Craft Beer Travel Guides

Planning your next vacation or trip? The Hop Culture team has been all over and we have chronicled some of the best places to visit if you’re looking for your next beer destination.

The 12 Best Breweries of 2021

The best beer makers of 2021
Of all the Hop Culture pieces that people look forward to each year, the most popular is our list of the best breweries of the ...
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The 11 Best Breweries and Bars in Pittsburgh, According to an Expert

The best of the 'Burgh.
If you spent a perfect day drinking in the Steel City, what would it look like? Would you visit bars, breweries, or restaurants? All three? ...
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Weathered Souls Brewing to Open New Location in Charlotte, NC

Founder of Black Is Beautiful to open new location.
After five years of racking up accolades (including Hop Culture’s own “Best Brewery of 2020” award) Weathered Souls Brewing Co-Founder is taking things a step ...
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The 6 Best Breweries to Visit in South Carolina

White sand beaches. Green golf courses. Gold breweries.
Perhaps best known for its white-sand beaches and green golf courses, South Carolina is also famous for its palmetto trees. According to legend, the tree ...
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The 6 Best Breweries to Visit in New Hampshire

Stunning sours and hazy IPAs across Interstate 89.
We’ve heard it said that New Hampshire is just a pass-through while driving to Vermont or Massachusetts, but we think that’s crazy. In fact, the ...
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The 6 Hottest Things About Untappd’s New Beer Fest in San Diego

Sun, sand, suds, and special beers. It’s a homerun!
Last month our friends at Untappd announced their first in-person beer festival of the year hosted at Petco Park, home of the Padres, in sunny ...
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7 Under-the-Radar Breweries to Visit This Summer

Throughout the past three decades there are certain breweries that have changed the landscape of the industry, often introducing curious beer drinkers to their first ...
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The 5 Best Breweries to Visit in San Diego, California

Sun-drenched IPAs and standout stouts in America's finest city.
We know what you’re thinking: Isn’t San Diego old news? Hasn’t this city been the homebrewing capital of the country for years? And we say, ...
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The 5 Best Breweries to Visit in Houston, Texas

The Space City has a few breweries that are out of this world.
Over the last half-decade, Houston has become a hub for breweries excelling at bringing the hazy IPA craze to the South. In fact, breweries in ...
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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery Brings Their Off-Centered Ales To Wynwood, Miami

Dogfish Head's newest venture will be an art project first, brewery second.
Dogfish Head Craft Brewery is coming to Miami. The Delaware-based brewery, which teamed up with Boston Beer Company in 2019 to form the nation’s second-largest ...
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Miami’s Newest Brewery, Shōjō Beer Co, Features One Heck Of A Crazy Backstory

Double tap if you like Miami's newest brewery.
Over the last several years, one of the most engaging craft beer personalities on Instagram has been Haidar Hachem, aka @thirsty_samurai_piggy. Whether posing in a ...
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The 10 Best Breweries to Watch in 2021

The breweries we'll be keeping an eye on in the new year.
With 2020 firmly in the rearview, it’s time to focus on 2021. A couple of weeks back we shared both a few of our favorite ...
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The 12 Best Craft Breweries of 2020

The best of the best.
The piece I wait all year to write! The dozen best breweries of 2020. These are the breweries that, over the course of the year, ...
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The 10 Best New Breweries of 2020

Meet the best rookie prospects in craft beer!
Normally, after a year of traveling and drinking our way across the country, the Hop Culture team has a pretty great idea of the top ...
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A Drive-Thru Review of Hoof Hearted Dragonsaddle Day 2020

As the editor of a craft beer magazine, I’m not supposed to have favorites. But Hoof Hearted Brewing, with locations in rural Marengo, Ohio, as ...
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How to Spend a Beer-Fueled Day in Phoenix, Arizona

Your craft beer travel guide for Phoenix.
Across the United States from my home of Pittsburgh sits a city with no daylight savings, heat so humid you could fry an egg on ...
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