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Ask a Beer Pro: How Do I Know if My Beer Was Poured From a Dirty Draft Line?

VinePair

One of life’s simplest pleasures is heading out to a bar on a crisp fall Saturday to enjoy a cold beer on draft. While it might be tempting to blame the pint on a bad batch, the likely cause for your less-than-satisfying beer is the draft line it was poured from, not the draft itself. Dead giveaway.”

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Drink of the Week: Donna’s Pickle Beer

Imbibe Magazine

But when I first encountered Donna’s Pickle Beer at Gilly’s House of Cocktails in San Diego , I was intrigued. Pickle-infused beer has been around for decades. Then I found myself sipping the beer on its own. I don’t like pickles, or anything briny and vinegary. But the Imbibe 75 Place to Watch uses this 4.4%

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Miller High Life: The Big, Corporate Beer That Won the Industry’s Heart

VinePair

At a craft beer bar in Brooklyn called Queue Beer , all of the 24 taps feature premium and hard-to-find beers but one tap faucet stands apart from the rest. Rarely seen even in top beer bars, it requires a special technique to properly operate, allowing for more nuanced control of beer flow than the standard on-off tap faucet.

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The 10 Weirdest Beer Names of All Time

VinePair

The beer industry has come a long way in the past 20 plus years. Of course, with more breweries comes more beer, and subsequently, more beer names. Naming beer is an integral part of any brewerys marketing. Regardless of whether or not this tactic works, weve encountered some delightfully bizarre beer names along the way.

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Taste Test: Rice Beer

Imbibe Magazine

There’s no denying the supreme drinkability of a cold, crisp rice beer, as industry stalwarts like macro Japanese breweries Sapporo and Asahi demonstrate. But smaller craft brewers are increasingly tinkering with the style, recognizing the mass appeal of a clean, crushable beer while still experimenting with their own interpretations.

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Taste Test: Nonalcoholic Beer

Imbibe Magazine

It wasn’t long ago when nonalcoholic beer options in the U.S. In fact, the fast-growing category of nonalcoholic beer now includes NA alternatives in most beer styles. Note: If a beer contains less than 0.5 left much to be desired. Fortunately, U.S. Here are some excellent low-proof brews hailing from around the globe.

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Drink of the Week: Hopworks “Earth to Beer” West Coast IPA

Imbibe Magazine

If there is any place better to enjoy a crisp, refreshing beer than out in nature, I haven’t been there. And that is, fittingly, how I plan to enjoy my four-pack of Hopworks ‘ new Organic West Coast IPA brewed for the Earth to Beer campaign. For Earth Day, or any day, go drink some beer outside.

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