Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

Tomorrow, over a hundred people will be gathering for the brew day of Vibes Since 1920 , a collaborative beer slated for release in March for Women’s Month. ” The variety of participants in this project runs the gamut across the beer enthusiast spectrum. . ” That’s a lot of people around one brew deck.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 26, 2024

Some genuinely unfortunate news from Averie Swanson, owner of Keeping Together , the beer brand founded in Chicago that’s working to open a space in Santa Fe, NM. They actually sat down with the offending customer and had a beer together. You’ll get Dovetail beer and four samples of landjaeger, so how can you pass that up?

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Imbibe Magazine

JANUARY 27, 2025

I saw many friends and familiar faces at Pableauxs table over the years, but I also heard him say that hed never assembled exactly the same group of people together more than once.

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VinePair

MARCH 4, 2024

Whether it be the hop resins at the bottom of an IPA , the yeast at the bottom of a saison , or the wheat floating around in a hefeweizen , most beer drinkers have been faced with a millimeter of sketchy-looking dregs sitting in their glass. ’s Nebuleus Beer. Is it safe to drink beer dregs? It doesn’t give you the sh*ts.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2024

For December, the holiday-inspired kit contains an NA bourbon, cranberry-vanilla mix, ginger beer, fig-rosemary jam, and two copper mule mugs. Brand-loyal drinkers can shop kits featuring their favorite bottles thanks to Cocktail Courier’s brand partnerships. Buy a single box or subscribe for one, three, six, or 12 months.

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VinePair

MAY 21, 2024

now has a selection of local microbreweries, there are still moments that call for a good old macro beer. You might find yourself in a dive bar or at a sports arena without a wide selection of craft brews, or you could end up at a party or tailgate where the hosts have opted to lean into a more affordable beer lineup.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 31, 2024

But if the French brewer Godefroy Baijot has his way, at least a few folks will be toasting to health and happiness in 2025 with his new Champagne-style beer, Gde, which uses the same mthode traditionnelle as Champagne, though with 100 percent malted barley instead of grapes. And then comes the beer. To clarify, Gde is not a brut IPA.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 28, 2024

They’re donating 100% of the proceeds from draft beer sales and 20% of the proceeds from food/bottles/cans/other booze purchases to offset the nearly-half-million-dollar losses that Keeping Together suffered following the closure of their brewhouse equipment provider. More here.)

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VinePair

JANUARY 11, 2024

Unlike wine enthusiasts, beer nerds face one particular restriction when they get their hands on a grailed bottle of suds: There’s really no saving it for a special occasion. Does Beer Expire? No, beer doesn’t expire per se. Oxygen Oxidation is also generally seen as having a negative effect on beer, and rightfully so.

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 14, 2024

Tonya Cornett started her brewing career in the burgeoning craft scene of mid-’90s Colorado and discovered a knack for the process-driven creativity of making beer. This April she won one of the most prestigious awards in beer: the Brewers Association’s Russell Schehrer Award for Innovation in Craft Brewing.

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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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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Averie Swanson is one of the most respected brewers of mixed-fermentation beer in the country, yet she’s never had a brick-and-mortar location to call her own. Fans have been able to find Swanson’s creations in Chicago and at various festivals and events, but Keeping Together beers demand a dedicated place.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 13, 2024

Any time we lose someplace with nearly 40 years of beer history in Chicago, even if their profile has dropped off a lot over the last decade, I think it’s still worth acknowledging. My favorite place to be was the in cellar/basement when we received new stock of delicate, intentionally crafted, beer from around the world.

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Drinkhacker

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The newest offering for Whiskey Club members is a bottled in bond expression with maturation beyond 7 years. Westward dumped the barrels in June 2024 for Master Blender Miles Monroe to blend and bottle in early July 2024. Westward dumped the barrels in June 2024 for Master Blender Miles Monroe to blend and bottle in early July 2024.

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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. Nonetheless, we went with Pipeworks Brewing Co. sorry, Goose Island.

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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

AUGUST 26, 2024

His intimate Los Angeles bar, Alma’s Cider & Beer , which opened in 2021, is a 558-square-foot jewel box bathed in three shades of blue, decorated with quirky dioramas and a chandelier evoking flying saucers. Alma’s Cider & Beer in Los Angeles: Anxo Imperial Cider (left). Craft beer distorts the concept of locality.

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Imbibe Magazine

MARCH 18, 2024

Whether you’re seeking a well-made craft cocktail, a beer brewed with local ingredients, or an education on mezcal, Tucson brings it home. In addition to their signature Old Fashioned, the bar, bottle shop, and part-time bakery crafts cocktails like the Notorious F.I.G. with bourbon, sweet vermouth, and fig and allspice liqueurs.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 10, 2024

By night, Forîn hosts residencies for local restaurants, and pours wine, beer, and cocktails, like an Espresso Martini with house coffee. The zero-proof drinks list includes the Fruits of Labor, featuring house-made grapefruit cordial topped with bubbles, and Athletic NA beers. It’s a great place to go and relax with a beer.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 15, 2024

With that out of the way, this remains a largely beer- drinker -facing publication, rather than a beer- industry -facing one, so as we head into warmer beer-drinkin’ weather, I’m going to ask you something that I’ve been thinking about lately. Don’t forget to stay hydrated. Wish I knew! Last year.

