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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

Sometime in the 2010s, consuming craft beer turned into a personality trait. Acquiring, drinking, and discussing beer in granular detail became an all-consuming hobby. Pelican deemphasizes the easy-drinking, low-alcohol beer’s style parameters. “We The beer was intimate,” he says. “We

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A High-Tech ‘Beer Printer’ From Belgium Wants to Digitize the Drinking Experience

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Is beer really just the sum of its molecular parts, or is there an intangible aspect that can’t be emulated by a machine? The device was inspired, Standaert says, by a 2018 book by Kevin Verstrepen, a professor of genetics and genomics at Leuven University. What’s really a game changer is you can adjust the alcohol level from 0 to 8.5

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

Imbibe Magazine

Integrating activities creates “a healthier approach to alcohol.” In 2018, former Marine Sergio Manancero, the son of Uruguayan immigrants, opened La Doña Cervecería in Minneapolis, with a three-on-three soccer field installed outside. People now play sports “pretty much from sunup to sundown,” Ashburn says.

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The Evolution of the IPA, from 19th Century England to Now

VinePair

The beer may not be as “hazy” as more modern examples of New England IPAs, but it ran so the rest of the category could fly. Building on the recipe for Pliny the Elder, Cilurzo beefed up the hop profile and alcohol content to brew Pliny the Younger. The substyle is the brainchild of Gold Dot Beer co-owner Kevin Davey.

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We Asked 22 Brewers: What’s the Best New Beer of 2023?

VinePair

It’s a gorgeous and artfully crafted beer, and it’s a lot of fun to drink.” North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4% In general, I gravitated toward balanced and lower-alcohol, yet flavor-forward, beers. Suarez Family Brewery Be It Known 5.3% ” —Lee Lord, head brewer at Narragansett Brewing Co.,

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China Isn’t the Answer for U.S. Craft Brewers’ Woes, but It Could Be Part of It

VinePair

China’s thirst for American craft beer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. With American demand posting small but concerning year-over-year declines as omnibibulous domestic drinkers quench their boredom with all manner of alcoholic and non-alcoholic beverages, the idea that U.S.

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How the Brits Got Bored of Brewdog

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The strategy was to make everyone as passionate about craft beer as we are,” he adds. Unhappy Insiders Manifest’s working relationship with Brewdog ended in 2019 amid a row over an alcohol-free beer , but Myers insists there are no hard feelings. The same is not necessarily true in Britain’s craft-brewing world.