VinePair

NOVEMBER 5, 2024

It used to be that once a week there was an exciting one-off beer release that had fans rushing to breweries and stores — and then rushing to social media to post their scores. But then came the pandemic, the rise of seltzer-loving Zoomers, and what seemed to be the end of anyone giving a damn about rare beer releases.

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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

A red wine grape with centuries of history throughout the Americas, Mission goes by several names. Next-generation Mission wines are a diverse lot, spanning zippy rosés, rich reds, and light-bodied, ruby-hued wines that are especially refreshing when chilled. 21.95, empirewine.com Scythian Wine Co. 47.99, mexicanwine.us

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Spend enough time enjoying, collecting, or working with wine, and you’ve come across them. Thick, heavy glass bottles certainly had their moment in the sun. Regular sized 750-milliliter bottles? But recently, if slowly, the wine world seems to have finally caught on to the magnificent absurdity of it all. The message?

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Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Harlem Brew Soul: A Beer-Infused Soul Food Cookbook Celeste Beatty was one of the first Black woman to own a brewery in the U.S. 24 Imbibe Gift Subscription Give the gift of great drinks with a subscription to Imbibe —perfect for the home bartender, beer lover, wine connoisseur, or general beverage enthusiast! . $24

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VinePair

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

And spending time perusing wine shop shelves while internally panicking about how you need to baste the turkey in 15 minutes is no fun. We compiled our top Thanksgiving wine picks so you can shop with ease and get back in time to “shoo” everyone out of the kitchen. Read on for the 30 best wines to drink this Thanksgiving.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

You may have noticed the increasing prevalence of wines from regions like Galicia or Catalunya on wine lists, or even the spate of locales leaning fully Spanish. In our March/April issue , Jennifer Fiedler explores the growing wave of Spanish wine bars and restaurants. The following are Spanish wine bars on our radar.

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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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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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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

Odds are, your familiarity with Cava, the sparkling wine of Spain’s Catalonia region, may simply be as a cheap bottle of bubbles. That’s because the vast majority of the quarter billion bottles sold globally are classified as Cava de Guarda, the youngest and least expensive category.

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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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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine. Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. I became obsessed with orange wine over a decade ago,” she says.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

For Jorge Riera , the headline-making, French-heavy wine lists he created for New York City’s Frenchette aren’t especially new—for him. To Jon Bonné, managing editor of Resy and author of The New French Wine (Ten Speed Press, 2023), the return of France as a dominant news peg in the wine world feels a little like a homecoming.

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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

Despite its location in the heart of America’s most prestigious wine region, the city of Napa didn’t land on many people’s radars 10 years ago. No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built.

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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. Time Beer can’t escape it, and neither can we.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Intrigued by the growing presence of Slovenian wine on store shelves and wine lists, we dove into the category in our March/April 2024 issue. Daniel Lukin-Beck, general manager of Vinum Imports , which has specialized in wines from the country for more than 20 years, offered an introduction in our “5 to Try” column.

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VinePair

OCTOBER 27, 2024

When serving wine, most drinkers at home are primarily concerned with how to get a bottle cooled down as quickly as possible. But there are occasions when wine can get too cold and might need a bit of warming up to hit the optimal temperature. Before we get into the details, what happens when a bottle gets too chilly?

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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

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of our 2024 Imbibe 75 Places to Watch, The Ruby Fruit —a buzzed-about restaurant and wine bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood and the city’s first lesbian bar in years—is all about cultivating a welcoming, community-minded space. Terah Wine Co. Terah Wine Co. ’s Or a bottle for the table!”

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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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VinePair

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Despite gaining momentum in the casual wine bar and restaurant scene, it’s a delivery system that still makes some winemakers and venues — not to mention certain wine drinkers — a little uneasy. The Yes, Yes, and Yes of Keg Wine The keg concept, at least on paper, should be a no-brainer and win-win all around.

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VinePair

MAY 14, 2024

Sure, competitions like the World Beer Cup may have had a huge impact in the heyday of craft beer, but now even consumers have a voice that some may deem more trustworthy via community-driven rating systems like BeerAdvocate and Untappd. appeared first on VinePair.

