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What Is Kölsch Service? And Why You Need to Try It Right Now

All you can drink kölsch.
As soon as I finished a cold, crisp gulp of my kölsch, setting the empty glass down on the table, a fresh, new one appeared. ...
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The 5-Minute Guide to Pairing Food With Beer

A cheat sheet to nailing your beer and food pairings.
Want to level up your dining experience with a choice beer but struggle with where to start? You’re not alone. I’ll confess, I make no ...
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Inside the Minds of Resident Culture’s Art Duo: Where Your Weird Is Welcome

A little kooky, a lot funny, and never too sad.
You can’t mention Charlotte, NC, and craft beer in the same sentence without writing Resident Culture. The brewery originally opened in the Plaza Midwood neighborhood ...
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The Truth Behind Sour Beer Calories

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Of all the crazy beer rumors floating around the internet, one of the strangest and most persistent is that sour beer has fewer calories than ...
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Hop Water Makes a Big Splash Into Non-Alcoholic Beer

Hops + water = ❤️
A few years ago, we speculated: Is Craft Sparkling Water the Next Big Thing? While we can’t say we predicted that trend, we got pretty ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Ten — Why We Wrote 16,000 Words for This Series

Part ten of ten.
I stood on the top of a shipping container as the rain cascade down on me. A million thoughts poured through my head as I ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Quadruple IPAs

Not single, not double, not triple...
A few years ago, Hop Culture joined the Next Glass family, which includes, among other brands, BeerAdvocate and Untappd, the world’s largest craft beer social ...
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A Hazy by Any Other Name Would Still Smell As Juicy

We ❤️ hazy beer!
When star-crossed lover Juliet proclaims, “That which we call a rose by any other name would smell as sweet,” in William Shakespeare’s play Romeo and ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Eight — How Consumers Can Champion Underrepresented Breweries

Part eight of ten.
The industry needs allies. And you can be one of them. More breweries speaking out and doing the work is great, but craft beer also ...
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Three New Black-Owned Breweries Diversifying the Texas Beer Scene

Turning up the heat in Texas.
Can you guess which state has the largest Black population in the U.S.? You might not immediately think of Texas, but with 3,936,669 Black people, ...
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Top 3 Awesome Australian Hops: Discover the Hops Reshaping Craft Beer

Galaxy, Vic Secret, Enigma, oh my!
Galaxy®, Vic Secret™, Eclipse®, Enigma®, Ella®, and Topaz™. What do all these hop varieties have in common? Not only are they some of the hottest ...
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Goldspot Brewing: The Pot of Gold at the End of the Rainbow

One hundred percent Queer- and Woman-owned.
It’s noon on a Thursday, and a group of white straight cis-men gathers in a low-ceilinged taproom in the Northwest corner of Denver, CO. They’re ...
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Czech Me Out! A Czech Dark Lager Primer

Take a trip to the dark side.
Month by month, lagers seemingly occupy more real estate and enjoy higher esteem in America’s craft beer culture. Think of the lager’s rise as a ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part Six — Crafting Inclusive Events for Your Community

Part six of ten.
Imagine the last beer you drank. What did it taste like? Maybe it was a bitter West Coast IPA with bold, bright notes of citrus. ...
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The Whole Truth: How Lady Justice Brewing Balances the Scales of Beer

All rise.
In 2009, Lady Justice Brewing Co-Founders Betsy Lay, Jen Cuesta, and Kate Power served in the AmeriCorps VISTA program, living at the poverty level while ...
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