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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. But through its ups and down, craft beer has proven that it is here to stay, now a part of the culinary and cultural fabric of not just American life, but life all over the world. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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Where to Drink in Greenpoint, Brooklyn

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Achilles Heel Before the Greenpoint riverfront was a near unbroken string of high-rise condos, restaurateur Andrew Tarlow (Diner, She Wolf, Marlow & Sons), opened Achilles Heel in 2013 on a tucked-away side street. More than 200 bottles expand the selection further, but don’t worry—they’re here to walk you through it.

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Bart Watson Appointed as President and CEO of the Brewers Association

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On Tuesday, the Brewers Association (BA) a not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers announced that Bart Watson will be taking on the role of president and CEO of the organization starting January 6. Admittedly, 2024 has not been the best year for the American craft beer industry.

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Breweries Are Finding Fertile Partnerships With Gardeners and Plant Collectors

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The symmetry makes sense as I sample the garden, the connection between beer and the botanical expanse always at hand. When we first started this event [in 2013], the garden was still sleepy,” Windhager says. “It Nance also introduced a popular Plants & Pints night at Barking Armadillo that partners beer with potting plants.

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Fertilized by Opportunity and Innovation, Cider Is Expanding Its Appeal

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Craft beer distorts the concept of locality. All this innovation is mimicking what cider does naturally,” says Andrew Blake, who in 2013 founded Blake’s Hard Cider on the apple-producing Armada, Michigan, farmstead that his family started operating in 1946. In the early 2010s, craft brewers championed an anything-goes ethos.

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Bring Back Stewart’s Mountain Brew, the Beloved Budget Beer of the Adirondacks

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MBI and MBL With Mountain Brew Beer Ice off to a promising start, Stewart’s launched a lower-ABV version called Mountain Brew Light in 2013, and subsequently redesigned both cans’ packaging. Unfortunately for Stewart’s, the early to mid-2010s saw the nation’s collective palate begin to gravitate toward craft beer.

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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

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1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. 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. Maine Beer Co.

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