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The Cult of Eisbock (and Why Most American Breweries Will Never Be Able to Make It)

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If you were a somewhat rebellious teenager and happened to replace some of your parents’ vodka with water from time to time, you may have discovered that alcohol and water freeze at different temperatures. Usually, the scarcity of a given style comes down to it being overlooked in favor of hazy IPAs, fruited sours, and candy-laden stouts.

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Can You ‘Split the G’? How Gulping Guinness Became an Online Phenomenon

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Beer as Theater If the earliest online videos featuring drinkers attempting to split the G date from around 2021 and 2022, its origins are definitely a bit older, with the first entry for the term showing up on Urban Dictionary in May 2018. If you had vodka and Coke, you wouldn’t take a picture of it,” she says.

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Remember When Campari Made a Raspberry-Flavored Clear Cordial?

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Sure, Guinness is an Irish stout, but it’s really just Guinness — nothing else will suffice. This was around the time the company also decided to start acquiring other brands, sometimes in other categories, like SKYY Vodka. There are few liquids that are essentially alcoholic categories unto themselves.

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The Continued, Misguided Attempts to Make Pizza-Flavored Booze Happen

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Earlier this year, the Providence-based Industrious Spirit Company released Li’l Rhody Pizza Strip , a vodka made from wheat, spices, and pizza strips, a Rhode Island staple. The distillery touted it as “the first ever pizza vodka?” question mark theirs). Really Stupid The press and notoriety for Mamma Mia!

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20 Breweries to Watch in 2025, According to Beer Pros

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Credit: Funkytown Brewery Funkytown Brewery has been making its mark since its founding in 2018. Alongside a recognizable beer portfolio, theyve scaled up their stylish Legendary Lager for the beer-flavored beer folks, and their Sway series of vodka-based RTDs is pulling in the non-beer crowd. Funkytown Brewery Chicago, Ill.

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How Tito’s New Distribution Deal in California Explains Beer Distributors’ ‘Total Beverage’ Power

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Titos Handmade Vodka, the best-selling liquor in the U.S., Triangle Beverage was one of the Constellation wholesalers on the wrong end of the 2018 deal; after losing 3.4 Sales and cultural cachet are surging apace for the iconic Irish stout as drinkers on both sides of the pond split the G. Today, it no longer exists.

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