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Where To Drink in Salt Lake City, Utah

Imbibe Magazine

Water Witch When Water Witch opened in late 2016, the small but lively cocktail bar (“It’s easily the smallest bar in Salt Lake City,” says Neves) signaled a vibe shift on the local drinks scene. Fisher brews more than 100 unique varieties per year, from their flagship pilsner to experimentally hopped IPAs to a classic British mild.

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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

For much of the brewery’s first half decade, Kunz worked first by himself and then with one other person to make and distribute his pilsners and IPAs. Kunz, who was a creative writing major in college, solves for that by focusing on modest, evocative names like Refresh, a light pilsner, and Irresponsible, a well-hopped triple IPA.

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Ask a Brewer: What’s the Difference Between Old World and New World Hops?

VinePair

Given that Old World hops traditionally lend themselves to the ingredient bills of lagers and pilsners while New World hops are more at home in IPAs , the difference between the two camps is more complexly rooted in brewing history, terroir, and flavor profiles. But in this case, boiling it down to the location of origin is a bit reductive.

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Next Wave Awards Brewery of the Year: Bow & Arrow Brewing Co.

VinePair

Credit: Roberto Rosales Before Bow & Arrow’s birth in Albuquerque in 2016, Sheppard had spent the previous decade as an entrepreneurial advisor, specifically in social impact investing in New Mexico. Heirloom blue corn, an ingredient the couple is particularly fond of, is the star component of the brewery’s flagship pilsner , Denim Tux.

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Who Let the Fizz Out? Why Bubble-Free Booze Is on the Rise

VinePair

Drinkers fetishize crisp pilsners topped with foamy poofs, while hard seltzers still bubble across a $3 billion landscape. By 2016, Americans drank more bottled water than soda, hydrating with Poland Spring and flavored waters like Vitaminwater, Propel, and Hint Water. These are interesting days for carbon dioxide.

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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota

VinePair

It’s nothing like brewing a pilsner, where you still have to make it tight. It’s nothing like brewing a pilsner, where you still have to make it tight. The BJCP change dovetailed with increased tensions between Russia and the United States over the 2016 election and Russia’s invasion of Ukraine in 2022.

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Staying Anchored: Why Homage Beers Are Everywhere Right Now

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Cloning Beers Is About ‘Replicating Greatness’ Beer drinkers are awash in choices — fruit juice IPAs, chocolate cake stouts, and classic Czech pilsners available far and wide. In 2016, Denver’s Call to Arms parodied Coors Banquet Beer with Khores Ballroom Beer , which was made with “pure 1000% ice-cold Rocky Mountain spring water.”

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