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Spiritz

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

Café hoppers in select cities of Uttar Pradesh will soon have the option of ordering a beer or wine with their meal. According to the new UP excise policy for 2025-26, low-alcohol bars — which serve only beer and wine — will pop up in Noida, Ghaziabad, Agra and Lucknow. This will be applicable in each district.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 26, 2024

Attorney Mark Kocol has been a hands-on owner, handling brewing, bottling, delivering sixtels, you name it. Shaw Local has a big list of local craft beer festivals taking place around the ‘burbs in the coming months, just in case we miss some of these in future Friday emails. and they want your help in naming it.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 1, 2024

With the long holiday weekend coming up, if you’re in the area, I’d invite you to take a spin through our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map and find someplace new to visit for a beer. Find a bottle shop. Try something different at your local beer bar or neighborhood taproom. Dude loves his Lakefront beer.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

AUGUST 9, 2024

I can’t believe beer and spirits makers are still doing s**t like this. But apparently Spirit Water - the brewery and distillery in suburban Cary owned and operated by Tim Kovac , the creator of Not Your Father’s Root Beer — thinks it’s perfectly fine to promote a vodka called … Panty Dropper. Anyone else?

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

But beer tourism? Even then, taking a vacation devoted to beer is a harder thing to justify. Nonetheless, there are stellar breweries around the country that bring beer nerds to their taprooms every year to score their most coveted releases. Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 6, 2023

Since the dawn of craft beer, bars have played a pivotal role in the boom of American brewing. Nowhere is this more true than at the more specialized spots: the beer bars, as we know them, with their thoughtful selections across tap lines and bottle lists, and their dedication to service, atmosphere, and education.

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VinePair

MARCH 28, 2024

Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. According to Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) guidelines, Russian imperials should be high in ABV (8–12 percent, well-hopped (50–90 IBU), and “very dark reddish-brown to jet black.”

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Chilled Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2024

This year, BACARDÍ has revamped its limited-edition bottle and crafted some eerie-sistable cocktails. BACARDÍ’s latest limited-edition mummified Halloween bottle, featuring a captivating glow-in-the-dark design, is sure to elevate your spooky celebrations this fall. BACARDÍ Superior Rum ½ oz. Monin Blood Orange Syrup ½ oz.

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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 Kaiser Tiger ?

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Imbibe Magazine

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

They bonded over their love of beer, lamenting that few mainstream beer brands catered to the queer community outside of Pride Month. Left to right: Sarah Hallonquist (left) and Loretta Andro Chung, owners of Dyke Beer in Brooklyn. Photo by Eric Medsker; Shift Beer at Hopewell Brewing in Chicago. We refer to it as beer.

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VinePair

JULY 30, 2024

If you’re like most drinkers, you’re likely starting to see a lot more non-alcoholic beer around. Last fall, The Wall Street Journal reported a jump of 32 percent in sales of non-alcoholic beer from a year earlier and an average of 31 percent growth over the previous four years, citing data from NielsenIQ. The TL;DR: a solid maybe.

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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. Photo courtesy of Folklore Cadet You may find yourself on the barstool next to the winemaker whose bottle you just ordered at this welcoming industry hangout just off Napa’s main drag.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2024

But if you want to try creating your own ice-cold bottled cocktail, Hirsch shared some of his tips, including how not to accidentally turn your favorite drink into a 750ml popsicle. And even though his take on the El Diablo spices up the classic with ginger liqueur, it still requires a top off of ginger beer.

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Chilled Magazine

DECEMBER 23, 2023

If you were to rate the beer styles available in each season, you’d have a tough time beating the choices released in fall and winter. Not only are there certain, darker, warmer beers scattered throughout the colder months but there are also limited-release, yearly offerings that many beer drinkers look forward to.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 2, 2024

It sure feels like the first Monday of the year, so I thought I’d put a whole mess of beer news in your inboxes today. We’re also looking out for anything from Suncatcher Brewing, who dropped an introductory batch of the beers they brewed at Hill Farmstead around Chicago and then went radio silent. You’re welcome.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 22, 2023

Or a possible infringement of another brewery’s very recognizable line of beers? Well, they posted a label for a beer called “Beer for brewers who make beers for things.” Hey Premium Subscribers — remember a few weeks ago when we showed you the new NA beer labels from Surly ?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 13, 2024

That’s why this is… The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: On Monday, we showed you a news story about Excel Brewing & Bottling Company in downstate Breese, and today we see this label drop into our laps.

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