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The 10 Weirdest Beer Names of All Time

VinePair

The beer industry has come a long way in the past 20 plus years. Weve seen bourbon barrel-aging work its magic on stouts , the IPA has birthed multiple substyles , and the number of craft breweries in the U.S. Of course, with more breweries comes more beer, and subsequently, more beer names. Other Half Brewing Co.:

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No Longer Just For Macro Lagers, Craft Beer Is Finally Embracing Rice

VinePair

The earliest beers made thousands of years ago were a kind of porridge or beer soup made from cereal grains. So, in collaboration with nearby Intrinsic Brewing , Gutierrez started designing soup-inspired beers. There was a tom kha hazy IPA, based on the Thai coconut soup. I mean, these beers are just interesting.”

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Breweries Are Finding Fertile Partnerships With Gardeners and Plant Collectors

Imbibe Magazine

The striking flowers of woolly bluecurls, an evergreen shrub, lend a mix of candied lavender, mint, and pine to Island Brewing ’s HopLiner IPA. This is a floral beer, so we add flowers to it,” says Draughtsmen Aleworks co-founder Scott Stefan. Botanical gardens are joining forces with breweries on herbaceous beers.

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

Imbibe Magazine

Beer is a reward for exertion, or what fans grip and sip while rooting for home teams and underdogs. Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. People attach themselves to sports the way they’ve attached themselves to beer,” Ashburn says.

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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. Start a brewery, crank out some IPAs , and you, too, could become a millionaire! Their Pale Ale might be the most iconic craft beer ever made; their Celebration IPA one of the most seasonally beloved.

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Light Years: Has Britain Finally Fallen for Low-Calorie Beer?

VinePair

His experience gives him a unique perspective — a perspective that informed the launch last year of a new beer brand, Lean Brew (which, like most of the other low-calorie brands, is contract-brewed). 2020 Vision So who’s buying this new generation of low-cal beers? percent beers,” says McFarland.

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The Spice Is Right: Why Brewers Are Betting Big on Micheladas

VinePair

It was the most labor-intensive beer that we’d made,” Ramey says of the canned Michelada , first released in early 2020. Hard ciders and teas taste like popsicles , double IPAs evoke fruit punch, and Simply and Mountain Dew have spawned boozy spinoffs. We love to think about the Michelada as a blank canvas.”

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