Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 1, 2024

How about a Dilla/Moor’s collab beer?) No pumpkin beer ever? Paul in 2025. Racket asks : “Did THC Beverages Save MN Craft Beer?” one of the state’s oldest craft breweries, is set to open a new taproom outside Columbus this week. ” Maumee Bay Brewing Co. ,

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Their “Year in Beer” recap post made it official: More breweries closed than opened this year, dropping to 9,736 by their count. ” We’ll get more details when they share their Annual Craft Brewing Industry Production Report, which usually hits around April. Plus beer, naturally. No Kaiser Tiger ?

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

Making beer has long been the proving ground for innovative technologies, from the earliest mercury thermometer and first saccharometer through the introduction of the cylindroconical fermenter and on to the modern hop torpedo. If you put 10 beers in front of them and one or two are molecular, they will not be able to pinpoint them.”

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VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2024

People would say, Less calories, less carbs less beer? The American beer aisle is virtually unrecognizable compared to the one Michelob Ultra entered 22 years ago, but the general wisdom still applies. ounce nips, I grasped the use case of NBBs upcoming release slated to hit stores in March 2025 right off the rip. Kimberly A.

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Bar Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

BrewDog to become the Official Beer Partner to Lord’s Cricket Ground from January 2025 In a landmark move for the brand, today, BrewDog is delighted to announce its new partnership with Marylebone Cricket Club (MCC) to be the Official Beer Partner at Lord’s Cricket Ground, in a four-year deal which starts early in the new year.

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VinePair

JUNE 26, 2024

Consequently, this marks the first year in nearly 30 years that the industry saw a slip in spirits, beer, and wine sales. High inventory levels are expected to persist into 2024 and potentially beyond, with normalization now not expected until 2025 or early 2026,” says president of the U.S. Premium Beer or Bust The U.S.

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Cheers

MARCH 18, 2024

Canadian beer continues to resonate with U.S. From emerging craft brands to off-the-wall releases to macro mainstays, products from up north have found a welcome home down south across the border. A number of factors fuel the enduring strength of Canadian beer in America. There’s real heritage and history behind Canadian beer.”

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Cheers

OCTOBER 11, 2024

The National Beer Wholesalers Association (NBWA) wrapped up its 87th Annual Convention and Product Showcase in San Diego on October 1. In 2017, the Independent Beer Distributors Relief Fund was established in Texas following the destruction of Hurricane Harvey. The beer market is still struggling — there’s no denying it.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 23, 2025

Inspired by European beer diversity, its three founders, who were college buddies, launched Harpoon Ale as the first product of Mass. The beer’s success popularized the “Harpoon Brewery” name. Today, the company operates two breweries, three brewpubs, and seasonal beer gardens across Massachusetts and Vermont.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 31, 2025

Tomorrow afternoon, you can sample some great beers from breweries like Gnosis, New Oberpfalz and Blockhead Beerworks and listen to a Johnny Cash tribute band at the Big Barn Beer Fest at County Line Orchard in Hobart, IN. You can get a taste of their barrel-aged beers including the La Lucora that we loved at FoBAB.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 17, 2025

Why do we schedule Beer Weeks when people are already going to breweries? Beer weeks in their current state have been dying for years. Let’s support that , rather than just matching our calendars to the dates where a trade organization decided years ago where to put American Craft Beer Week.

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VinePair

JANUARY 24, 2025

While anyone who understands economic bubbles knows the craft beer industry isnt set up for an impending nosedive, there is a kernel of truth there: Whenever theres tremendous growth in a given industry, at some point, theres going to be a pullback. What weve witnessed over the past few years is craft beer pulling back.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Around the country, craft brewers keep pushing the boundaries to achieve new flavors, developing hitherto unknown ways to pack the most refreshment possible into a single glass. What stands out in 2025? Alexander Gates, beer judge and writer , Honolulu, Hawaii. Cerebral made its mark with hazy IPAs and barrel-aged beers.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

All alcohol-containing beers are taken off the taplist for this monthly event, and bartenders instead serve the brewerys Two Frays Near Beer. The staff also removes wine, cider, and liquor from the taproom, and instead serves alcohol-free wine, cocktails, and other beverages from Open Road , TLC Libations , and Jackworth Ginger Beer.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

As the beer industry continues to evolve to meet the needs of an ever-changing market, it’s important to reflect on the elements of beer that remain consistent. A well-made beer is still delicious. Beer is also fertile ground for spirited debate another tenet thats theoretically as eternal as drinking itself.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 3, 2025

(I got two offering me samples from “Beer Girl” just now.) An email announcing this year’s Hops for Heroes 2025 Campaign, sent by a brewery in Texas, included a mention of a participating beermaker called Great Chicago Fire Brewery. 3,000 drinkers attended the recent Mardi Gras themed Lake County Craft Beer Festival.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Few occupations have as much insight into contemporary beer culture as the people who actually make the stuff. And sometimes, these beers are only temporarily underappreciated, cooling their heels for a minute or two until the tastes of the general public finally catch up to them. I can get this beer at my local gas station in a 19.2-ounce

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VinePair

JANUARY 19, 2025

While we could sing the praises of various craft beers until the cows come home, sometimes nothing hits like a familiar, mass-produced brew. Sure, there are many people who pride themselves on sticking to local options, but macro beers wouldnt be macros if they werent so accessible and widely beloved.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 13, 2025

As we head into 2025, I thought I’d take your pulse real quick, especially as we’ve added hundreds of new subscribers/friends to this group over the last year or so. If we’ve helped you be a better drinker or a more informed member of the beer/beverage industry, please consider adding your support.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 27, 2025

As such, they’ve been added to our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. We saw this just last week with Ten Ninety but we’re also looking into some breweries that may have pivoted away from making their own beer to just selling beer made by others. Looks like they were ready to go a little earlier.

