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The 30 Most Iconic Beers to Drink in Fall 2024
All hail fall! As I’m sure you know by now, autumn is one of our favorite seasons. To us, this is indisputable. We get goosebumps ...
Beers With the Most 5-Star Check-Ins on Untappd in 2024
Cheers to 14 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 ...
What Is Rauchbier? A Smoky History
Let's clear this up.
All beer was once smoked beer or rauchbier in German. “It’s a lost knowledge that smoke beer was the original way of making beer,” Sixth ...
Top 10 Beers We Drank in September 2024
Fall, Festbiers, and Football.
Last month, we told you we were ready for the invasion of pumpkin beers, Oktoberfest events, and the promise of Festbiers, Märzens, porters, and amber ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Festbiers
A strong golden German lager similar to a helles, just maltier, the Festbier has become the official beer of Munich’s annual Oktoberfest. Historically, the beers ...
The Top 31 Oktoberfest Beers to Try in 2024
Lederhosen not required.
September 21, 2024, marks the beginning of the 189th Oktoberfest celebration! And you can bet that the annual festival that attracts millions of visitors to ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Pumpkin / Yam Beer
The jack of all pumpkins.
Yes, we admit, the clock struck midnight for us this week, and we temporarily turned into pumpkins. We’re completing our trio of pumpkin features by ...
Are Pumpkin Beers ‘Squashed’ for Good?
What's Ailing Pumpkin Ale?
It’s that time of year: The air’s gone swampy, your lawn looks like a hayfield, you’ve used up all your vacation time, and the mosquitos ...
The 11 Best Pumpkin Beers Available in Most Stores Right Now
Polarizing or popular?
It’s all pumpkin beers all week! ICYMI: Check out an update on our popular piece on the polarizing opinions on pumpkin beers. We are just ...
What Is a Kriek Beer?
We're cheery for cherry beer!
One of my first experiences with a Kriek was at The Sovereign, the Belgian beer bar in Washington, D.C. I was afforded the chance to ...
Top 12 Beers We Drank in August
Drinking in the dog days of summer.
Summer is almost over. Let’s just get those words out of the way now. Honestly, we’re kind of excited to put these dog days behind ...
The Cult of PBR
A blue-ribbon winner.
The first beer I ever shotgunned. The 30-pack I took to all my off-campus parties during my senior year in college. And the beer at ...
The 11 Best Double Hazies Available in Most Stores Right Now
Graphic courtesy of Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Amped up, double dosed, sky high, revved the engine, sent to the moon, double the trouble, imperial or double hazies send us places we can ...
What Exactly Is a Kettle Sour?
Breaking down the tart, lactic sour beers.
Sour beer: a term many American beer drinkers have used to describe beer negatively for decades. Although popular globally for centuries with the likes of ...
9 Things You Didn’t Know About Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter
The beer that will never be pushing daisies.
“I’ll take a Daisy.” Half Acre Beer Co. Co-Founder Gabriel Magliaro can’t tell you how many hundreds of times he’s heard that refrain when someone ...