Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 21, 2024

Really cold beer. It’s another crazy weekend for events at breweries all over the place. Here are a bunch of upcoming… This Weekend: All weekend long, you can head to Goldfinger Brewing Company for their “Community Weekend” which means $6 beers today through Sunday. You know what I’ve heard helps?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 19, 2024

And I thought Halloween and New Years were busy — the next few weeks have so many fun-looking events at breweries that I apologize in advance for whichever ones I missed. Plenty of time to hop on the free shuttle and try all four variants of the Hop Frost Cold IPA. Outdoor beers and oysters? Yes please.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 8, 2024

Hi, all — Sharing this one with you a little early as I’m currently on the way to Kalamazoo, where I’ll be attending a pre-Oberon Day media event at Bell’s. This year’s Pink Boots Society beer releases today at Dovetail and both Miskatonic spaces. Will keep you posted via Instagram stories.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 26, 2024

The World Beer Cup awards were announced Wednesday night and I’m always thrilled when the most competitive award goes to a Midwestern brewery — even more so when it’s one of my favorites in Chicago. Old Irving Brewery’s Beezer beat out 325 other beers to earn the Gold Medal for Juicy/Hazy IPA.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 19, 2024

If you enjoyed their beers, good news — they already have plans to keep popping up around town. From their announcement: “This isn’t the end - it’s a transition…We will continue to harness the kindness and power of the Chicago beer community and to share our visions of beer and brewing.

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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. That means that today is Haymarket’s 13th birthday, and they’re celebrating with some special gifts for us: Their award-winning Defender Stout and Matthias IPA. They’ll love that.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Craft Beer & Brewing’s annual Best in Beer issue has dropped , and with it come a number of accolades for Chicagoland and Midwestern breweries. (No Hop Butcher cracked the Top 10 for IPA brewer with Bell’s a few ticks higher at #6. Sounds like a great reason to crack open a beer or two. ” Yeehaw.

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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. Converse is the hospitality & event manager for Solemn Oath and Hidden Hand and also the creator of FoBAB’s Lager Lounge. How’d all this come together?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 2, 2024

We’ll also talk more next week about the USAToday Readers Choice 10Best beer-related award voting going on, but while we’re here, both Funkytown Brewing and Turner Haus Brewing were also nominated this week as one of the Best New Breweries in America — so that’s pretty cool. Finally, Moor’s Brewing Co.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 15, 2024

So if you see me out and about with a green beer in my hand, no you didn’t. But I might pop up at a beer bar or a brewery or two around the north side over the next 48 hours or so. Here’s something unique: Tomorrow night, Whiner Beer is hosting a St. Lucky Dorr returns for a new season of beer drinking on March 23.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

USAToday’s 10Best.com regularly runs a variety of craft-beer focused competitions and there are a wide array of Midwestern contenders for the awards currently being discussed. Would love to see Geneva get their due as a great small town beer scene — didn’t expect to see that included.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 31, 2024

You’re receiving this email a little early today, because I’m heading into town for a show at the Salt Shed this evening, which means I’ll likely be drinking some Salt Shed Goose Island beers slightly before showtime. “Craft beer is now ordinary.” And now, events! I did donuts in my Jeep.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 29, 2024

With their Grand Opening today, we’d like to officially welcome Demo to the Chicagoland beer scene! Even the most unadventurous of tourists now have no excuse not to get a local beer (of course, they should also stop at Crushed by Giants as well). Today, they open up the doors and welcome us all inside.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

Let’s all now take a moment to appreciate their awesome logo: A Scottish Highland cow that’s also a hop cone: Subscribe now Also, a brief reminder that voting for the annual array of beer-centric USAToday 10Best Readers Choice awards closes at noon on Monday. Not sure what all that is? Seedz really wants your vote.)

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 24, 2024

First up, a little pre-holiday-weekend admin: Due to the Memorial Day holiday, we will not be publishing a beer news email on Monday , but we will be hoping you can enjoy a little time off, presumably with a beer or three. If that interested you, you can attend their relaunch event at Emporium Arcade Bar in Logan Square on the 29th.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 5, 2024

April is a busy month, so let’s get straight to our… First up: Tomorrow morning, The Beer Temple will sell tickets to this year’s Cantillon Zwanze Day. VIP tickets and higher add an hour of extra access to the fest beers, food from Craft Urban and a code for a free ride home from Lyft. Great idea!

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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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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. Try something different at your local beer bar or neighborhood taproom. Axios Indianapolis praised Triton’s Rail Splitter IPA.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 1, 2023

Now open in Woodstock : MobCraft Beer Woodstock! But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. But after the year in beer that we’ve had, I’ll take positivity where I can find it. “ Until this new hazy IPA from Lil’Why came out, at least.

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AUGUST 26, 2024

We recently popped in and enjoyed a couple of the very first beers they ever made – the pale ale Spotted Saddle and Hanoverian, a hoppy hefeweizen – which are back on draft, along with Warlander, a 10% triple IPA, and each threads the needle on the respective styles. and they want your help in naming it.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 25, 2024

To all of us, I recommend reading this story on Forbes about Oberon’s history, its status as a state “holiday” and then also a look at the many Oberon release day events around Michigan. I’m not fully sure why a publication called The Tech Edvocate wrote up a story praising The Beer Temple , but they did!

