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Was June 2014 Chicago's Craft Beer High Water Mark? (+Events & Socials)

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

The amount of 10th anniversary events emerging over the last few weeks have made me wonder: Was May-June 2014 the busiest time in Chicago craft beer history? The Lagunitas Chicago taproom (RIP) opened in June 2014 with the Governor in attendance. Smylie Brothers opened their brewpub in Evanston in June 2014 as well (RIP).

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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

For pretty much the last two decades, the IPA has been the No. 1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. There have been black IPAs , white IPAs , red IPAs , cold IPAs , session IPAs , brut IPAs , even glitter IPAs. directive on the upper rim still hits like few others.

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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

Craft brewing is known for maximal flavors and naming conventions—sometimes quirky, sometimes cringe. Beer’d Brewing ’s Check Out My Trapper Keeper IPA and Against the Grain’s Citra Ass Down double IPA exist in the same beverage universe. “It Sometime in the 2010s, consuming craft beer turned into a personality trait.

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Breweries Are Finding Fertile Partnerships With Gardeners and Plant Collectors

Imbibe Magazine

The striking flowers of woolly bluecurls, an evergreen shrub, lend a mix of candied lavender, mint, and pine to Island Brewing ’s HopLiner IPA. This is a floral beer, so we add flowers to it,” says Draughtsmen Aleworks co-founder Scott Stefan. Botanical gardens are joining forces with breweries on herbaceous beers.

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Fertilized by Opportunity and Innovation, Cider Is Expanding Its Appeal

Imbibe Magazine

Craft beer distorts the concept of locality. Soham Bhatt and Jake Mazar founded Artifact Cider Project , now in Florence, Massachusetts, in 2014 to support Northeast orchards and elevate varieties like the McIntosh, a staple supermarket apple. ounce cans of strong beers and cocktail-inspired flavored malt beverages fill coolers.

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This Week's Beer Events & Socials: Keeping Keeping Together Together

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

The kind and supportive comments from her many Chicago-based brewery friends on that post hopefully helped soften the blow of that dispatch, and within 24 hours (as of yesterday afternoon) Averie followed up to add that Burial Beer had started a GoFundMe for Keeping Together, which is linked if you want to help lend a hand. Like craft beer?

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Better Together: Why Craft Breweries Are Sharing Taprooms and Brewing Systems

VinePair

As demand for craft beer spiked throughout the 2010s, breweries expanded to slake drinkers’ seemingly endless thirst for IPAs. “We We all just ramped up production and bought tanks,” says Kieran Farrell, an owner and director of operations of Gun Hill Brewing , which opened in New York City in 2014. “In Hop waters ! —