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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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Midwest, Mountain, and Northleft: Meet the Latest Regional IPA Styles

VinePair

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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The Mount Rushmore of Craft Breweries, According to 8 Beer Experts

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craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. There are around 10,000 craft breweries in America. We asked eight of America’s most insightful beer voices for their Mount Rushmore of craft breweries. Samuel Adams (Boston Beer Co.):

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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. The robustness of Munich and Vienna malts is balanced by the Saphir and Warrior bittering hops for a clean finish. “We

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The Mount Rushmore of IPAs, According to 8 Beer Experts

VinePair

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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The VinePair Podcast: Can Craft Beer Enter the Light Lager Conversation?

VinePair

With brands like Montana’s Montucky Cold Snacks on the rise , we’re left wondering if beer consumers are still thirsting for high-ABV juice bombs like they have been in recent years. Joanna is reading: The Bitter Truth? Tune in for more. appeared first on VinePair.

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We Asked 12 Brewers: What’s the Next Big Beer Style? (2024)

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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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