
The perfect pint and salty twist.
Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell declared April 26th as National Pretzel Day in 2003. In honor of this holiday, we’ve put together some quick tips for ...
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The 16 Most Insane Beer Labels from North Carolina Breweries
16 beers labels. One winner. Bracketology at its best.
Last month, madness descended on North Carolina. And no, we’re not talking about the University of North Carolina Tar Heels men’s basketball team ruining Coach ...
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The 7 Best CBD-Infused Beers and Beverages of 2022
Get a buzz this 4/20 with CBD-infused, alcohol-free beer.
How will you be celebrating 4/20 this year? Perhaps we can suggest you enjoy 4/20 a little differently by indulging in a CBD-infused beer or ...
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