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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

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For pretty much the last two decades, the IPA has been the No. In that time, we’ve seen the beer industry go from malty English IPAs to dank West Coast options — teeth-chatteringly bitter double and then triple and even quadruple IPAs — to softer, fruitier, and hazier New England-style options.

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Brut Busts and Brett Who? The Next Big IPA Sub-Styles That Never Were

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In January, brewery president and cofounder Dave Thibodeau hit the slopes with a Ska snowboard that outlived its advertised beer: Moral Panic, a bone-dry brut IPA that debuted in 2018 and disappeared in late 2021. A fizzy, fragrant, Champagne-inspired IPA couldn’t hack it in a world gone hazy.

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Where to Drink in Tucson, Arizona

Imbibe Magazine

opened their first café in 2012, highlighting local goods such as the Sonoran-grown chiltepin peppers that go into their cult-hit cold brew. s flagship hazy IPA. Stop by the taproom for one of their signature Micheladas and an event like drag tarot bingo. Exo Roast Co. It is a place to pay homage to craft, history, and connection.”

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

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Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. In 2012, Morgan Jappe co-founded the Brewery Running Series , whose first event was a five-kilometer run in Minneapolis that began at Fulton Beer. “It

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The 10 Weirdest Ingredients Ever Put Into Beer

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In 2012, Colorado’s first brewpub, Wynkoop Brewery, released a video on April Fool’s Day announcing a fake beer made with a regional delicacy: fried bull testicles, a.k.a. Due to the flood of curiosity and questions in response to the video, the brewery went ahead and actually brewed the beer for the 2012 Great American Beer Festival.

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Light Years: Has Britain Finally Fallen for Low-Calorie Beer?

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He founded Drinkwell , a website that sells alcoholic drinks that are lower in calories, sugar, and carbs, back in 2012, and Skinny Brands, a company producing low-calorie beer, in 2015. lager specialists Utopian and, in the Midlands, Round Corner , with whom they’ve recently created a new Hazy IPA. So what’s going on?

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

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Start a brewery, crank out some IPAs , and you, too, could become a millionaire! Their Pale Ale might be the most iconic craft beer ever made; their Celebration IPA one of the most seasonally beloved. Hill Farmstead: The first time I went to visit Hill Farmstead, circa 2012, a guy advised that I print out Mapquest (Mapquest!)

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