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27 Seasonal Beer Releases Worth Traveling For [MAP]

VinePair

Imperial Stout Trooper Availability: Late Fall-early Winter Upon its initial release in 2010, Imperial Stout Trooper famously got New England Brewing Co. The brewery has since changed up the packaging, but that hasn’t stopped it from putting out this decadent stout every year when the weather turns frosty.

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This Week's Beer News: Thousands of New Untappd Awards

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Subscribe now Vinepair’s Taplines podcast has an interesting conversation with Seth Gross, one of the original brewers at Goose Island Clybourn back in the 90s and early 2000s, all about the birth of Bourbon County Stout. If you haven’t listened to that one, you should! Time Out and PorchDrinking previewed this year’s St.

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The Best American Whiskey Of 2025 According To The Whiskey Wash Awards

The Whiskey Wash

Established in 2011, Virginia Distillery Company is located in Lovingston, Virginia, and uses copper pot stills imported from Scotland to distill its single malts. The distillery specializes in American single malt whiskey, crafted from Pacific Northwest barley and ale yeast, and aged in new American oak barrels.

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

The fact they didn’t distribute meant you had to actually go to their idyllic tasting room and brewery (right on the property of Hill’s family home that seven generations have lived and worked on) in order to try their magnificent Vermont-style pales and IPAs, farmhouse ales, stouts and barleywines. Does anybody still care?

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HBD Haymarket! This Week's Chicagoland Beer Events & Socials

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

On January 12, 2011, something very important happened in the Chicago beer world: Haymarket Pub & Brewery opened for the first time. That means that today is Haymarket’s 13th birthday, and they’re celebrating with some special gifts for us: Their award-winning Defender Stout and Matthias IPA.

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The Evolution of the IPA, from 19th Century England to Now

VinePair

Some sip like lagers , some like sours , and others like witbiers or stouts. Some attribute the substyle’s creation to Colorado’s New Belgium Brewing Company and its dry-hopped, golden sour ale Le Terroir circa 2011. There’s very little that the IPA hasn’t been able to achieve.

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Savour the Season: Leading Cask Brewer in the UK Rolls Out Two Summer- Exclusive Cask Brews

Bar Magazine

Based in Brighton, Laine Brew Co opened its brew-house in 2011 and now offers a core range of accessible craft beers and short run specials with the aim to delight and excite beer drinkers. 1 Scottish Stout Belhaven Black. 1 Ale Belhaven Best and the No.1

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