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What Is a Winter Warmer?

Pull up a chair by the fire.
A couple of reindeer sit in plush forest green chairs before a roaring fire. Outside, snow-capped mountains abound while a red sleigh sits unused. Each ...
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The 9 Craft Beer Trends to Watch in 2024

We’ve set our new ‘beer’ resolutions for the year, we’ve told you which non-alcoholic brands to try, and we’ve shown you the breweries that we’re ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Dark Lagers

Come over to the dark side.
We’re starting the year with a statement: Could it be the “Year of the Dark Lager”? Last year, we saw Czech beers rise like crazy, ...
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Walking Tree Brewing: Staying Rooted, Shots of Barleywine

Shut the f**k up and drink a beer!
I hooked my thumb onto the rim of a 4oz shot glass full of English barleywine. Balancing my pinky underneath and keeping my knuckles plastered ...
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The 15 Hop Culture Articles We Loved the Most in 2023

Read these, right now!
Well, the clock has finally struck midnight on 2023; the sparkly crystal ball dropped; the last dregs of champagne have gone stale in those silly ...
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Our Top 11 New ‘Beer’ Resolutions for 2024

Starting the year right.
Every early January, we put together a piece on the top trends to look out for in the new year. As we’re wont to do ...
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The Top Places for Beer Travel in 2024

Save up those miles!
We went to a lot of places in 2023—Paris, Lille, Belgium, Bratislava, Nashville, Munich, Rancho Cordova, Vermont, Austin, Manhattan, Los Angeles, and Tokyo, just to ...
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Thar She Blows!: Breweries That Come Down to That One White Whale

Call me Ishmael.
Flagship beers or the white whale are a staple of craft brewing. They’re the old reliables, the ones you always see on tap, in cans, ...
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Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2023

Planes, trains, and auto-mo-beer!
Over the last couple of years, we’ve enjoyed bringing you our best under-the-radar beer states and under-the-radar beer cities. And in the past, we’ve named ...
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Samuel Adams Just the Haze: The Holy Hoppy Grail of Non-Alcoholic Beer

Award-winning non-alcoholic hazy.
Boston Beer Co. Founder Jim Koch is no stranger to bucking convection and embracing innovation. He launched his own brewery with a recipe for Vienna ...
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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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In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Heilig Hart

Holy water!
The bus pulled into an empty church parking lot on a Wednesday morning. Looking around, we found not a soul in sight. No parishioners… No ...
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Meet Orval’s Anne-Françoise Pypaert, the First Female Trappist Brewmaster

One trout, one ring, one beer, two women.
Legend has it that Abbaye d’Orval started with one woman. As the story goes, Countess Matilde of Tuscany, freshly widowed and grieving, stopped by a ...
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Brasserie de la Senne: The People’s Brewery of Belgium

A river (of beer) runs through it.
Yvan De Baets and his team had to laugh when his brewery Brasserie de la Senne opened in Brussels, Belgium, in 2010. “We had a ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial Pastry Stouts

Like grown up kids in a candy store!
Reese’s Peanut Butter Cups, maple syrup, coconut truffles, oh my. Cacao nibs, marshmallow fluff, nuts galore, and even pies in the sky. When it comes ...
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