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Hop Culture’s Top 20 Favorite Articles of 2025

Pull up a pint and start reading!
With 2025 all wrapped up like a holiday present under the tree, let’s look back at the articles we enjoyed writing the most during the ...
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Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2025

Points and pints!
Discovering new places, beer cities, and meccas for craft is one of the best parts of our job. Undoubtedly, we went on some crazy beer ...
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Anomaly: The Award-Winning THC Seltzer Taking Flavor Exploration to New Galaxies

The next frontier.
If Bottle Logic built its reputation by pushing the boundaries of beer, Anomaly is where that same spirit blasts off into the THC universe. The ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial Stouts [UPDATED]

Barrel-aged beauties!
Why do we love stouts? Un-stout-edly, we shout from the rooftops for the dark depths of these dank-defying beers because they touch our souls. And ...
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How to Spend Five Days in Bavaria and Franconia

Prost!
Nestled into Germany’s southeastern quadrant, Bavaria and Franconia are the country’s drinking soul—and both beat to the rhythm of clinking steins, sizzling sausages, and centuries-old ...
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Brew Free or Dive Trying: The Orca Brau Story

A whale in the wild.
“Save Orcas, Drink Beer.” That’s the motto at Orca Brau, a craft brewery in Nuremberg, Germany, that’s flying high above what founder Felix vom Endt ...
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What Is Rauchbier? A Smoky History

Let's clear this up.
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in October 2024 but has been updated after the Hop Culture team took a recent trip to Munich ...
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Schlenkerla: The Historic Smoked Beer Brewery

We want all the smoke!
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in September 2024 but has been updated after the Hop Culture team took a recent trip to Munich ...
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The 5-Minute Guide to Cannabis and Craft Beer Flavor Pairings

Get in the Mood.
You know that moment when you’re halfway through an old-school West Coast IPA and suddenly think, “Wow, this tastes kind of…weedy?” Turns out, you’re not ...
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Discovering Mountain Life at Outer Range Brewing Co.

What would the mountain woman say?
Editor’s Note: This piece was originally published in July 2018. We recently visited Outer Range’s new location in the French Alps, so we thought it ...
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Varsity Brews: 17 Questions With Fritzi Lara Lino

A new Hop Culture Q&A series.
This year, we introduced an entirely new series called Varsity Brews. With each quarterly piece, we profile a different scholarship awardee from the Michael James ...
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No Seasons, All Heart: Theo Castillo’s People-First Approach to Brewing

One word: hot.
A nomadic brewery that started producing and distributing beer in South Florida just last year, No Seasons is already making waves—enough to land on our ...
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Flying High: The Steady Ascent of Icarus Brewing

It's not just a myth anymore.
Greek mythology includes the story of Icarus, a son imprisoned with his father, a master craftsman named Daedalus. Icarus escaped by building himself wings. Before ...
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Baltic Porter? I Hardly Know ‘Er!

The black sheep of the porter family.
Craft beer’s lexicon brims with necessary qualifiers, like “double dry-hopped,” “barrel aged,” and “imperial.” A handful of those descriptors refer to nationalities and cultures, too, ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Märzens [UPDATED 2025]

Toast! Prost!
Yes, it is the best time of the year. To us, this is indisputable. When fall rolls into town, blowing in its red, orange, and ...
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