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VinePair

JANUARY 7, 2025

On this episode of the VinePair Podcast, Adam, Joanna, and Zach share some of their predictions for the drinks industry in 2025, including a return to older models of targeted marketing, continued struggles for wine and craft beer, and the potential impact on the entire industry of the expanding use of GLP-1 medications.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 20, 2025

And they’ll still brew beer from there too. In less fun news, we have our first Chicagoland closure of 2025: Longtime Waukegan brewer Ten Ninety has reportedly shuttered. I remember being impressed by their initial focus on imperial-strength beers and making beer and food pairings more user friendly.

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It used to be that once a week there was an exciting one-off beer release that had fans rushing to breweries and stores — and then rushing to social media to post their scores. But then came the pandemic, the rise of seltzer-loving Zoomers, and what seemed to be the end of anyone giving a damn about rare beer releases.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

suncatcherbrewing A post shared by @suncatcherbrewing Per this Block Club story published today, they’re serving straight from the tanks and are focused on low ABV beers made with Midwestern ingredients. Their opening lineup looks delicious. Did I just discover my new favorite brewery? Busy day so far. But there’s more!

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VinePair

JANUARY 2, 2025

The bubble hasnt burst, craft beer isnt dead. The American craft brewing industrys closure rate was an ahistorical monkey on its back, and now its gone. Earlier this week, The New York Times published a report pegged to the opening/closing flip-flop by longtime beer journalist and VinePair contributor Josh M.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

On Tuesday, the Brewers Association (BA) a not-for-profit trade organization dedicated to small and independent American craft brewers announced that Bart Watson will be taking on the role of president and CEO of the organization starting January 6. Admittedly, 2024 has not been the best year for the American craft beer industry.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 24, 2025

The second of two new breweries from longtime Chicagoland beer professionals 1 appears to be getting ready to launch. They’ll be rolling out not one, not two, but six new beers at this shindig. Imperial Oak even has a blue Hurricane-inspired beer available. Bundle up and head to the Beer Temple on Feb. Lineup TBD.

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VinePair

JANUARY 9, 2025

[extremely Baz Luhrmann in Everybodys Free to Wear Sunscreen voice] Ladies and gentlemen of the brewing industry of 2025: Make hop water. I like non-alcoholic beer just fine, but its hard to make and caloric to drink. Is it a more flavorful club soda or a brighter, lighter non-alcoholic craft beer? and retailers alike.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Here are nine drinks trends we hope to never see in 2025. Innovation In Beer and Flavored Malt Beverages (FMBs) From hazy IPAs and bizarre adjuncts to pastry stouts and fruited slushie sours, theres always been innovation in craft beer. But when it comes to clarification, enough is enough.

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PubClub

MARCH 3, 2025

The 2025 date and location is Saturday, March 29 at Pechanga Arena and neighboring Bay City Brewing. The event includes a hockey game with staff members of San Diego craft breweries at 12:30 p.m., the beer-and-BBQ festival from 2- 5 p.m., and the San Diego Gulls game with the Calgary Wranglers at 6 p.m. .

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Bar Magazine

MARCH 14, 2025

All data Westons Cider Report 2025, CGA Strategy OPMS, P12 MAT to 30/11/2024 unless otherwise stated. The 10 th edition of the Westons Cider Report reveals how premium and crafted apple cider is shaping the on-trade landscape. Fast-forward to 2025, and that prediction has become reality. in value to 1.97 of draught cider volume.

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Bar Magazine

JANUARY 16, 2025

The brewer has unveiled Rebel IPA this week and will be giving away thousands of free pints at their bars in Wales Tiny Rebel, Wales largest independent brewery and a trailblazer of innovation in the UKs craft beer scene, has just dropped a new crowning glory Rebel IPA their brand-new Session IPA. And its a game-changer.

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VinePair

MARCH 13, 2025

Savor the flavor on this beer-industry play in three parts and you tell me what you taste: I. The townspeople, demonstrably down with beer and troops, nevertheless take umbrage at the culture-war baggage on offer; they fight, and they lose. right now, but four-figure spite-beer purchase is a whole other level.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The craft beer world is filled with passionate opinions and nowhere more so than among those who wield notebooks and pens. Ask any three beer writers to name the countrys single best brewery, and youre likely to get over a dozen well-argued responses, from the totally obvious to the truly arcane.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 18, 2024

RateBeer , the beer review and rating site that launched in the early 2000s and was acquired by Anheuser-Busch’s ZX Ventures in 2019, announced today that it would be shutting down on February 1, 2025. The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: Okay! Here’s something a little more fun than shutting down websites.

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VinePair

JANUARY 3, 2025

Whatever the case may be, anyone opting to put down the booze for a while is in luck, as the non-alcoholic beer market is absolutely booming right now. According to data from Circana , nationwide dollar sales for NA beer leaped by 29.2 We also consider whether or not the beer was true to its intended style or category.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

The one candidate who impressed me suggested her first order of business if she got the job would be a self-education on the various legal restrictions placed upon beer marketing, he writes in 1997s Beer Blast. Demand for beer, particularly hop-heavy craft beer, has slowed significantly in the past half-decade.

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