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The 11 Craft Beer Trends to Watch in 2025

To thrive in 2025...
When the calendar page flips each year, we have a few things at the top of our minds. First, we put down on paper our ...
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Hop Culture’s Most-Read Articles of 2024

Grab a beer and catch up on what you missed!
With 2024 all wrapped up like a holiday present under the tree, let’s look back at the most-read articles of the last twelve months. Hop ...
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The Top Places We Want to Travel for Beer in 2025

Make sure your passport is updated.
We went to a lot of top places for beer in 2024—London, Manchester, Edinburgh, Czechia, Paso Robles, CA, Bellevue, WA, the Yakima Valley, and Denver, ...
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Our Top 6 Beer Resolutions for 2025

5...4...3...2...1
For the first time last year, we actually took a moment from our breakneck pace of drinking, traveling, discovering, and writing, not just to look ...
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Our 10 Favorite Beer Labels of 2024

Art inside the can...and out.
Colorful characters, blooming flowers, and sneakers. A cloaked reaper, a giant burrito, and a cat. In 2024, beer labels continue to get simultaneously kookier, crazier, ...
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The Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2024

Where in the world?
Over the last 365ish days, we’ve enjoyed some serious travel just for beer. Undoubtedly, discovering new places, beer cities, and meccas for craft is one ...
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Are You Brewing Gold? Enter The Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the ‘World’

Register now!
One of the world’s most prestigious and esteemed craft beer competitions, the World Beer Cup® (WBC), has celebrated the best in beer every year since ...
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Saving People With Prostates One Pint at a Time

The line wrapped around the entire building, stretching into the parking lot and curling around on itself like a puppy chasing its tail. In the ...
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At 17x-Award-Winning Formula Brewing, the Perfect Party Is the One You Never Want to Leave

Recipe for success
The formula for success at the only brewery in Issaquah (aka “the Quah”), WA, is pretty simple: “What makes the ideal party?” Formula Brewing Founder ...
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New Program Donates Equipment to Black and Brown Brewers

Giving new life to seasoned equipment.
Equipment and capital are the two highest barriers to entry in the craft beer industry, especially for underrepresented communities. To help Brewers of Color overcome ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Festbiers

A strong golden German lager similar to a helles, just maltier, the Festbier has become the official beer of Munich’s annual Oktoberfest. Historically, the beers ...
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How to Pack Beer (or Wine) for a Flight

Demystifying the most important part of any trip.
How to securely, safely, and legally pack beer, wine, and even liquor into your checked luggage for a flight home. ...
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Don’t Miss the Funkytown Collab Raising $5,000 for Diversity Scholarships

Paying it forward with pints.
Who in the Helles Left the Gate Open? That’s the name and question a new collaboration between Funkytown Brewery (one of our “14 Best Breweries ...
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What Is a Kriek Beer?

We're cheery for cherry beer!
One of my first experiences with a Kriek was at The Sovereign, the Belgian beer bar in Washington, D.C. I was afforded the chance to ...
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All That Glitters Will Be Gold Again: A Shimmering Glitter Beer Resurgence?

Not just a mirage.
Swirling, translucent, shimmering, the glass almost seemed to vibrate, like a wormhole to another universe. Look long enough within its sparkling depths, and you might ...
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