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Everything You Need to Know About Saison Day 2023

The 12 best saison to drink on the best day in April.
On Saturday, April 29, 2023, for the tenth year in a row, saisons will take center stage. Brewers and beer fans nationwide will celebrate this ...
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The Top Beers We Drank in April

April sours bring May flowers!
April sours bring May flowers. Isn’t that how it goes? It could, and we indeed found a few sours leaving us wide-eyed and puckering this ...
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Here’s What Happened When I Tried One of the Rarest Beers in the World

Drinking a legendary beer.
Three weeks ago, my dad and I piled in the car on a Monday morning and drove an hour and change up to Russian River’s ...
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What Is a Hefeweizen?

The beast of yeasts.
With aggressive hazy IPAs and West Coast IPAs dominating craft beer, it’s sobering to remember that other, more approachable versions of ales exist. Styles like ...
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The 37 Best Beers to Drink in Spring 2023

Beware the IPAs of March… April and May.
For many, March through May signifies spring, renewal, and a return to life. And the best spring beers we’re drinking these days reflected that. (Beware ...
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What Is a Hazy Pale Ale?

If a hazy IPA and an American pale ale went on a date.
If we had asked that question just a few years ago, you might have looked at us like we were robots writing a beer recipe. ...
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21 Most Iconic American Breweries to Cheers on National Beer Day

Every year on April 7th, we celebrate National Beer Day. Why? Because on this day in 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect, erasing eighteen ...
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Double Hopnosis: Firestone Walker Doubles Down on Cold IPAs

Last year, Firestone Walker’s next-generation West Coast-style IPA Hopnosis became a new way to IPA. Featuring Cryo Hops, dry hopping, and, perhaps most importantly, a ...
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Top Beers We Drank in March

Beware the IPAs of March!
“Beware the ides of March.” Might we say, beware the IPAs of March instead!? With spring just around the corner, daylight savings behind us, and ...
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Celebrate National Vermouth Day With These 8 Unique Vermouths

Good for more than just your martini, Manhattan, or Negroni
Every year we celebrate National Vermouth Day on March 21. But what do we really know about vermouth? Two ounces of dry gin + one ...
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The 13 Best American Pale Ales Available in Most Stores Right Now

Just remember: APA came before IPA!
We love hops! And so do you. We all can’t get enough of those little green cones. Case and point, in 2021, the Pacific Northwest ...
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The Best Cold IPAs We Drank the Last Two Years

The coolest beers from the coolest new style.
Can you guess one of the hottest beer styles of 2022? Hint: It was actually pretty cold. We saw one of the newer trends in ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in February

The best beers we drank this month.
Just because February is a short month doesn’t mean we drank less beers. In fact, we had so much incredible beer in February that we’re ...
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The Top Hops for Thiols

Why your beers smell so good.
Why do we love IPAs? Seriously, think about your answer to the question. For us, it’s because of one little cone on a bine and ...
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What Is a Cold IPA?

The hottest new IPA style...is freezing cold.
Last year was a hot year for hops. Who are we kidding? Hops have been hot for decades now. Last year in particular we covered ...
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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, ...
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