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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.

IPA 119
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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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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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Fertilized by Opportunity and Innovation, Cider Is Expanding Its Appeal

Imbibe Magazine

A person-by-person palate shift helps Alma’s cultivate a customer base crossing over from sour ales or natural wines. La Familia underlines the connection between its ciders and culinary Mexico at its Salem cider house that opened in 2020 and shares space with Azuls Taco House. Imperial ciders would slot nicely next to juicy IPAs.

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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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Breweries Are Turning Up the Heat on Winter Beer

Imbibe Magazine

They invited customers to gather around crackling flames with strong imperial stouts, barley wines, and plum-flavored winter warmers set to be transformed by the centuries-old German tradition of bierstacheln , or beer spiking. Poking lighter beers like pilsners or IPAs can negatively amplify hop bitterness.)

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