Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 10, 2024

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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VinePair

OCTOBER 30, 2024

To attract a broader audience of IPA drinkers, Great Lakes leaned into its geography to create a balanced, subtly sweet, not-too-bitter Midwestern IPA. As craft beer boomed, location had scant bearing on a brewery producing directional IPAs, reducing geographic callouts to shorthand for aroma and flavor. Its motto: All for Ohio.

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VinePair

JUNE 25, 2024

1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. In that time, we’ve seen the beer industry go from malty English IPAs to dank West Coast options — teeth-chatteringly bitter double and then triple and even quadruple IPAs — to softer, fruitier, and hazier New England-style options. What can I say, it was a different time.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

Carpano Antica 3 dashes of Angostura Bitters Preparation Shake and strain all ingredients into coupe glass. Carpano Antica 3 dashes of Angostura Bitters Preparation Mix all ingredients and pour into rocks glass. Lime Juice Ginger Beer, to top Preparation Shake and strain all ingredients, except ginger beer, into serving cup.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Lime Juice 3 Dashes Scrappy's Celery Bitters Preparation Combine liquid ingredients in a shaker with ice. A & W Root Beer Preparation Combine the first three ingredients in a shaker with ice. Top with root beer and garnish with Little Debbie Nutty Buddy Bar and 3 star anises. SMOKE LAB Classic Vodka 1 ½ oz.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 30, 2024

Lil’ Heaven Crushable IPA It can be hard to deliver the hoppy bitterness of a traditional West Coast IPA in a lower-ABV package, but this offering from Connecticut-based Two Roads does just that. percent ABV, this approachable beer from Michigan’s New Holland brewery sits well below mainstream IPAs’ 8 or even 9 percent ABV.

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Chilled Magazine

AUGUST 14, 2024

Fresh Lime Juice 1 dash Grapefruit Bitters 3 oz. Ginger Beer Preparation Add all ingredients except ginger beer to highball glass. Fill glass with ice and top with ginger beer. Espresso Liqueur 1 dash Xocolatl Mole Bitters.5 Liqueur , Tequila Sun Salud Ingredients 1.5 Casa Azul Blanco.5 Grapefruit Liqueur.75

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2024

Fresh Lime Juice 2 oz Ginger Beer Blood Orange Amarena Cherries Preparation Combine BACARDÍ Superior Rum, lime juice, syrups in a shaker tin with ice and shake vigorously. Strain into Collins glass over fresh ice and top with ginger beer. BACARDÍ Superior Rum ½ oz. Monin Blood Orange Syrup ½ oz. Stir to incorporate.

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Good Spirits News

JULY 15, 2024

All The Bitter makes classically inspired cocktail bitters using organic, functional ingredients free of alcohol, full of flavor, and designed by Michelin-trained sommeliers. Equally at home in full strength, low- and no-alcohol cocktails, their bitters also make a great addition to sparkling water, tonic, ginger ale, tea, and beer.

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 19, 2024

Cognac , Liqueur The Cappiello Ingredients 1 ½ oz Monnet VS Cognac 1 oz Jules Theuriet Mango Liqueur Dash of Angostura Bitters Ginger beer Preparation In a shaker, add ice, Monnet Cognac VS, Jules Theuriet Mango Liqueur, and dash of Angostura bitters. Top off with ginger beer and garnish with fresh mango and rosemary.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 14, 2024

The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: Obviously the Beer Hug line has been doing well for Goose Island since they keep rolling out variants like this one, which just came through this week. Imagine trying to explain this beer label to someone from 2009. Happy Wednesday, friends.

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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. But these days, the beer consumer has a more varied palate. To find out what the next big thing in beer is, we asked 12 brewers which style they see on the rise.

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VinePair

AUGUST 15, 2024

Imagine, though, if you could take an unlimited stash of just one beer to have on hand during your potentially indefinite stay. In an old stone keep, there would be but one cask, never failing or becoming stale [but always pouring] the stuff that mimics the orange horizon: Machine House Cambridge Bitter. Here’s what they had to say.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 7, 2025

I don’t think they take a day off at Firestone, where the brews arrive on a breakneck pace, running the gamut from barrel-aged monstrosities to ultra-hoppy IPAs to, for the first time ever, a non-alcoholic beer. I’m not going to belabor it, so let’s just dive right in. Gently tropical on the finish, but never sweet.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Sweet Vermouth 3 dashes Angostura Bitters Preparation Add all ingredients in a mixing glass and stir until cold and diluted. Lime 1 tablespoon of Fig Jam 3 dashes Orange Bitters Topo Chico, to top Preparation Add all ingredients in a tin except the Topo Chico. Top off with ginger beer. PX Sherry ½ oz. Garnish with speared figs.

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Chilled Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

A few signatures include Friends with Benefits ($25) , whiskey, bitters, sugar – bottled and cured in beeswax; One Time Thing ($26) , cognac, banana, Montenegro, sherry, bitters; Hops to the Beat ($24) , tequila, citra hops, serrano, pineapple, lime, salt; Money, Baby! ($20)

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VinePair

JANUARY 1, 2024

craft beer production has more or less plateaued in recent years, the NA market continues to explode. According to Global Market Insights , the NA beer market was valued at over $22 billion in 2022, and is expected to nearly double over the next 10 years. Although U.S. Let’s just say we’ve come a long way from O’Doul’s.

