The Culture of Craft Beer

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How to Take the Best Beer Pics With Your Pet

Lights. Camera. Sit. Stay. Action.
Combining pets and beer is one of the most popular trend for beerstagrammers on Instagram and social media. Here are tips on the best way ...
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The Fermenting Ecosystem: Scratch Brewing in Ava, Illinois

How a hard-to-find brewery become a midwestern beer mecca.
At Scratch Brewing, the ingredients are local, the processes are unique, and the production is tiny. So how has this hard to find brewery become ...
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Hazy IPAs and Clear Skies in Guadalajara

A conversation with the guys who are leading the juicy revolution in Mexico.
How brewery owners Hector Vielma and Edgar Vallin are taking hops and haze south of the border with their new venture: Cielito Lindo. ...
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The 12 Best Beer Events of 2017

A look back at the best beer experiences of the year.
A look back at the best beer events and experiences in 2017. ...
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Lyft Launches Beer in Chicago

You can now drink Lyft at the bar, and then take a Lyft home afterwards.
The ride-sharing app Lyft announced that it will be partnering with Chicago’s Baderbrau Brewing Co. to release Five Star Lager. ...
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I’m a Female Beer Server and Men Won’t Trust Me

Female beer server Christie Dix explores the gender bias in craft.
Female beer server Christie Dix explores the gender bias in craft beer. ...
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Our 12 Favorite Beer-Drinking Pets on Instagram

Four legs and more followers than any of us.
They have four legs and more followers than any of us. These are the best pets — dogs, cats, and bearded dragons — that love ...
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The Conflicting Chaos of The Great American Beer Festival

Reflections and ruminations after the fact.
Armed only with a pen, a tasting glass, and quickly slipping sobriety, one writer explores all the craziness of the 2017 Great American Beer Fest. ...
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This Brewery Incubator Wants to Make You a Professional Brewer

North Carolina's Rocky Mount Mills provides turnkey systems for aspiring brewmasters.
Want to become a professional brewer? The brewery incubators at North Carolina’s Rocky Mount Mills can help make that happen. ...
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In Order to Survive, Craft Beer Must Learn Restraint

Spontaneously fermented peach sour aged over hibiscus?
For the last decade of American craft, we’ve been awash in flavor. But in order to survive, craft beer must learn restraint. ...
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Can Jam, and the Era of the Better Beer Festival

Beer tastes better when drinking with friends, not standing in line.
Now in its fourth iteration, Can Jam is setting the bar for how beer festivals can serve the best, while remaining intimate. ...
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Mikkeller Brewed a ‘Stranger Things’ Inspired Beer

Exclusively for Scandinavian Airlines.
Northern Trails is served up in a glow-in-the-dark can, and only on Scandinavian Airlines flights. We’re buying our tickets now. ...
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The Best of the Great American Beer Festival 2017

A subjective survey.
We pick the best beers and breweries from the Great American Beer Festival 2017 in Denver, Colorado. ...
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Brewers Association to Buy AB-InBev

Just a cool $213 billion.
The Brewers Association launches #takecraftback, the world’s largest crowdfunding campaign for $213 billion to buy Anheuser-Busch InBev. ...
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Our Favorite Homebrewing Festival Returns, With a Great Cause

Unlike many of the more popular festivals, there’s nothing repetitious about Brewing Up a Cure or its lineup.
The people behind Pittsburgh’s Brewing Up a Cure Beer Festival are passionate about beer, ambitious with their creativity, and generous in their intentions. ...
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I Brought My Baby to a Beer Festival

Despite some early trepidation, I'd totally do it again.
Despite some early trepidation — will this be super cute or super annoying? — the beer community proved once again it’s full of nothing but ...
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