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Taste Test: Session IPAs

Imbibe Magazine

It’s easy to define session IPAs by what they’re not: hard-hitting hops delivery systems with soaring ABVs. This selection of widely distributed options spans West Coast, hazy, and American IPA styles. percent ABV, this approachable beer from Michigan’s New Holland brewery sits well below mainstream IPAs’ 8 or even 9 percent ABV.

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Brut Busts and Brett Who? The Next Big IPA Sub-Styles That Never Were

VinePair

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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Craft Breweries Are Simplifying to Broaden Interest

Imbibe Magazine

Beer’d Brewing ’s Check Out My Trapper Keeper IPA and Against the Grain’s Citra Ass Down double IPA exist in the same beverage universe. “It Wink-wink weed speak and scents cultivate a fun-loving image and following, but most American drinkers like lager and not pungent IPAs. Last year, SweetWater released the 4.5

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Taste Test: Nonalcoholic Beer

Imbibe Magazine

AL’s Classic Non-Alcoholic Beer Alban de Pury launched AL’s Drinks Company in 2020 when he realized he felt better after he stopped drinking beer. Thoroughly hopped, this pleasantly floral take on an IPA emerges creamy, with hints of pine and a welcome bitterness that never becomes overbearing. (Note: If a beer contains less than 0.5

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Taste Test: Nonalcoholic Beer

Imbibe Magazine

AL’s Classic Non-Alcoholic Beer Alban de Pury launched AL’s Drinks Company in 2020 when he realized he felt better after he stopped drinking beer. Thoroughly hopped, this pleasantly floral take on an IPA emerges creamy, with hints of pine and a welcome bitterness that never becomes overbearing. (Note: If a beer contains less than 0.5

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Niche Sports and Games Are Helping Breweries Score Big

Imbibe Magazine

Customers wear brewery merch and congregate in taprooms, bantering about smash-hit IPAs and others that swung for the fences but fell short. The couple began playing D&D in 2020 while living in Orlando, Florida, and working at Castle Church Brewing. TPK was initially planned for terrible, horrible, no good 2020.

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The One Beer You Should Bring Home From Every State [MAP]

VinePair

That means you’ll spy a lot of IPAs here, but you’ll also find plenty of seasonal stouts, dependable lagers, and eccentric sours, too. Arkansas: Amadeus Vienna Lager From Stone’s Throw Brewing To break up the onslaught of IPAs and stouts to come, we’re tapping this stellar Vienna lager from the folks at Little Rock’s Stone’s Throw Brewing.

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