Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

Normally, there’s no real good reason to leave Santa Barbara, California, and drive due north on Mission Canyon Road in search of great beer. That day, the 78-acre expanse temporarily transforms into the Beer Garden, a festival that encourages attendees to stroll past California plants—and drink them too.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

In 2014, when Aubrey Bailey left her job at the world-famous French Laundry restaurant to open a bar in downtown Napa, expectations were low. Instead, Bailey’s Cadet Wine + Beer Bar played a major role in the revitalization of Napa’s formerly sleepy downtown. Everyone told me, ‘You’ll be back in six months,’” she says, laughing.

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They bonded over their love of beer, lamenting that few mainstream beer brands catered to the queer community outside of Pride Month. Left to right: Sarah Hallonquist (left) and Loretta Andro Chung, owners of Dyke Beer in Brooklyn. Photo by Eric Medsker; Shift Beer at Hopewell Brewing in Chicago. We refer to it as beer.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

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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VinePair

JUNE 25, 2024

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. A masterpiece had been marred.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

His intimate Los Angeles bar, Alma’s Cider & Beer , which opened in 2021, is a 558-square-foot jewel box bathed in three shades of blue, decorated with quirky dioramas and a chandelier evoking flying saucers. Alma’s Cider & Beer in Los Angeles: Anxo Imperial Cider (left). Craft beer distorts the concept of locality.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

The sports world has seen cyclist Lance Armstrong stripped of seven Tour de France titles, baseball star Alex Rodriguez suspended for 162 games, and an entire nation banned from the 2014 Sochi Olympics due to state-sponsored doping. After all, it’s probably not the best idea to down a few beers before picking up a gun.

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Cheers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The beer industry’s struggles have continued this past year as consumers gravitate to spirits and cocktails and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, more of which seem to hit the market each week. But among the people whose drink of choice is beer, what are the favorite brands today? The leading hard seltzer in the U.S.,

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VinePair

JANUARY 5, 2024

Some may say the best beer in the United States comes from the Northeast, but no one can deny that the Midwest — particularly Wisconsin — is our country’s regional macro beer mecca. Hey, there’s a reason so many Wisconsin beer brands call themselves old: There’s Old Milwaukee , Schoen’s Old Lager, and, of course, Old Style.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 28, 2024

What started as a barware store morphed over the years to include a range of Japanese kitchen goods and teaware, along with a bottle shop stocked with a magnificent range of Japanese beer, sake, shochu, and other spirits. We got our beer and wine license for off sale around 2014.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Not to be confused with Stewart’s Root Beer and restaurant chain, Stewart’s Shops is a regional gas station-convenience store hybrid akin to Wawa or Sheetz, with 350-plus locations across the Adirondacks and surrounding counties. The Best Deal in Beer In 2010, Stewart’s Shops rolled out the original Mountain Brew Beer Ice.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Cadet opened on July 4, 2014. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built. From the get-go, the business model was unusual for Napa. It opened later than other places (6 p.m.)

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

It also happens to be home to some of the beer industry’s heaviest hitters: Molson Coors is rooted in Chicago and Anheuser-Busch famously calls St. The most underrated midwest breweries, according to brewers: Transient Artisan Ales Greenbush Brewing The Livery Wooly Pig Farm Brewery Urban Artifact Brewing Lost Cabin Beer Co.

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Australian Bartender

NOVEMBER 25, 2024

And thus, in 2014, Reàl’s full line of Premium Infused Syrups were born. A few years ago, the only drink options at restaurants were wine or beer, but now venues are offering more cocktails, even non-alcoholic pairings. After the success of their initial flavour in 2006, Coco Reàl, it was clear that there was a need for something more.

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VinePair

JANUARY 13, 2025

Josh is pretty unique in the wine business, says Dan Kleinman, the chief brand officer for Deutsch Family Wine and Spirits, which has owned Josh Cellars since 2014. Consumers at least a sizable cohort of them genuinely like Josh Cellars wines at the prices they willingly pay for them. They will drink across our portfolio.

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VinePair

JUNE 24, 2024

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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VinePair

JULY 29, 2024

Since founding Primitive Beer in Longmont, Colo., As the couple planned to have another child, they weighed their options for continuing production of lambic-style beer. “We Primitive shares New Image’s brewing equipment, stores its barrels inside the building, and hosts a monthly pop-up for bottle sales and serving beer. “I

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 12, 2024

At the end of 2023, Oregon’s Deschutes dropped a handful of new (and re-) releases, including the re-revamped version of its highly prized Dissident sour, tasted here next to a vintage version of the same beer from 2019, the last time it was made from this recipe. Let’s check them out.

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VinePair

AUGUST 26, 2024

In 2019, workers at Anchor organized with the International Longshore and Warehouse Union’s Local 6, citing concerns over cost of living and the corporate owner’s spotty stewardship of the Bay Area’s historic steam-beer brewery. Organizing efforts at Stone’s Richmond plant began less than a month later.

