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48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Nelson Tasman, New Zealand

It's always sunny in Nelson Tasman...seriously.
The sunshine capital of New Zealand, Nelson Tasman, may not be at the top of everyone’s bucket list when they visit Aotearoa, the Māori world ...
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Blue Ox: Started From the Floor-Malting, Now We’re Here

The more the maltier.
A time-honored tradition of malting grain, floor-malting isn’t something we typically see here in the States. But a select few craft maltsters have dedicated themselves ...
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Blue Brew: Kenneth & Masako Mukai’s Brewery Dream Comes True in Kochi

From the big city to the little island.
Up in a little mountain valley in Kochi Prefecture, on Japan’s smallest main island, Shikoku, is the Mukai Craft Brewing / Blue Brew Taproom, a ...
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The 11 Best Breweries in Brooklyn, NY

Best beer from one of the best boroughs.
For several years, the Hop Culture team called New York City home. We still miss venturing out to the bodega in the morning (or late ...
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Everything You Need to Know About International Tripel Day

One...two...three...
A style with a cult-like following in the industry, tripels aren’t usually the first Belgian style that comes to everyone’s mind. But on International Tripel ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in February 2025

Roses are red...
Ambers are red; blueberry sours are blue. In February, we drank a lot of brews. Some from our “Best New Breweries of 2024.” Others from ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in January 2025

Happy new beer.
New year, new month, new beers. We’re approaching 2025 with a lot of drive, and it’s already kicking into overdrive. We have a slew of ...
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Amalgam Brewing: The Tiny Tank Engine That Could

The sum of all its parts.
Tucked away in the corner of one of the most respected lager breweries in the entire country is a tiny tank brewing some of the ...
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Busting Non-Alcoholic Beer Myths With Sam Adams Award-Winning NA Brewer

All the way on NA
Non-alcoholic beer is here to stay. That’s not a myth. According to NielsenIQ, off-premise non-alc sales from the last fifty-two weeks recorded $740 million, up ...
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The Top 14 People to Watch in Craft Beer in 2025

We all spend an enormous amount of time appreciating the liquid in the can, but what about the person behind the beer? At the beginning ...
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The Top 10 New Non-Alcoholic Beverages We’re Drinking for Dry January

What's in our fridge.
Are you participating in Dry January this year? You’re not alone. According to research by The New Consumer/Coefficient, forty-nine percent of Gen Z and Millennial ...
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The Cult of Christmas Beers

Twelve bottles a popping....
What makes us stand in line for hours just to pick up a few hazy boi cans? Or what has us planning a dream vacation ...
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The 11 Best Breweries of 2024

Bigger, better, beerier?
Every year, we think this list will get harder and harder to make. But then we get off our butts to drink at incredible beer ...
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The 20 Best Brewery Memberships, Bottle Societies, and Beer Clubs

Join now!
You all loved this piece so much the past couple of years that we’ve decided to keep updating it yearly, adding new brewery memberships and ...
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Top 10 Beers We Drank in November 2024

Stouts...lots of stouts.
Last month, we drank a lot of beer, traveling from Bellevue to Yakima Valley, WA, for the hop harvest and finally to Denver for the ...
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