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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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21 Most Iconic American Breweries to Cheers on National Beer Day

Every year on April 7th, we celebrate National Beer Day. Why? Because on this day in 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect, erasing eighteen ...
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Double Hopnosis: Firestone Walker Doubles Down on Cold IPAs

Last year, Firestone Walker’s next-generation West Coast-style IPA Hopnosis became a new way to IPA. Featuring Cryo Hops, dry hopping, and, perhaps most importantly, a ...
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The 16 Most Insane Craft Beer Labels from North Carolina Breweries in 2023

For the last three years, we’ve covered the North Carolina Craft Brewers Guild’s Label Insanity Competition, and each year, the craft beer labels get more ...
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The Cult of Guinness: The Crazy History of One of the World’s Most Iconic Breweries

Over two hundred and sixty years. Countless stories. Many iconic beers. And the world's biggest stout brewery.
At five in the morning, Chris Hayden got off the plane in Dublin, Ireland. He had flown across the Atlantic Ocean for only one thing: ...
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Prison Pals, Florida’s Hottest Brewery, Gets Even Hotter

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Just under two years ago, a new brewery opened up in South Florida, a hotbed for some of the most incredible breweries in the country ...
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Luck Reunion: The Crazy Music Festival Held at Willie Nelson’s Ranch

"The life I love is making music with my friends"...and drinking with them too!
Willie Nelson, Terry Allen, the Panhandle Mystery Band, Guster, Spoon, Ethel Cain, and more will all converge on Nelson’s Luck Ranch in Spicewood, TX, on ...
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Griffin Claw Brewing Co: The Gold Standard of Breweries Turns Ten

At Griffin Claw Brewing Co. in the lower peninsula of Michigan, they use words like warm (but not motherly), charismatic (but not smooth), proud (but ...
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What Is a Cold IPA?

The hottest new IPA style...is freezing cold.
Last year was a hot year for hops. Who are we kidding? Hops have been hot for decades now. Last year in particular we covered ...
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Nowhere in the World Like Elsewhere Brewing

Drinking beers from nowhere to Elsewhere.
California, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Canada, Mexico, Peru, Colombia, Argentina, Chile, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Poland, Hungary, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, England, Scotland, Ireland. To say ...
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Get Stocked: The New E-commerce Platform Stocking Up for ‘Cooler Occasions’

Get beer for all your 'cooler occasions.'
Picture this: You walk into your local craft beer store, beverage warehouse, or even grocery store, and you’re immediately assaulted with hundreds if not thousands ...
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RationAle Brewing: Disrupting Everything You Thought About Non-Alcoholic Beer

Drinking in moderation have never been more rational.
Why do you drink craft beer? Everyone has their own reason. Perhaps you’re a hop head and you can’t get enough of those dank Pacific ...
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9 Beer Trends to Watch in 2023

What to watch in the craft beer industry in 2023.
Look, we can’t predict the future. But since we eat, drink, write breathe, and live beer every day, we do like to think we have ...
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