VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

In January, brewery president and cofounder Dave Thibodeau hit the slopes with a Ska snowboard that outlived its advertised beer: Moral Panic, a bone-dry brut IPA that debuted in 2018 and disappeared in late 2021. A fizzy, fragrant, Champagne-inspired IPA couldn’t hack it in a world gone hazy.

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IPA Beer Bitters Alcohol 119

Cheers

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Uncasville, CT-based casino Mohegan Sun held its 20th Sun Wine & Food Fest from Jan. The annual food and wine festival included more than 15 events combining culinary artistry, unique and premium wine and spirit selections and celebrity chef demonstrations. Here’s a quick look at some of the festivities we attended.

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Wine Vodka Beer IPA 103

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. Still 6.4%

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IPA Beer Bottling Wine 100

VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. These days, the hordes still come flocking to Russian River Brewing during a two-week window every Spring to pick up a few bottles of the famous, crisp, and clean Triple IPA. One fine example is Market Rate, an American wild ale aged in wine barrels with strawberries. But beer tourism?

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Beer Stout IPA Live Music 126

VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

My own interest in the current state of Sino-American IPA relations was piqued by a recent report from the market-research firm IWSR, which noted that after the past few years of pandemic-related challenges, Chinese drinkers were returning to premium-price-point beers. “In I’ve been in China and found two-year-old IPAs sitting on the shelf.”

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Craft Beer IPA Beer Stout 98

VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Consequently, this marks the first year in nearly 30 years that the industry saw a slip in spirits, beer, and wine sales. According to the IWSR, inventory levels skyrocketed between December 2019 and December 2023 due to a jump in consumer demand during the height of the pandemic, and then further bolstered by supply chain disruptions.

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Alcohol Inventory Beer Wine 98

VinePair

JUNE 4, 2024

percent ABV Funny Water , carving a new niche in non-carbonated alcoholic drinks that, unlike wine or most cocktails, aren’t too strong. In 2019, a trio of University of New Hampshire graduates founded one of the first bubble-free booze companies, NOCA — a portmanteau of non-carbonated — as a counterpoint to then-ascendant hard seltzers.

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Vodka Alcohol Beer IPA 111