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VinePair

JUNE 23, 2024

Wine tourism is a bonafide industry. 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. Curating such a list is no small feat.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 5, 2024

This is the perfect time to mention the ICBG’s January project to keep some cash flowing through small breweries around the state during what is traditionally beer’s slowest month. Each week, the owners of the two most dynamic Illinois beer fridges will win a $50 gift card to a local brewery. Seldom Beer Co.

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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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VinePair

AUGUST 12, 2024

From German Wegbier , open-container beer drunk on Berlin streets and en route to Bavarian biergarten, to cross-continent rail journeys, Europeans love to combine the necessity of travel with the pleasure of a good glass. But it’s a vital part of the culture in Germany, where 84 percent of beer is consumed packaged rather than on draft.

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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. A person-by-person palate shift helps Alma’s cultivate a customer base crossing over from sour ales or natural wines.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 10, 2024

In 2022, the duo built an outdoor wine garden in an empty Fishtown lot and poured glasses of minimal-intervention MCC wines—made with Pennsylvania grapes—from a refurbished trolley. By night, Forîn hosts residencies for local restaurants, and pours wine, beer, and cocktails, like an Espresso Martini with house coffee.

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Cheers

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

The beer industry’s struggles have continued this past year as consumers gravitate to spirits and cocktails and ready-to-drink (RTD) beverages, more of which seem to hit the market each week. But among the people whose drink of choice is beer, what are the favorite brands today? To commemorate its 195th anniversary, D.G.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 26, 2024

Laurin Mack is the owner of the 170-year-old Seipp brand as well as the great-great-great-granddaughter of Chicago beer baron Conrad Seipp. We chatted about the move, and she definitely recognizes the irony in the fact that these beers are going to be brewed at a facility that was originally a Pabst building.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Dave O’Brien’s wine-focused vermouth has its origin story in a great vacation. “On Among the many aspects of Basque culture that O’Brien enjoyed was Txakoli , the dry, white wine made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape. (A A rosé version from a related grape is more prominent on the export market than it is in the wine’s home region.)

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

When the team behind Oxalis , a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, opened Clinton Hill wine bar Place des Fêtes in 2022, beverage director Piper Kristensen knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: re-create the same-old, same-old bistronomy-style French-heavy list. Spanish wine—even great Spanish wine—isn’t new to stateside customers.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 4, 2023

When their beer is gone, Waukegan’s Zumbier will be closing after over a decade in business, as announced on Facebook last month. We will remain open until the beer reserves run out,” they said. Everyone wants more beer knowledge in their life, right? The Craft Beer & Brewing podcast is on a real Chicago kick.

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Cheers

MARCH 5, 2024

All wines are bubbly at some point because carbon dioxide is a byproduct of fermenting sugar into alcohol. However, this natural carbonation is usually allowed to dissipate, leaving a still wine behind. Sparkling wine” as we know it did not catch on until the early 19th century, pioneered in the Champagne region of France.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 17, 2024

Not many craft beers get 30th birthdays, but up here in northern Michigan, today we celebrate three decades of Manitou Amber Ale. Originally brewed by Traverse Brewing, the beer moved to Brewery Terra Firma when they opened up shop about a decade back. Ballast Point (and, one must assume, their Kings & Convicts beers also?)

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Imbibe Magazine

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

Because Lambrusco, the name of a family of grape varieties that hail from Italy’s Emilia-Romagna region, is a sparkling red or rosé wine that can be made in a variety of styles, it’s frequently misunderstood or miscategorized stateside. In the 1980s, inexpensively made Lambrusco wines flooded the U.S. Yes, the name is a mouthful.

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VinePair

JUNE 12, 2024

Summer is fast approaching, which means coolers around the country will soon be filled with rosés and crisp white wines to fend off the season’s inevitable heat. But this year, some wine-lovers will swap out the typical bottles of Sauvignon Blanc and Chablis for… red wine? So what makes a red wine chillable?

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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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