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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. So without further ado, from the regional lagers to the hard-to-find grails, here are the beers best enjoyed as souvenirs. Georgia: Tropicália From Creature Comforts 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. revbrewchicago A post shared by @revbrewchicago I’ve updated our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map , and that was a real bummer of a “delete” button to have to press. No Bitter Pops ?

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Drinkhacker

JANUARY 9, 2024

The sweetness (with 14g of sugar) is palpable, but not overblown, though a minimal quinine note on the nose offers at least a suggestion of bitterness. Punchy hops add plenty of bitterness, with a finish that folds in lemon peel with notes of pine and a light layer of caramel.

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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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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2024

Donohue notes that the beer scene has matured considerably, but the city’s craft cocktails are still in their infancy, though the enthusiasm is there. Goods Local Brews “Bellingham is a beer town, with an exceptional amount of excellent microbreweries, so it’s hard to pick among them,” Donohue says. stop between Seattle and Vancouver.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The fundamentals aren’t changing, though: There’s still 350+ barrel-aged beers at UIC’s Credit Union 1 arena, plus ciders, meads, perrys, etc. Attendees can nominate fans on Facebook, Instagram, or X by sharing the name and photo of their favorite beer, tagging @FoBAB, and including #FoBABFanFav. Old Bakery Beer Co.

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 31, 2024

Rosemary is a delicious herb that really complements the bitterness of the orange flavor. RumChata Root Beer Float Your search ends here if you seek something convenient and easy to have in your back pocket. A root beer float offers that nostalgic taste that patrons will be obsessed with.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And no matter what your typical drink of choice is, the undisputed champ of beverages to wash down those wings is beer. After all, salty foods beg for a crisp, refreshing sidekick — think about how burger-and-beer combos are traditionally served with a Budweiser or a Miller. So why limit your options to macros?

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 20, 2024

Instead, Bailey’s Cadet Wine + Beer Bar played a major role in the revitalization of Napa’s formerly sleepy downtown. In 2014, when Aubrey Bailey left her job at the world-famous French Laundry restaurant to open a bar in downtown Napa, expectations were low. Everyone told me, ‘You’ll be back in six months,’” she says, laughing.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Ginger Beer 2 oz. Cava or Prosecco Preparation In a shaker with ice, add Triple Dog Irish Whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup and ginger beer. Honey Syrup 3 drops of Angostura Bitters Preparation Add all ingredients to the glass, stir well, add ice. Whiskey Irish Sparkling Mule Ingredients 1.5 Triple Dog Irish Whiskey 0.5

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 27, 2024

It brings a juicy quality, some bitterness, sweetness, lightness—it can cover a lot of bases, in both shaken and stirred drinks.” Clean Slate A punchy mix of sherry, bianco vermouth, Salers and bitters. Lavender Blanc Cocktail This easy drinking cocktail matches dry vermouth with soft lavender bitters and tonic water.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 2, 2024

When the American craft beer boom took off in the 1990s, it didn’t take long before we got brews that were hopped to high heaven. But in the grand scheme of beer history, hops are actually a relatively recent addition. When the Bavarian beer purity law (a.k.a. all beer in Europe relied on gruit for the same purposes.

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 5, 2024

Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing doesn’t just make beer. A- / $11 per six-pack 10 Barrel Brewing Juicy Drama Imperial IPA – A malty Imperial IPA that’s light on bitterness (Bravo and Simcoe hops only) and heavy with a creamy, orchard fruit — think apples (well-sauced), layered with notes of Meyer lemon and tangerine.

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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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 12, 2024

These emails depend on reader support to continue, and fewer and fewer beer-focused publications are around to support, promote and report on this industry. Big week for NA beer as Athletic also announced their own $50M equity investment. To receive new posts and support my work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber.

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Drinkhacker

OCTOBER 10, 2024

California’s Firestone Walker is back with its “Oaktoberfest” annual seasonal — now 18 years old — plus four editions of a new beer called Cali Squeeze. Four of the five Cali Squeeze beers are available in a variety pack, which is what we’re checking out below. Ready for oompah season?

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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. British bitter. Dark beers don’t get enough love.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 12, 2024

On January 12, 2011, something very important happened in the Chicago beer world: Haymarket Pub & Brewery opened for the first time. I’ve also added the Crooked Arm Vinyl & Tap in Lisle which we mentioned in the Monday news roundup as a new entry in the beer-friendly bar/resto section. They’ll love that.

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 3, 2024

Ginger Beer (Fever Tree) Preparation Pour all ingredients into a wine glass filled with ice. Simple Syrup 2 dashes Spicy Bitters (Hellfire or Firewire) Preparation Combine all ingredients in a mixing glass. Below are 3 classic cocktail recipes with a Chrome Horse Society twist. Try them out! Tequila Society Spritz Ingredients 1.5

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VinePair

JANUARY 28, 2024

Read on for the wine and beer pastry pairings you shouldn’t miss. They famously have prominent flavors of malt and bread, which will amp up the wheat flavors in a croissant, and their extra kick of hoppy bitterness provides contrast to its buttery richness. But if you don’t, prepare to meet the ideal match for this breakfast staple.

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