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Did You Know These Beer Styles Were Born in America?
California common, Kentucky common, light lager...
Beer’s history dates back centuries, with roots across the globe, from Africa to the Middle East to Europe. Although we love beer here in the ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in June
The beer beers we drank this month.
Hello, summer solstice! Literally, as we write this piece about the top beers of June, the sun is burning bright for the longest day of ...
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What Is Italian Grape Ale?
The best of beer and wine...in one bottle.
Italian Grape Ale is a marriage between beer and grape. These beers, particularly more modern ones, can contain funky, barnyard, farmhouse-like flavors, but they are ...
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A Liquid Legend: The Story of How Sierra Nevada Pale Ale Stays Timeless After Four Decades
A legendary beer of the past, present, and future.
In 1984, the parking lot of the Oakland Coliseum resembled the Wild Wild West. Thousands of Deadheads congregated before a Grateful Dead concert. On what ...
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Celebrate National Bourbon Day with These 8 Unique Bourbons
Nine bourbons, the ultimate two finger pour.
Did you know that in 1964 Lyndon B. Johnson gave bourbon his presidential stamp when he signed an Act of Congress that designated bourbon as ...
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Squatters Juicy IPA: A Glass of Freshly Squeezed Hazy Deliciousness
There's no such thing as too juicy!
When Squatters released its Juicy IPA for the first time in 2019, the Salt Lake City-based brewery had no idea its version of a hazy ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in May
The beer beers we drank this month.
May flowers! That’s all we can think about with the bouquet of beers we drank this past month. Like a bright, bold all-South Asian-owned brewery ...
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Subcontinental: The First-Ever All-South Asian Collab in Craft Beer
A beer that bridges borders.
Where are other people like me? That’s the question South Asian Beer Club Founder Ruvani de Silva asked herself after she moved from the United ...
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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 ...
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Best American Lagers to Drink All Summer Long
Sippin' slow.
What does summer mean to you? Could it be cannonballing into the pool, splashing around in the waves on the beach, barbecuing in the backyard, ...
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Sipping Sunshine: How Wasatch’s New Salt Lime Cerveza Puts a Zesty Twist on Mexican-Style Lagers
Put the lime in the beer and mix it all up.
“You never forget your first.” The tagline Wasatch Brewery came up with to recognize its thirty-fifth anniversary has many meanings. Sure, when founder Greg Schirf ...
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What Is a Slow Pour? And Is It Worth the Wait the Seven Minute Wait!?
Would you wait 7 minutes for a beer?
I squeezed past a jostling couple, pushing my way forward to the crowded bar. Behind the counter, a mass of glasses seemed to be piling ...
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What Exactly Are Scotch Ales?
A deep dive into the esoteric beer style.
We don’t just serve scotch neat or on the rocks anymore. Did you know you can fill up a snifter with scotch ale? No, we’re ...
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Will You Be My Barleywine?
This isn't a trick question.
What’s a beer called a wine that’s not a wine? No, this isn’t a scene from National Treasure where we’re asking you to be Nick ...
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Best Pilsners Available in Most Stores Right Now
Czech, German, Italian, and American
Simple on the outside yet complex on the inside, pilsners are a humble lager first produced by Bavarian brewery Josef Groll in Plzeň, Czech Republic, ...
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