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The 10 Weirdest Ingredients Ever Put Into Beer

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Putting unorthodox ingredients and adjuncts into beer is nothing new. Pumpkin beer has marked spooky season since the early ‘80s and the pastry stout boom of the mid-2010s saw everything from brownies and marshmallows to coffee and ancho chiles get added to brews. We’ve actually tried this one, and it’s pretty damn good.

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The Most Iconic Cease and Desist Cases in Drinks History

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offers a few crowd-favorites, including its Fuzzy Baby Ducks IPA and its Star Wars-inspired Imperial Stout Trooper. promptly filed a cease and desist order requesting that the brewery change the beer’s design. has brewed a batch of the stout every winter, and the revised label hasn’t changed. Lucasfilm Ltd.

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

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craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. If craft breweries were once started by people with a pure passion for drinking “better beer,” eventually they started to be seen as easy money by entrepreneurial types. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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The Spice Is Right: Why Brewers Are Betting Big on Micheladas

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The Mexican beer cocktail classically merges a lager with lime juice, hot sauce, and perhaps tomato juice or Clamato , with no two recipes alike. It was the most labor-intensive beer that we’d made,” Ramey says of the canned Michelada , first released in early 2020.

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How the Brits Got Bored of Brewdog

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As one Twitter user put it recently , “When you see Brewdog trending it’s never because they’ve made a lovely new beer, is it?” According to Alex Myers, Manifest founder and CEO, the brief was simple: “Redefine beer in the U.K., The strategy was to make everyone as passionate about craft beer as we are,” he adds.