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The Highest-Rated Beer in Every State (2024) [MAP]

VinePair

In what will likely come as no surprise, IPAs — the most popular craft beer style — claim the top spot in 21 states. Stouts aren’t far behind, though, with 19 states claiming the style as their highest-rated brew. Stout – American Imperial | 9.20% Arkansas BDCS Ozark Beer Co.

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These Are the Winning Beers from the 2024 Great American Beer Festival

VinePair

On Saturday, the Brewers Association (BA) announced the winners of the 2024 Great American Beer Festival. The Great American Beer Festival continues its commitment to recognizing exceptional beverages from across the country in the 2024 competition,” Chris Williams, competition director for the BA, said in the release. Yakima, Wash.

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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota

VinePair

The locals pride themselves on surviving through it, but the 2024 season has not measured up to the apocalyptic standard. Through the snowless 60-degree days, however, one boreal harbinger has remained intact: the Russian imperial stout. Winter here is supposed to be a bleak, frigid epoch. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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5 to Try: Kölsch-Style Ales

Imbibe Magazine

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. Having a low-alcohol beer as your flagship is definitely more desirable [than a double IPA],” says co-owner Jeff Huss.

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We Asked 15 Brewers: What’s the Most Overrated Beer Style? (2024)

VinePair

From hazy IPAs to pastry stouts to smoothies lactosed within an inch of their lives, here are the ones the pros believe have been given more credit than they’re due. Although I think there are a lot of overrated hazy IPAs around the world, I respect this style because it’s an ‘entrance door’ for a lot of non-craft beer drinkers.

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The First New Beer Labels of 2024

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

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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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024

VinePair

28, 2024, U.S. Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craft beer brands going into 2024. Among the coveted list-makers are several breweries from Colorado, California, and Michigan, showing that despite the prolonged hazy IPA craze of New England, the western pockets of the U.S.