VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Take, for example, the Russian imperial stout — a beer style synonymous with the ominous jet-black, velvety, and rich brews that break through the double-digit ABV threshold. Along with sours and IPAs , Russian imperial stouts (RIS) have become one of the most coveted styles on the American craft beer market. And Russian?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 28, 2024

In business since 2017, Short Fuse has won GABF awards for their Tropical Hurt Locker and Vocal Jam beers, which helped them earn a Brewery of the Year award (2001-5000 Barrels) in 2021. Nick Teague is the owner and founder of the brewery, who got into craft beer while working in California.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

Since 2008, Costco has also offered a full line of Kirkland Signature beers, initially kicking things off with a pale ale , hefeweizen, amber ale, and German lager — very in vogue styles for that era of craft beer. On Beer Advocate it scores a more-than-respectable 89 out of 100.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 31, 2024

“I think the wild growth in the craft brewing industry, which was a historic thing, led to a classic tragedy of the commons,” he said. “Craft beer is now ordinary.” Remember last week when Craft Beer & Brewing praised beers from a bunch of Chicagoland breweries?

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

The Juice-Force-ification of craft beer continues as Goose Island rolls out stovepipes of a nearly 10%-ABV Big Juicy Beer Hug. I tried the Tropical Beer Hug earlier this week. In a few weeks, Spiteful’s OG offering to the world, GFY Stout, returns for the first time since 2021. It’s … not for me.

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Beer Stout Pilsner Craft Beer 130

VinePair

MARCH 12, 2024

Hoarding is familiar behavior in beverage alcohol, from loading car trunks with Tree House IPAs or stocking cellars with bourbon from W.L. In summer of 2021, Busch Light Apple, a.k.a. The move “greatly expanded the beer’s fandom,” Stowe writes, as well as the disappointment when the beer was scrapped.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

China’s thirst for American craft beer hasn’t yet peaked (unlike Americans’ own) and its drinkers’ interest is piqued. craft brewers (as defined by the BA) shipped some 12,000 barrels of beer to China in 2022, according to data assembled by the trade group. Chinese craft beer imports from the U.S.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s safe to say that the craft beer boom has now reached nearly every corner of the globe. Athens, Greece Credit: Athineo / Constantinos Kollias via Unsplash Beer production in Athens dates back to 3300 B.C. Strange Brew’s flagship, the Jasmine IPA, is a must-try, offering aromatic tropical fruits and relaxing jasmine notes.

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VinePair

MARCH 7, 2024

The strategy was to make everyone as passionate about craft beer as we are,” he adds. And then, in 2021, an open letter from a group of ex-employees called Punks With Purpose highlighted what it called the “rotten culture” at the heart of Brewdog. For many Britons, “craft beer” now means empty rhetoric and unappealing fussiness.

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VinePair

JULY 17, 2024

By 2021, a Reddit thread on this very topic went cold , leaving me to wonder whether hipster beer had finally died or evolved into something else. “I I personally think hipster beer did kind of die with the hipster,” says Kate Bernot, beverage reporter and director of the North American Guild of Beer Writers.

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