Imbibe Magazine

MAY 12, 2024

And aside from a trim list of wine, beer, and classic cocktails, Bar Americano doubles down on drinkers’ rediscovered interest in vermouth , with a selection running more than 50 deep from Spain, France, and Italy. In fact, I haven’t ordered a single drink here that didn’t elicit the exclamation, “Damn, that’s delicious!”

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

Normally, there’s no real good reason to leave Santa Barbara, California, and drive due north on Mission Canyon Road in search of great beer. That day, the 78-acre expanse temporarily transforms into the Beer Garden, a festival that encourages attendees to stroll past California plants—and drink them too.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 19, 2024

After making beer at Marz and Begyle , the new Is/Was space is one of the city’s oldest brewery locations, serving as home base for Metropolitan since 2008 and then for Urban Brew Labs after Metro moved to their riverfront taproom. Both brewery locations are now on our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 10, 2024

I’m assuming that there is a lot of crossover between the people that read these emails and the people that listen to The Beer Temple podcast, but if you didn’t see it, they just released an episode looking back at the time that Tony Magee joined the show just two weeks before announcing the sale of half of the brewery to Heineken.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 8, 2024

Brewbound has some very interesting data on the massive growth Octopi has seen in the last few years, starting with a 441% increase in 2020 alone, with further increases in ‘21 and ‘22. ICBG ED Ray Stout went on WBBM radio to talk about this month’s My Illinois Beer Fridge promotion.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

5000 List of the fastest growing private companies in America for four consecutive years – 2020, 2021, 2022 and 2023, as well as receiving the 2022 Shanken Communications’ Impact Hot Brand Award, the 2023 Growth Brand Awards from Beverage Information Group, and the 2023 PR%F the Magazine Distillery of the Year award.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I snagged the last three 6’ers I was able to find at Binnys and I’ve been working through them this week because it’s lager and you drink beer, you don’t hoard it. Who’s ready for a beer? This week’s Craft Beer & Brewing podcast features a conversation with Tom Beckmann of Goldfinger Brewing.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Yes, for years we delivered preview coverage of the annual BCBS lineup, and in 2021 we were taken off the invite list for those yearly media-invite events, which also happened to be the year we expressed support for the stymied union organization attempts by Goose Island employees in 2020. Let’s see what they’ve got. in Minnesota.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 1, 2024

How about a Dilla/Moor’s collab beer?) No pumpkin beer ever? Former Dark Horse Brewery owner Aaron Morse pleaded guilty “to one count of conducting a criminal enterprise” relating to thousands of dollars in employee benefits that he withheld before he sold the brewery in 2020. Paul in 2025.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 25, 2023

Not to be confused with Stewart’s Root Beer and restaurant chain, Stewart’s Shops is a regional gas station-convenience store hybrid akin to Wawa or Sheetz, with 350-plus locations across the Adirondacks and surrounding counties. The Best Deal in Beer In 2010, Stewart’s Shops rolled out the original Mountain Brew Beer Ice.

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PubClub

JULY 10, 2024

San Diego’s Mike Hess Brewing has created a special beer for City Tacos to commemorate the 10th anniversary of the popular taco restaurant. We believe the beer will pair well with any of our nearly 20 tacos on the menu.” The Mike Hess Blessed City Hazy IPA is brewed exclusively for City Tacos. It’s heavenly, really.

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VinePair

JUNE 24, 2024

The Mexican beer cocktail classically merges a lager with lime juice, hot sauce, and perhaps tomato juice or Clamato , with no two recipes alike. It was the most labor-intensive beer that we’d made,” Ramey says of the canned Michelada , first released in early 2020. “It They are going through a ton of it,” O’Connor says.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When their beer is gone, Waukegan’s Zumbier will be closing after over a decade in business, as announced on Facebook last month. We will remain open until the beer reserves run out,” they said. Everyone wants more beer knowledge in their life, right? The Craft Beer & Brewing podcast is on a real Chicago kick.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As with any exceptional wines and spirits one has over the course of a lifetime, the best beers should linger long after the last sip, lip smack, and smile. 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% Providence, R.I. Greeley, Colo.

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Bar Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Latterly, Nicky has worked as a consultant supporting organisations in all different senior leadership roles spanning from Marketing & Comms to Sales and Board Strategy, in various areas of the drinks trade, from premium mineral water to spirits and craft beer.

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VinePair

AUGUST 21, 2024

In the current era of craft beer, it’s safe to say that drinkers can expect the unexpected. In September 2020, one of Segal’s more out-there strains, then dubbed 24B-05, grabbed the attention of two up-and-coming brewers visiting the farm: Fast Fashion Brewing’s owners Storm and Brian Strumke. Segal told DC Beer.

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VinePair

AUGUST 13, 2024

On Tuesday, global consumer goods company Tilray announced its deal to acquire four craft breweries from Molson Coors Beverage Company. The roster includes Oregon’s Hop Valley Brewing Company, Georgia’s Terrapin Beer Company, Michigan’s Atwater Brewery, and Texas’ Revolver Brewing. 1 craft brewer in the Pacific Northwest, no.

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VinePair

MARCH 12, 2024

Earlier this year, as Keith Wedeking began building a garage at his house in Cedar Falls, Iowa, he resolved to drink a rare beer upon completing the project. Anheuser-Busch released the summer seasonal in 2020, and customers could stroll into a gas station or supermarket and snag a 30-pack for $22 or so.

