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Schilling Oktoberfest Is Peak Gemütlichkeit: Warm, Fuzzy, and Full of Great Beer

Prost!
A brewery born from Germanic roots, Schilling has become one of the most well-respected lager-centric breweries in the entire country in a relatively short amount ...
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What Exactly Is a Kettle Sour?

Breaking down the tart, lactic sour beers.
Sour beer: a term many American beer drinkers have used to describe beer negatively for decades. Although popular globally for centuries with the likes of ...
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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter

The beer that will never be pushing daisies.
“I’ll take a Daisy.” Half Acre Beer Co. Co-Founder Gabriel Magliaro can’t tell you how many hundreds of times he’s heard that refrain when someone ...
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Duck Sauce, Duke’s Mayo, & Durham – Catching Up With DSSOLVR

Surrealist beers that melt your face.
Even Vince Tursi and Mike Semenec, co-founders of one of North Carolina’s most highly stylized and sought-after breweries, DSSOLVR, probably didn’t imagine mayonnaise and Chinese ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated American IPAs

Hop Hop Hooray!
Happy National IPA Day! You may have already noticed, but we’ve been giving hops their humble (laugh) due for the past couple of weeks to ...
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We Asked 13 Brewers: What Was Your First IPA?

Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy!
Do we love anything more than an origin story? Especially when discovering the first IPA some of the best brewers around the country drank. Everyone’s ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial New England-Style/Hazy IPAs

Juice for days.
You don’t need us to tell you that hazy IPAs are the darling of beer, the twinkle in everyone’s eye, the bee’s knees, the cat’s ...
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Brewing for Impact With Fonio: A 5,000-Year-Old Miracle Grain from Western Africa Forging the Future

Hold the fonio.
It all began with a chance meeting at Questlove’s house. “That’s a line you can’t make up,” thirty-year Brooklyn Brewmaster Garrett Oliver tells me with ...
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A Day in the Mind of a Homebrew Competition Judge

Professional beer taster.
I walked down a hallway between the tap room and the barrel room of Funky Buddha Brewery. In the corner I saw a couple of ...
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What Is an Italian Pilsner?

Yes, the Italians make more than just pizza and wine.
The humble pilsner can seem simple, but beneath those golden ripples and frothy head is a beer that can be cunningly complex. Ask around, and ...
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The Three of Cups: Connecting the Dots Between Beer and Tarot

Three hooded figures raise goblets with skull-like faces up towards the sky, shimmering like the waves of a mirage. They seem on the verge of ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated American Light Lagers

Perfect for the Fourth of July!
We’ve come a long way from filling our red solo cups with that American light lager. And while we no longer play flip cup with ...
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Firestone Walker Has Never Done This Before

When Firestone Walker released its newest West Coast IPA mixed pack earlier this year, they did something they never had before: capturing the full arc ...
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A Day in the Life of a Czech Tapster

1 million beers poured and counting.
The Czechs have a saying that goes something like this: “The brewer brews the beer, but the tapster makes it.” In Czechia, drinking isn’t just ...
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Our Favorite Breweries and Bars to Visit in Czechia

Na zdraví!
At the beginning of April, I joined a five-day beer trade mission to Czechia led by The Czech Ministry of Agriculture. Over the last half-decade, ...
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