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PubClub

JULY 10, 2024

San Diego’s Mike Hess Brewing has created a special beer for City Tacos to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the popular taco restaurant. We believe the beer will pair well with any of our nearly 20 tacos on the menu.” He started City Tacos in 2014 in North Park. Named the Blessed City Hazy IPA, it is a 7.0%

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PubClub

MAY 2, 2024

These are Alvarado Street Brewery’s 10th anniversary beers. Yet it is also home of award-winning craft beers and Alvarado Street Brewery is celebrating its 10th anniversary in Monterey. Crisp and thirst quenching yet robust in flavor, this beer is a ready refresher for spring and the coming summer.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 16, 2023

The 2023 release, comprised of five of the six recipes, consists of whiskey distilled from 2014-2016, ranging from 7 to 8 years old. The palate kicks off with a sweet mélange of malts: smoked, sherried, chocolaty, and even some that, as advertised, evoke a heavy Belgian beer style. Each offers a distinct flavor profile.

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Drinkhacker

AUGUST 6, 2024

Pickerell’s mentorship seems to have paid high dividends as Woodinville was named “Craft Whiskey of the Year” by the American Distilling Institute in both 2014 and 2015. The midpalate brings a tangy fruitiness, matching the raspberry found on the nose, then an unmistakable root beer experience.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 17, 2024

Brewing , not to mention the feat of creating a new beer style, the beginning of Derek Gallanosa’s brewing journey was something of a pivot. It was a choice that involved sacrifice, and the beer world is better for it. “I Inventing a new style of beer is something every brewer dreams of. In 2017, that path took shape.

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The Whiskey Wash

DECEMBER 7, 2023

The backstory of this project goes back some years, even prior to December, 2014, when Kentucky-based New Riff’s first malt whiskey came off its still. The team there considered at the time what it would be like running a malt whiskey off of their new column beer still.

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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 1, 2024

While some of the labels you’ll see are fictional creations like Heisler Beer , many productions elect to keep a stronger semblance of reality by incorporating products viewers could feasibly purchase for themselves. The beer is first shown in the first film at a gathering after the crew evades a threat in Los Angeles.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 1, 2024

The Organic Brut Gran Reserva 2014 from 10th-generation producer Cava Bolet offers a deep Calvados aroma, ripe apple flavor, and a touch of sherry-like oxidation. A wine like the Juvé & Camps Reserva de la Familia 2018, for example, offers tense acidity and freshness but with an undertone of elegant humidor and wild herbs.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In 2014, they set up shop across the parking lot from The Party Source to establish New Riff Distilling in Newport, Ky., Coincidentally, Brian Sprance had just departed from Boston Beer following half a decade making Sam Adams, and was looking for something new. New Riff’s flagship whiskeys include a bourbon and a rye.

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VinePair

MAY 13, 2024

So far, the only beer company to be bestowed with a royal warrant is Shepherd Neame, Great Britain’s oldest brewer. It was granted permission to use the royal crest on its packaging by Prince Charles in 2014. The company was first awarded a royal warrant in 2007. & Rudd Ltd, a London shop dating all the way back to 1698.

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VinePair

MAY 9, 2024

Melissa Katrincic, a marketing veteran who founded Durham Distillery with her husband, Lee, in 2014, has set a goal of 65 percent growth for the company’s gin lineup this year. The question that I continually ask is, are we craft beer in 1995 to 2001, when there was a correction that happened?” Are we beer now or beer 10 years ago?”

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The Whiskey Wash

AUGUST 18, 2024

This produces a 6-8% ABV ‘wash’, a beer-like drink that is then distilled. While researching for his excellent 2014 book, Whisky: The Manual , Broom was keen to find the perfect pairing for each drink. The peated barley comes from Port Ellen maltings and the water is sourced from Lochan Sholum.

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The Whiskey Wash

JUNE 9, 2024

The Jameson range includes the original blend, double-charred and beer-seasoned cask expressions, alongside flavored whiskies, and even canned cocktails. Regarded as Ireland’s quintessential whiskey blend, Jameson was named as ‘Irish Blend of the Year’ in Jim Murray’s Whisky Bible for both 2013 and 2014, scoring 95 points.

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A Bar Above

MAY 25, 2024

Since 2014, I have had the privilege of working with over 100 different owners and operators to improve their businesses in one capacity or another. Over that time I have had the opportunity to learn some best practices from many operators and have also seen some common issues along the way.

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The Whiskey Wash

MAY 2, 2024

In 2010, we founded the Denver International Beer Competition. In 2014, we started the North American Bourbon and Whiskey Competition. As the CEO of Wine Country Network , I have extensive experience running professional beverage competitions. Our company started producing wine competitions in Colorado nineteen years ago.

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The Whiskey Wash

SEPTEMBER 29, 2024

After filming was completed, Lagavulin approached Offerman to promote the brand; leading the actor to film the ‘My Tales of Whisky’ Lagavulin commercials, a series of 50 adverts since 2014. The Lagavulin Offerman Editions.

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The Whiskey Wash

MARCH 18, 2024

Bardstown Bourbon Company , founded in 2014, is one of the most technologically advanced distilleries in the US. Today, the building houses the Castle & Key bar, offering curated cocktails, craft beers, and charcuterie boards. Credit: Bardstown Bourbon Company. Taylor for guests arriving by rail.

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VinePair

APRIL 22, 2024

In 2014, he published his first book, “ Baijiu: The Essential Guide to Chinese Spirits ,” and later met Bill Isler and Matthias Heger while delivering a talk on the work. The three cocktails featured baijiu stirred up with a variety of beers and ingredients like Chinola Passion Fruit liqueur, parsnip, yuzu, and jujube.

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