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A Bar Above

DECEMBER 21, 2023

The “big upgrade” to this list was the addition of non-alcoholic beer like O’Douls. However, as reflected in the 2020 Cocktail Trends Report , the #1 trend is low/no alcohol drinks. The craft mocktail is a rising star due to more mindful drinking and hospitality professionals serving up what their guests want.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Today, we’re bringing you an exclusive first look at this year’s Craft Beer Week pint glass, courtesy of the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild. The biggest story in Midwestern craft beer this week? WGN-TV headed to 18th Street to hang out with Moor’s Brewing Company (where their beers are being made).

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They bonded over their love of beer, lamenting that few mainstream beer brands catered to the queer community outside of Pride Month. Left to right: Sarah Hallonquist (left) and Loretta Andro Chung, owners of Dyke Beer in Brooklyn. Photo by Eric Medsker; Shift Beer at Hopewell Brewing in Chicago. We refer to it as beer.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 26, 2024

His intimate Los Angeles bar, Alma’s Cider & Beer , which opened in 2021, is a 558-square-foot jewel box bathed in three shades of blue, decorated with quirky dioramas and a chandelier evoking flying saucers. Alma’s Cider & Beer in Los Angeles: Anxo Imperial Cider (left). Craft beer distorts the concept of locality.

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 11, 2025

Spirit-free bars and bottle shops are popping up across the United States, and curious consumers can now peruse aisles of zero-proof spirits, wine, beer, and RTDs. Arizona The Nixer (So)Bar (Phoenix) After Brad Bridwell quit drinking in June 2020, he explored the alcohol replacements he found online.

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VinePair

APRIL 9, 2025

With thousands of breweries worldwide, craft beer has become a global sensation. Many of these producers are tucked away in destinations one may consider craft beer meccas. Thats why were sharing the very best destinations for beer travel that venture off the beaten path.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 14, 2025

Berg loved craft beer, the local music scene and Timberwolves basketball, famously helping to make Falling Knife a big destination for Wolves games since opening the brewery in 2019. He was also a part of the Minnesota Craft Brewers Guild Board of Directors. Milwaukee’s beer garden season is underway.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

Is there a beer that says “Valentine’s Day” to you? The other beer that says V-Day for me is any kind of kriek lambic. I polled some of the other Guys and Eric shared one that I didn’t see coming: “My Valentine's Day beer is Catch Hell by Half Acre. Any go-to Valentine’s Day beers?

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2025

Whatever the case may be, anyone opting to put down the booze for a while is in luck, as the non-alcoholic beer market is absolutely booming right now. According to data from Circana , nationwide dollar sales for NA beer leaped by 29.2 We also consider whether or not the beer was true to its intended style or category.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 18, 2024

When brewers visit one of Green Cheek Beer ’s four locations in Southern California, odds are good that Evan Price will discuss hard seltzer. Those hard seltzer brands broke wide as a broadly appealing commodity that looked clearly different, becoming an easy-to-enjoy answer to all that complex craft beer. Nobody cared.”

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VinePair

MARCH 31, 2025

Maytags decision, which required him to leverage much of his inheritance, may have been seen as eccentric in the moment, but a couple of decades proved that he was ahead of his time, anticipating the craft beer movement that sprang up in the 1980s and saw Anchor become a household name.

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VinePair

MARCH 20, 2025

Brewers have released countless beers with strange names over the years, but doing so is a rather low-stakes endeavor. Unfortunately, not all founders are great at marketing, and in the beer industry, its commonplace for business owners to use inside jokes or obscure references as inspiration.

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VinePair

MAY 5, 2025

Craft beer was just on the precipice of booming. An immediate hit both critically and among consumers, a new Winter Blend would follow each holiday season, always aged in a variety of intriguing barrels, whether beer casks (2020), ex-Marsala casks (2021), sherry and Hungarian oak (2022), and ex-Charanda casks (2023).

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 17, 2025

Beer Under Glass gets a new venue this year! On Friday, the Illinois Craft Brewers Guild announced that this year’s Beer Under Glass, the kickoff event for Illinois Craft Beer Week would be held at “the acclaimed Millennium Park Harris Theater Rooftop Terrace in the heart of Downtown Chicago.”

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The craft beer world is filled with passionate opinions and nowhere more so than among those who wield notebooks and pens. Ask any three beer writers to name the countrys single best brewery, and youre likely to get over a dozen well-argued responses, from the totally obvious to the truly arcane.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Around the country, craft brewers keep pushing the boundaries to achieve new flavors, developing hitherto unknown ways to pack the most refreshment possible into a single glass. Aloha will be the first brewery in Hawaii to contract brew and can for other independent local beer brands that have previously only been available on tap.

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VinePair

JANUARY 2, 2025

The bubble hasnt burst, craft beer isnt dead. The American craft brewing industrys closure rate was an ahistorical monkey on its back, and now its gone. Earlier this week, The New York Times published a report pegged to the opening/closing flip-flop by longtime beer journalist and VinePair contributor Josh M.

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VinePair

MARCH 18, 2025

A couple months ago, coffee in hand, I found myself reading about the purported end of Magic Hats flagship beer, the apricot-scented pale ale #9. The brand and its psychedelic aesthetics helped introduce generations of New England beer drinkers to flavorful beer. It seems weird to say now, but I couldnt stand beer back then.

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VinePair

MARCH 20, 2025

The rent has gone up, beer sales have started going down, and across the country, craft breweries have found themselves on the wrong side of the process of gentrification that they once symbolized if not accelerated. But their era is over. This poses a problem even when real-estate costs are fixed. Burlington, Vt., and Boise, Idaho.

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