The Who’s Who of Beer Cool
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APRIL 4, 2024
The best craft beer breweries in 2024, from a minimalist operation serving lagers to the brewers making IPAs that spotlight regional flavors.
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The Highest-Rated IPA in Every State (2024) [MAP]
VinePair
OCTOBER 17, 2024
Brewed in numerous substyles, the category has won over beer lovers with its hop-forward profile and tropical fruit flavors. And while the sheer number of bitter brews on the market right now might be an annoyance to some , the IPA isn’t likely to fall out of favor any time soon. Curious to see if your favorite IPA made the cut?
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This Week's Beer News: Weed Edition + ICBW Pint Glass Preview
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. Only breweries can pre-order at this point; the rest of us will have to just get ready to grab one of these glasses from participating breweries once Beer Week kicks off in mid-May.
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5 to Try: Kölsch-Style Ales
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2024
Where bitter IPAs and rich imperial stouts polarized beer drinkers, an approachable style of ale that originated in Cologne, Germany, is finding fans in beer enthusiasts and casual imbibers alike. We hear a lot of people say, ‘I don’t really drink beer, but I drink KSA,’” says Fort Point chief brand officer Dina Dobkin.
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The Highest-Rated Beer in Every State (2024) [MAP]
VinePair
OCTOBER 10, 2024
2023 was a tough year for the American brewing industry, with overall beer production and imports down 5 percent year-over-year. But despite the doom and gloom surrounding the future of beer, Americans are still drinking their fair share of the stuff. According to beer shipment data and U.S. billion gallons of beer per year.
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Review: 6 Firestone Walker IPAs, 2024 Releases
Drinkhacker
MARCH 3, 2024
Firestone Walker never met a beer style it didn’t like, and while it is constantly churning out sours, barrel-aged expressions , iconic lagers , and more, it’s the IPAs that Firestone really seems to gravitate to. Lately, the brand has dropped three different mixed-IPA cases, all featuring something new and something old.
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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024
VinePair
MAY 5, 2024
This may sound like a backhanded compliment, but while craft beer sales continue to slow, the situation isn’t nearly as grim as it was this time last year. 28, 2024, U.S. craft beer sales totalled $4.7 Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craft beer brands going into 2024.
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These Are the Winning Beers from the 2024 Great American Beer Festival
VinePair
OCTOBER 15, 2024
On Saturday, the Brewers Association (BA) announced the winners of the 2024 Great American Beer Festival. as the country’s largest professional beer competition. Approximately 9,200 beers and ciders were submitted from across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Yakima, Wash. Rancho Cordova, Calif.
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We Asked 12 Brewers: What’s the Next Big Beer Style? (2024)
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The beer business is constantly evolving. It long ago departed from European styles to the great American lager, and then again straight into the craft beer era. And after the initial boom of West Coast IPA, the cloudy New England style came along to dominate the scene. But these days, the beer consumer has a more varied palate.
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We Asked 15 Brewers: What’s the Most Overrated Beer Style? (2024)
VinePair
JANUARY 23, 2024
Among them are some of the more hype-y styles shaking up the industry since the craft beer boom. Some people scoff at these popular beers, while others line up to snag the first tastes of them. The beer industry had a difficult year in 2023, and perhaps some of its stalwarts are beginning to feel a bit stale.
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BREAKING: Lagunitas Chicago Production Facility to Shutter
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MAY 23, 2024
According to reporting from Beer Business Daily as well as posts and stories across social media, Lagunitas announced plans today to close their massive Chicago production facility and taproom space on the city’s southwest side. This Week's Beer News from GuysDrinkingBeer.com is a reader-supported publication.
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The First New Beer Labels of 2024
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JANUARY 3, 2024
We’re back in a big way this week with: An awesome new FFF label (plus we pulled the total # of 450 North beer labels released last year) A label we thought was a Letterkenny reference A very light pairing of Missouri labels A brewery not named Fat Head’s that seems to think they can release an IPA called Head Hunter And more!
