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Everything You Need to Know About Session IPAs

Have one, have two, have three, have more.
Beer comes in every size classification available: Small, medium, large, and Scottish. There are single-strength beers, double and triple, all the way up to quadruple. ...
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Sharing Tacos and Traditions: How Firestone Walker Honors Hop Harvest

The next great IPA is in this story
“The next great IPA is hanging above us,” muses Firestone Walker Brewmaster Matt Brynildson as he looks up amongst towering green bines of hops. All ...
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Get a Plaque with Your Name on It Forever Hanging in Oskar Blues’ Taproom

Become the "Employee of the Year" at Oskar Blues!
Oskar Blues has always done things a little differently. Twenty years ago, founder Dale Katechis decided he wanted to take craft beer on a bike ...
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We’re Grabbing a Fresh 4-Pack from These 6 NorCal Breweries to Throw in Our New CamelBak ChillBak

Chill beers for a ChillBak.
Imagine my surprise when I learned that CamelBak, the company who’s pack I’d been devotedly slinging on my back for the last ten years, calls ...
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Are Black IPAs Back from the Brink of Oblivion?

The beer style that's like a Jedi mind trick.
An intriguing style, black IPAs combine darker malts with a bevy of hops. This style falls perplexingly in the middle of a Venn diagram with ...
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The 5-Minute Guide to Hazy IPA Food Pairing

Hazy + heat = heaven.
It’s summertime. The livin’s easy. Let’s pair food with IPAs that are hazy. Brewery patrons and beer nerds can no more escape the pulpy omnipresence ...
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Introducing the CamelBak ChillBak: The First Backpack Cooler With Built-in Hydration

Your beer stays cold while you stay hydrated.
In 2013, I set off on a magical adventure with my wife. Our destination? Electric Forest in Rothbury, MI. For those who don’t know, this ...
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Favorite Beer and BBQ Pairings, According to a James Beard Award-Winning Pitmaster

Rodney Scott shares his top picks for food and drink pairings at your Fourth of July cookout.
This weekend, we’ll be gathered in the backyard with family. Most likely, fixing up a plate of Uncle Joe’s famous dry rubbed ribs, smoked wings, ...
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The Firestone Walker Invitational Returns for the First Time in Three Years

Beer festivals are back baby.
I’ll spare you the details of my pandemic-induced time warp and say this: isolation may have numbed us to the need for human connection, but ...
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The 7 Pieces of Hop Culture Merch We Love the Most

We make some pretty sweet stuff...
If we were to make a list of the top five things the Hop Culture team loves, it would probably look something like this: Craft ...
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Castle Island’s Fiver Initiative Launches a Legacy in the Local Community

One beer. Five organizations. One year of Ggving.
One beer. Five organizations. One year of giving. Philanthropy has been a core component of Castle Island since the beginning. For years, the brewery ran ...
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New Belgium Deepens DEI Commitments with Key New Hire and Inclusion Investments

How one pioneering brewery is breaking down barriers in the industry.
When Kim Jordan and Jeff Lebesch founded New Belgium in 1991, they committed to “kindling social, environmental, and cultural change as a business role model.” ...
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From Utter Defeat to Turning Up the Heat: One Man’s Journey to Turn Hops into Hot Sauce

The hotter side of hops.
It all started with an experiment gone wrong. While trying to create an aromatic jalapeno cloud, Alchemy Peppers Founder George Altshuler accidentally made a pepper ...
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Other Half D.C. Joins Queer Beer

Introducing our newest ally to Queer Beer
The first-ever in-person Queer Beer will take place at The Wharf in Washington, D.C., on Friday, June 3rd, and Saturday, June 4th, 2022. As someone ...
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Prison Pals Brewing Co. Is the Hottest New Brewery in South Florida

Escape with the most insane smoothie sours and hazies.
In recent years, South Florida has become a hotbed for breweries, welcoming standouts such as Unseen Creatures, 3 Sons, Odd Breed, and Tripping Animals into ...
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