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The Most-Read Hop Culture Articles in 2023

Don't miss these!
With 2023 finally in our rear-view mirror, let’s look back at the most-read articles of the last twelve months. To us, 2023 finally seemed like ...
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48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Rancho Cordova, California

A drinkers gold mine!
For years, we’ve documented some of the best places to travel for beer in the United States, from Portland, OR, to Portland, ME, and everywhere ...
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We Want Beer! Back to the Future With Pre-Prohibition Lager

The 21st Amendment is the best amendment!
Ninety years ago, on December 5, 1933, something magical happened. Then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt issued the 21st Amendment, repealing alcohol prohibition in the United States. ...
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The 4 Golden Rules of Shower Beer

Shower beer safely.
Drinking beer in the shower is as natural to the progression of humankind as discovering fire, inventing the wheel, and developing written language. And these ...
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The Best Beer Gifts for the Holidays 2023

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We spend all year writing about beer, checking off items on our beer bucket list (hello, Pliny the Younger), finding the best beers for you ...
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What Is a Russian Imperial Stout?

Dark and mysterious.
Stout. Just saying that word out loud gives us goosebumps. Not because they’re scary. But because when we think of some of the beers that ...
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Samuel Adams Old Fezziwig: An Ale as Old as Time Releases in Six-Packs For First Time

No bah humbugs here!
Tradition! Around the holidays, this word takes on dazzling significance. We all have them. For some, it might be baking and swapping cookies together with ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in October 2023

Scary good! ????
October is one of the most festive months of the year. Oktoberfest wraps up in the early weeks of the month, and then we immediately ...
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Wasatch Brewery’s Last One Down: The Beer For All of Life’s Adventures

First one up, last one down.
In Utah, the joke goes that most folks can ski before they can even walk. A state renowned for mountain sports, Utah has twenty-one ski ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Czech Pilsners

Meaning "from Pilsen (or Plzeň)” in Czech.
Today, pilsners have become one of the most widely consumed styles worldwide (even Miller Lite cans include the word “pilsner” on them, for goodness’ sake). ...
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The Coolest, Most Exclusive Beers of the 2024 Firestone Walker Brewmaster’s Collective

12 months. 21 bottles. One bottle society.
Firestone Walker’s Brewmaster’s Collective is one of the most fantastic brewery bottle societies in the entire country. There, we’ve said it. Seriously, this is one ...
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A Beginner’s Guide to Lambic Style Beer

Dive head first into spontaneously fermented beer!
Lambic-style beers have an air of mystery and intrigue. While the style has deep roots and tradition in Belgium, it’s only within the last decade ...
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Top 10 Beers We Drank in September 2023

We ???? Fall!
September has been one of our favorite months of the year so far with some of the top beers we drank all year. The NFL ...
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The Best Beers to Drink in Fall 2023

Autumn, fall, foliage, pumpkins, Oktoberfests, oh my.
To us, drinking the best beers in fall follows the changing colors of the leaves, starting with green fresh hop jewels from the recent harvest, ...
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Kōkua Project: A Worldwide Collaboration Benefiting Those Impacted by the Maui Wildfires

'Ohana means family.
Lāhainā was an idyllic town of around 13,000 people (Data USA and U.S. Census Bureau); a place of history, royalty, and visitors. With resorts up ...
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