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What’s Driving U.S. Beer Sales in 2024?
Cheers
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Beer sales have been less than desirable as of late, to put it mildly. beer industry’s volume consumption decreased 4.4% gallon cases, according to the Beverage Information Group’s 2024 Industry Overview. Customers go and try these poorly constructed beers that are very expensive, and so they think they’re wasting their money.
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Review: 10 Barrel Brewing Beers and Cocktails, 2024 Releases
Drinkhacker
OCTOBER 5, 2024
Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing doesn’t just make beer. 10 Barrel Brewing Apocalypse IPA – A burst indeed of Bravo, Northern Brewer, Chinook, Cascade, Centennial, and Amarillo hops informs this lively year-round expression of IPA. It’s a “west coast” expression of IPA partly in name only.
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The One Beer You Should Bring Home From Every State [MAP]
VinePair
JUNE 9, 2024
The same mantra applies to local beers. That’s why we compiled a list of the beers you should take home with you from every state. 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.
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Fertilized by Opportunity and Innovation, Cider Is Expanding Its Appeal
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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10 Things You Should Know About La Chouffe and the Iconic Belgian Brewery Behind It
VinePair
JANUARY 21, 2025
In 1982, brothers-in-law Pierre Gobron and Chris Bauweraerts brewed their first batch of beer in a cowshed. Now, Brasserie dAchouffe is one of the most recognizable names in Belgian beer, boasting a portfolio of seven iconic brews and one non-alc option that are distributed all over the world.
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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts
VinePair
AUGUST 14, 2024
craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. If craft breweries were once started by people with a pure passion for drinking “better beer,” eventually they started to be seen as easy money by entrepreneurial types. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):
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This Week's Beer News: Something Old (Style), Something New
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 1, 2024
With the long holiday weekend coming up, if you’re in the area, I’d invite you to take a spin through our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map and find someplace new to visit for a beer. Try something different at your local beer bar or neighborhood taproom. Axios Indianapolis praised Triton’s Rail Splitter IPA.
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This Week's Chicago-Centric Craft Beer Events & Socials: Live from the West Coast
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
APRIL 26, 2024
The World Beer Cup awards were announced Wednesday night and I’m always thrilled when the most competitive award goes to a Midwestern brewery — even more so when it’s one of my favorites in Chicago. Old Irving Brewery’s Beezer beat out 325 other beers to earn the Gold Medal for Juicy/Hazy IPA.
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This Week's Beer News: WGOINWI?
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 8, 2024
With 2024 already seeing the closures of Windmill Brewing in Dyer, Four Fathers in Valparaiso and Malt Bros. John, we thought we’d take a few minutes to poke around on the status of a few things in Northwest Indiana’s once-thriving craft beer scene. What’s going on in Northwest Indiana?
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The 19 Best New Breweries of the Year, According to Beer Pros
VinePair
DECEMBER 27, 2023
If you compiled all of the headlines covering craft beer over the past 12 months and gave your summation on the state of the industry, you might grumble something about a Bob Dylan song in between sips of your Flavortown spiked fruit punch. If you want great beer and good vibes, look no further: GOAL. What did I enjoy the most?
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We Asked 11 Brewers: What’s the Most Underrated Beer? (2024)
VinePair
FEBRUARY 13, 2024
Beer styles are no exception, and brewers are the best in the business when it comes to lifting up under-the-radar brews. These styles aren’t often in regular rotation, but they’ve struck a chord with the people who know beer the best. Dark beers don’t get enough love. Weise, brewer, Talea Beer Co.
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This Week's Beer News + OG Pumpkin Ale Profiling
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
SEPTEMBER 30, 2024
You never know where you’re going to find beer news. I search through a lot of sources to build this email every week, but over the weekend I read something surprisingly well-reported about beer history and it came from a business-focused website. Shaw Local Media celebrated Penrose Brewing for winning six medals at the 2024 U.S.
