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What Is Bierstacheln? Stoking the Fires of a Historic Beer-Poking Surge

Heat. Sizzle. Foam.
Groups of thirsty people waited in line, huddled around a fire pit, stamping their feet to keep warm. At the front, someone drank half their ...
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The 17 Can’t Miss Beer Festivals of 2025

Mark your calendars now.
A few years ago, we traveled around the country, hosting a beer festival in a different city almost every month—Oakland; San Diego; Chicago; Portland, ME; ...
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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 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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