Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 31, 2025

The beer “is slightly sweeter and more full-bodied than German pilsners and with a slightly lower hopping rate” and has an awesome name. February 9th is Hopleaf’s twelfth-annual Super Stout Sunday. Stout Week returns to Side Project on the 11th with “Vanilla Day” and carries through to the 16th.

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Beer Stout Craft Beer Pilsner 246

VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

Beer professionals on either side of the bar carefully follow whos doing what and have strong opinions about which beer makers you should keep an eye on going forward. What stands out in 2025? Alexander Gates, beer judge and writer , Honolulu, Hawaii. Their reasons are various. Cerebral Brewing Denver, Colo.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Stout 119

VinePair

FEBRUARY 13, 2025

With that in mind, we asked 16 beer professionals to name their most overrated beer styles for 2025. Most NA beers on the market are poor representatives of craft beer. Hazy IPA is one of two most overrated beer styles in my opinion (the second being fruited blonde ales). Asheville, N.C.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Stout 116

Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 3, 2025

Modern brewing boomed in the 2010s by extending beer to extremes. Excess equaled excellence in IPAs and imperial stouts, and customers craved more, more, more. Back then, brewing giants developed NA lagers that mimicked mainstream beers with middling flavor. Because nonalcoholic beer doesnt have alcohol, it can freeze.

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Beer IPA Stout Alcohol 190

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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Beer Craft Beer Stout Pub 130

VinePair

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Shawn Cooper, co-founder, Halfway Crooks Beer , Atlanta In an era where dark beers are dominated by gigantic, sweet pastry stouts , it can be hard to find dark beers outside of that realm especially when you delve into the world of dark lagers, where many brewers simply don’t tread.

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Beer IPA Bitters Craft Beer 116

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 20, 2025

In less fun news, we have our first Chicagoland closure of 2025: Longtime Waukegan brewer Ten Ninety has reportedly shuttered. Tis the season for paczki stout news, starting with this story about the return of Griffin Claw’s version. Northern Express highlighted this cacao and coconut imperial stout from Elder Piper.

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Beer Stout Craft Beer Pub 130

VinePair

MARCH 19, 2025

One of the major takeaways from craft beers enduring haze craze is that many drinkers are creatures of habit. Theres nothing inherently wrong with that, but theres a lot of opportunity for discovery in the beer space, and many incredible styles go largely ignored in the thickets of hazy IPAs , stouts , and macro lagers.

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Beer Stout IPA Pub 70

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 27, 2025

As such, they’ve been added to our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. MLive’s headline implies that a chocolate glazed donut stout is too weird to believe, but Griffin Claw teamed up with Dutch Girl Donuts to make just that. Market Garden Brewery announced a few new beers and a taproom revamp for 2025.

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Beer Stout IPA Craft Beer 130

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 24, 2025

Goldfinger’s Dark Lager Day 2025 is set for February 8. Madison’s Working Draft is hosting a Swedish beer celebration on the 8th. February 9th is Hopleaf’s twelfth-annual Super Stout Sunday. On February 15, the newly created American Craft Beer Hall of Fame will announce their inaugural inductees.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Finally, I’m sure you’re seeing it all over your social feeds right now, but we’ll have info on the midwestern entries to the just-released Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer 2024 lists on Monday. Busy day so far. But there’s more! Later This Month (and Beyond): Got plans on Monday?

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Beer Pub Stout Craft Beer 130

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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Highball Beer Craft Beer Wine 96

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. August Schell Brewing Co.

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Beer IPA Pilsner Craft Beer 136