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GSN Review: Eden’s Harvest Chaga Mushroom Beer
Good Spirits News
FEBRUARY 26, 2024
recently announced the release of the first 2 offerings in its line of functional mushroom craft beers, a Six-mushroom IPA (8.8% What makes Eden’s Harvest’s beers so good, starts with the source of these mighty fungi,” said Tulsy Ball, Chief Chaga Officer of Eden’s Harvest. Six-mushroom IPA (8.8% Eden’s Harvest, Inc.
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This Week's Sweltering Beer Events & Socials
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JUNE 21, 2024
Really cold beer. Here are a bunch of upcoming… This Weekend: All weekend long, you can head to Goldfinger Brewing Company for their “Community Weekend” which means $6 beers today through Sunday. One Lake Brewing collaborated with Dive Bar Soap Company to make “beer soap” out of a mild ale and a lager.
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This Week's Chicago-Centric Craft Beer Events & Socials: A Closure and an (Imminent?) Opening
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
APRIL 19, 2024
If you enjoyed their beers, good news — they already have plans to keep popping up around town. From their announcement: “This isn’t the end - it’s a transition…We will continue to harness the kindness and power of the Chicago beer community and to share our visions of beer and brewing. Yes please.
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This Week's Chicago-ish Craft Beer Events & Socials
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 8, 2024
This year’s Pink Boots Society beer releases today at Dovetail and both Miskatonic spaces. The women of Half Acre and Reyes also brewed their own beer using the Pink Boots hop blend, called BREAK THE GLASS , which is available now, as is UnstHOPable , the Pink Boots collaboration from Alter Brewing. Language is fun!
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Survey: Tequila Sales Keep Ticking Up in 2024
Cheers
APRIL 9, 2024
The consumer obsession with agave spirits may be starting to level off slightly, but for our most recent study, conducted in January 2024, tequila is the category most impacting the business, both on- and off-premise. Whiskey is the next most impactful category, though it’s tied with craft beer among on-premise respondents.
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This Week's Beer News: The Countdown to Salt Shed
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
FEBRUARY 5, 2024
The day after that, Anheuser-Busch announced that they’d be shuttering Miami’s Wynwood Brewing , with some of their beers moving to Veza Sur , a brand created by A-B in 2017. Interestingly, Veza Sur was originally positioned as a collaborative project between Colombia’s Bogota Beer Co. Also want a beer?
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This Week's Pre-Paddy's Day Craft Beer Events & Socials
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 15, 2024
So if you see me out and about with a green beer in my hand, no you didn’t. But I might pop up at a beer bar or a brewery or two around the north side over the next 48 hours or so. Here’s something unique: Tomorrow night, Whiner Beer is hosting a St. Lucky Dorr returns for a new season of beer drinking on March 23.
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Block Club Found Tony Magee! (and this Week's Beer Events & Socials)
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MAY 31, 2024
You’re receiving this email a little early today, because I’m heading into town for a show at the Salt Shed this evening, which means I’ll likely be drinking some Salt Shed Goose Island beers slightly before showtime. “Craft beer is now ordinary.” Keep an eye on IG for updates on anything worth discussing.
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Staying Anchored: Why Homage Beers Are Everywhere Right Now
VinePair
DECEMBER 20, 2023
Days before Thanksgiving, Cloudburst announced its nostalgic winter warmer with a self-deprecating Instagram post (it’s a “beer you can drink one can of [and] leave a second can in the back of your fridge”) that became a potent sales pitch. Drinkers regularly bypass enduring brands for the latest-model IPA. Have some dry-hopped flings!
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This Week's Mountain-Hiking, Hemp-Beverage-Drinking, WTTW-and-FOX-Chicago-Contributing Beer Events & Socials
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MAY 24, 2024
First up, a little pre-holiday-weekend admin: Due to the Memorial Day holiday, we will not be publishing a beer news email on Monday , but we will be hoping you can enjoy a little time off, presumably with a beer or three. Let’s get things wrapped up early and get outta here. It’s got its own URL! Oh, there’s more?
