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The Culture of Craft Beer
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Back in November, I announced that Hop Culture was selling to Next Glass, the parent company to Untappd, Oznr, and BeerAdvocate. In that article, I ...
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Stormalong Cider Launches A First-of-its-Kind Nitro Hard Tea
We’re taking the pulse on Vital Sign, a new nitro hard tea brand.
Innovation drives the craft beer industry. Already this year, we’ve seen a new series of CBD-infused drinks, a line of sparkling hard teas, and even ...
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Ales for ALS™ Has Raised $3.5 Million Through Beer. Here’s What They’re Doing Next.
Raise a pint and help find a cure for ALS.
Beer has the power to create change. Over the past year, we’ve seen beer leveraged to fight racial injustice and police brutality, to raise money ...
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Check Out the Schedule for Queer Beer
Get ready for Hop Culture's most colorful and vibrant festival!
The day is almost here for The Hop Culture x Samuel Adams Presents Queer Beer Fest. With the festival just around the corner check out ...
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One Simple Thing New Belgium Did To Become One Of The Most LGBTQ+ Friendly Breweries In The Country
Leading the way in diversity and inclusion for over 30 years.
According to a first-of-its-kind benchmarking survey released in 2019 by the Brewers Association, 88 percent of independent brewery owners and 89 percent of brewers are ...
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How Chart Industries Helps Breweries Treat Wastewater
Chart Industries new technology helps breweries be more safe and sustainable.
Sustainability has become a tenet for many breweries, striving to reduce their carbon footprint and their impact on the environment. Unfortunately, brewing can be a ...
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A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats: How Ballast Point Brewing Shaped Craft Beer for the Past 25 Years
How one brewery has shaped innovation in craft beer for the last two and a half decades.
During the late 1990s the craft beer scene in San Diego had just started to bloom. A strong homebrewing community had taken root and would ...
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Massachusetts’ Gayest Brewery Makes Damn Good Beer
Gay-owned Dorchester Brewing is a place of good beer and good company for all.
Once upon a time, before it was annexed by Boston, Dorchester was a city rather than a neighborhood. Were it still a city, it would ...
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How Samuel Adams Supports the LGBTQ+ Community
With initiatives like Love Conquers All, Samuel Adams has been a pioneer in the LGBTQ+ community for the last decade.
All across the beer industry, LGBTQ+ brewers and their allies are speaking up in favor of the value and voice of the queer community. And ...
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Attend Queer Beer, Support The Transgender Law Center
Hop Culture will be partnering with the Transgender Law Center for its inaugural Queer Beer Fest.
Are you attending Hop Culture’s Queer Beer Festival? Each participant gets a box of 10 beers made by — or in support of — members ...
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25 Years of Firestone Walker: An Interview with Co-Founder David Walker
Looking back at two and a half decades of innovation in craft beer
Craft beer culture arguably hit its peak in the mid to late 2010s as the number of American craft breweries soared and macro breweries began ...
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The Story Behind Oberon Day and The Release of One of Bell’s Most Popular Beers
The first signs of spring.
Flowers budding, sun shining, snow melting, baseball bats cracking. And, Bell’s Brewery Oberon flowing. Certainly for those in Michigan and now for people around the ...
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How Roadhouse Brewing Co.’s New Seltzy Launch Is Redefining the Hard Seltzer Game
Hard seltzer. Two tiny words that have had a huge impact on the craft beer industry. In 2020 alone hard seltzers grew into a $4.14 ...
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How Precision Fermentation is Revolutionizing Craft Beer Technology
Making better beer -- with science!
Brewing is a delicate balancing act, marrying a precise scientific process with the room for creativity and art. To craft a fantastic beer, a brewer ...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Hop Blends: How BSG Hops Is Changing the Entire Hop Game
What exactly is a hop blend?
What is the most popular ingredient in craft beer? We’d bet our whole stock of Pliny the Younger that nine of 10 people would answer ...
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