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 24, 2024

First up, some breaking news this afternoon: Short Fuse has announced that they were the ones who purchased the brand rights to Metropolitan Brewing , and will begin brewing Metro’s beers for sale from their Schiller Park taproom to start. Someone else making their beers without them being involved isn’t Metro to me.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 8, 2024

John, we thought we’d take a few minutes to poke around on the status of a few things in Northwest Indiana’s once-thriving craft beer scene. Their IL distro kick-off event is Wednesday at Crafted 1979 in Mokena. Most-clicked link in last week’s email : Who Killed Craft Beer from Time Out London.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 6, 2024

When spring finally kicks in, it’s a great time to be a beer drinker in the Midwest. With all that going on, allow yourself to be a little hopeful about craft beer this week. For us, the annual Beer Under Glass festival always serves as a kickoff for a great few months of warm-weather beer drinking and this year was no different.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 18, 2023

I snagged the last three 6’ers I was able to find at Binnys and I’ve been working through them this week because it’s lager and you drink beer, you don’t hoard it. Who’s ready for a beer? This week’s Craft Beer & Brewing podcast features a conversation with Tom Beckmann of Goldfinger Brewing.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

It’s safe to say that the craft beer boom has now reached nearly every corner of the globe. This year’s list of the best beer destinations recognizes cities with up-and-coming craft scenes, many of which have exploded in recent years. Head to the taproom for crisp, low-ABV brews marked by notes of tropical fruits and citrus.

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PubClub

JUNE 11, 2024

ABV, the Karl Strauss Tower X² Double IPA packs a real punch. San Diego’s Karl Strauss Brewing Company is hosting a launch party for a new beer release which in turn, it kind of a launch into SD Beer Weekend. All beers will be $6. Nothing says San Diego summer like a thrilling beer that is sure to pack a punch.”

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Spiritz

APRIL 29, 2024

The Indian beer market is becoming increasingly competitive and breweries will need to differentiate themselves through brand identity, innovative marketing strategies, and a focus on customer experience. If there is one thing that players in the Indian beer industry agree upon, it is the fact that premiumisation is on the rise.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 11, 2024

If the amount of news is any indication, taprooms will soon start filling up and plenty of beer will be flowing from draft lines across the country, because we have over four dozen pieces of beer news in this week’s email (and that doesn’t include the handful of links that got left on the edit room floor).

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VinePair

DECEMBER 29, 2023

As with any exceptional wines and spirits one has over the course of a lifetime, the best beers should linger long after the last sip, lip smack, and smile. It’s a gorgeous and artfully crafted beer, and it’s a lot of fun to drink.” North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4% North Park Beer Company Kiwi to Bogey 5.4%

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VinePair

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Days before Thanksgiving, Cloudburst announced its nostalgic winter warmer with a self-deprecating Instagram post (it’s a “beer you can drink one can of [and] leave a second can in the back of your fridge”) that became a potent sales pitch. Drinkers regularly bypass enduring brands for the latest-model IPA. Have some dry-hopped flings!

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VinePair

JULY 18, 2024

Beer is practically synonymous with baseball, BBQ, and the beach. Perhaps a juicy hazy IPA that delivers a tropical punch, or maybe a berry sour to satisfy a sweet tooth. Their answers ranged from nostalgic New England classics to dry, hoppy cans and even a classic beer cocktail. I’m instantly transported to the islands.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

It’s not every week that the biggest beer news story comes from Iowa. ” Brewbound posted the Temperance release for their amplified Gatecrasher IPA in celebration of their 10th anniversary. Charles is hosting their first “Beer, Charity and Music” gathering on Dec. Por que no los dos?

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Imbibe Magazine

MAY 22, 2024

Teams could register at their leisure, maybe over morning coffees or evening beers. Photos by Tim Robison Sports and beer have long occupied intersections of perspiration and spectatorship. Beer is a reward for exertion, or what fans grip and sip while rooting for home teams and underdogs. notably owned the St.

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PubClub

MARCH 7, 2024

In sunny San Diego, Karl Strauss Brewing Company has released a craft beer called, appropriately enough, Follow The Sun Lager. AVB – has notes of crisp malt and a subtle hop bitterness and is a new core beer for the brewery. The beer’s launch also marks a change in Karl Strauss packaging. The light-bodied American lager – 4.2%

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Spiritz

APRIL 26, 2024

Along with enhancing the appeal of beer through taste, aroma and packaging, the industry feels that there is a strong need to make its operations increasingly sustainable and environment-friendly. It is evident that the journey of beer in the Indian market is far from static. It’s not just ale that holds its place.

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PubClub

APRIL 26, 2024

For breweries, winning at the World Beer Cup is like winning a medal at the Olympics. Photo: World Beer Cup Three San Diego Breweries were awarded gold medals at the 2024 World Beer Cup, the the largest international beer competition often called the “Olympics of beer competitions.”

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