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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota
VinePair
MARCH 28, 2024
The locals pride themselves on surviving through it, but the 2024 season has not measured up to the apocalyptic standard. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. In 2001, the resultant beer, Czar Jack, was born.
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This Week's Groundhog-Free Chicagoland Beer Events & Socials
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
FEBRUARY 2, 2024
We’ll also talk more next week about the USAToday Readers Choice 10Best beer-related award voting going on, but while we’re here, both Funkytown Brewing and Turner Haus Brewing were also nominated this week as one of the Best New Breweries in America — so that’s pretty cool. Y’all are the best.
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We Asked 10 Brewers: What’s the Most Underrated West Coast Brewery? (2024)
VinePair
AUGUST 6, 2024
When it comes to beers, the West Coast might be the best coast. It’s an argument backed by a long history and some big accolades: Breweries from California, Oregon, and Washington snagged 110 out of the 297 medals awarded to specific breweries at the 2023 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) , or 37 percent of the event’s total haul.
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Christmas Tree Bonfires Are Coming to a Brewery Near You
VinePair
DECEMBER 26, 2024
On New Years Eve, customers can bring back used trees, stripped of tinsel, lights and ornaments, and receive an Indian Ladder beer or cider in return. which hosted its inaugural Yule Light Up the Night Christmas tree bonfire in January 2024. Ipswich Ale Brewery typically serves beer from its mobile tapmobile.
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Whiskey Drinks We Love For 2024
Cheers
SEPTEMBER 11, 2024
Print Game Time Shandy Course Drinks Keyword bourbon, grapefruit, honey syrup, IPA Ingredients 1 oz. Honey syrup IPA of choice Instructions Shake bourbon, juice and honey with ice for 5-10 seconds. Strain into beer mug over ice and top with cold IPA. Bourbon 1 oz.
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10 Drinks Trends to Look Out for in 2024
VinePair
DECEMBER 12, 2023
So what could possibly change in 2024? Here are 10 drinks trends to look out for in 2024. But in 2024, expect to see a lot more wines eschewing color-categorization altogether. has a whole lineup of nitro beers and just launched a nitro Belgian Wit. Will the seemingly unstoppable rise of tequila come to a screeching halt?
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Review: Dogfish Head Nordic Spring
Drinkhacker
MARCH 30, 2024
The inaugural entry in Dogfish Head ‘s 2024 Off-Centered Art Series, this is actually a rerelease of a beer that first debuted in 2022. Snazzed up in Moominian garb by Atlanta screen printers Methane Studios, this hazy IPA is brewed with Norwegian Kveik yeast, wild juniper berries, orange peel, and Danko rye malt.
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Three New Breweries in Two Weeks! (Plus Events & Socials)
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
DECEMBER 1, 2023
Now open in Woodstock : MobCraft Beer Woodstock! But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. “ Until this new hazy IPA from Lil’Why came out, at least.
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San Diego Beer Week Sets November Dates For 2024 Celebration
PubClub
SEPTEMBER 19, 2024
Local ladies enjoy a San Diego craft beer during the The Capital of Craft Beerfest. Photo: San Diego Brewers Guild San Diego’s annual celebration of its craft beers and breweries is set for 2024. Beer Week begins with a virtual kick-off toast at all Brewers Guild member locations on Friday, November 1 at 7:30 p.m.
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San Diego Beer Week 2024 Dates, Events & Capital of Craft Beerfest Details
PubClub
OCTOBER 21, 2024
Beefest is the highlight of the Brewer’s Guild’s annual San Diego Beer Week. San Diego Beer Week is a celebration of the 150 independent craft breweries in a city known as the “Capitol of Craft.” ” The 2024 event dates are Nov. Ten may not equal seven, but Beer Week is a perfect ten.”
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