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Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 Queer Beer Box

Hello Squirrel Friends! Grace Weitz here, Senior Content Editor for Hop Culture. In 2020, I started Queer Beer for one simple reason: I’d never found ...
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The Boundary-Breaking Craft Beer Instagrams We’re Following in 2023

Double tap, double down.
Undeniably and unequivocally, Instagram has become a go-to platform for craft beer, displaying gorgeous pour shots, announcing releases, facilitating trades, and more. But more recently, ...
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Strength in Unity: Why the Belgian-Inspired Fait La Force Is Nashville’s Hottest Brewery

A Victorian castle with an NBA Jam arcade.
Faces stared back at me from their Victorian frames. People of all shapes, sizes, ages, genders, and races dotted the wall. In the middle, an ...
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Three Black Brewery Owners Share How to Observe Juneteenth

A guide to respectfully observing Juneteenth.
On June 19th, 1865, a group of enslaved people in Galveston, TX, learned they had been freed from slavery…two and a-half years after President Abraham ...
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Squatters Juicy IPA: A Glass of Freshly Squeezed Hazy Deliciousness

There's no such thing as too juicy!
When Squatters released its Juicy IPA for the first time in 2019, the Salt Lake City-based brewery had no idea its version of a hazy ...
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Get Me a Slice of Some Hamm’s

Hamm it up!
In “Marriage of Figaro,” the third episode in Matthew Weiner’s monumental AMC period drama Mad Men, Don Draper, the maddest of men, undertakes an ancient ...
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Celebrate World Whisky Day With Unique Beer-Inspired Whiskey

Neat, on the rocks, or in a cocktail, whet your whistle!
Considered the water of life, whiskey (whisky) has become one of the most popular spirits in America and worldwide. So much so that even breweries ...
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What Is a Slow Pour? And Is It Worth the Wait the Seven Minute Wait!?

Would you wait 7 minutes for a beer?
I squeezed past a jostling couple, pushing my way forward to the crowded bar. Behind the counter, a mass of glasses seemed to be piling ...
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What Do 17.77 Tallboys of Pilsner Urquell, Six American Brewers, and One Bus Have in Common?

It’s 8 o’clock in the morning somewhere in Czechia. Six well-respected American brewers pile on to a bus—Peter Kiley, brewmaster at Monday Night Brewing; Shawn ...
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What Exactly Are Scotch Ales?

A deep dive into the esoteric beer style.
We don’t just serve scotch neat or on the rocks anymore. Did you know you can fill up a snifter with scotch ale? No, we’re ...
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Will You Be My Barleywine?

This isn't a trick question.
What’s a beer called a wine that’s not a wine? No, this isn’t a scene from National Treasure where we’re asking you to be Nick ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Saison Day 2023

The 12 best saison to drink on the best day in April.
On Saturday, April 29, 2023, for the tenth year in a row, saisons will take center stage. Brewers and beer fans nationwide will celebrate this ...
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Why Pickleball and Craft Beer Are the Perfect Match

What's the big dill?
A year ago, my then-seventy-five-year-old parents told me they had started playing a new sport. Twice a week, they would grab these ping-pong-looking paddles and ...
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What Is a Hefeweizen?

The beast of yeasts.
With aggressive hazy IPAs and West Coast IPAs dominating craft beer, it’s sobering to remember that other, more approachable versions of ales exist. Styles like ...
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What Is a Hazy Pale Ale?

If a hazy IPA and an American pale ale went on a date.
If we had asked that question just a few years ago, you might have looked at us like we were robots writing a beer recipe. ...
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