Cheers

NOVEMBER 20, 2024

Italian cruise line Costa Cruises this fall announced unique new ways guests can enjoy beer on board with a diverse and international selection in its restaurants, bars and lounges. Along with Heineken, the contemporary pub serves other well-known beers such as the U.K.’s

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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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Beer IPA Pilsner Alcohol 147

VinePair

JUNE 19, 2024

Over the past decade, IPAs have dominated the hearts, minds, and fridges of the beer drinking public. Some people joke that the acronym stands for “Immediate Profits Ahead” because of how much of a sure thing it is in the business, but today we’re going to discuss an IPA that sure wasn’t. Tune in for more.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

annually collaborates with Venture Snowboards on a Ska-themed snowboard that might feature its logo, dapper skeleton mascot, or a new beer. A fizzy, fragrant, Champagne-inspired IPA couldn’t hack it in a world gone hazy. She was like, ‘That was my favorite beer. To this day, it’s still one of our favorite beers that we’ve made.”

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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

OCTOBER 9, 2024

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. We hear a lot of people say, ‘I don’t really drink beer, but I drink KSA,’” says Fort Point chief brand officer Dina Dobkin.

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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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Beer Craft Beer IPA Stout 140

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.

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PubClub

DECEMBER 18, 2023

Photo: Original 40 Brewing Company San Diego has a pair of new craft beers, one of them a 9.0 AVB (alcohol-by-volume) double IPA. The Original 40 Brewing Company has released Big Tings West Coast Double IPA, along with a much more modest 5.2 It pours a light orange hue and has the highest ABV of any beer on tap.

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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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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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Beer IPA Stout Pilsner 124

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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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

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

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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VinePair

OCTOBER 29, 2024

On the heels of Chicago’s Vinitaly conference, Adam and Joanna return to the Big Apple with some thoughts about how the wine industry can dig itself out of the hole it’s been in as of late. Despite an overarching belief at Vinitaly that wine could benefit from an industry-wide campaign à la “Got Milk?” Tune in for more.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 20, 2024

Anyone get a chance to try the options from Tilquin Gueuze at Hopleaf or Beer Temple? ” I mentioned on Friday that Hopleaf was part of the release, and then I saw that Beer Temple was also. I never get to play in the big beer-release reindeer games, so I of course went in to check it out. 400 beer drinkers.

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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

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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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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Beer Craft Beer IPA Club 100

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. Sales have slowed.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 24, 2024

Normally, there’s no real good reason to leave Santa Barbara, California, and drive due north on Mission Canyon Road in search of great beer. That day, the 78-acre expanse temporarily transforms into the Beer Garden, a festival that encourages attendees to stroll past California plants—and drink them too.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

While some may reach for a Hot Toddy , Buttered Rum , or some spiked hot cocoa, there are also many beers that are the perfect complement to winter weather. So, what makes a beer suitable for frosty days and frigid nights? That’s why we asked 13 brewers for their go-to cold weather beer. I’ve made black IPAs to black kolschs.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 22, 2024

With two of the Guys Drinking Beer founders having relocated to Michigan and our NWI correspondent being a die-hard Lions fan, it makes sense that you’re occasionally gonna get a fair amount of Michigan beer news in these emails. All in all, a fairly chill week of beer news.

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VinePair

JUNE 11, 2024

With nearly every conceivable IPA variant, from cold to milkshake to hoppy absurdity , and stouts barrel-aged and pastrified to the nth degree, it seems that craft beer has reached a point of all-time stagnation. This grim state of affairs begs the question: Has craft beer gotten boring? appeared first on VinePair.

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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% Providence, R.I. Greeley, Colo.

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Beer Pilsner IPA Stout 124

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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Beer IPA Craft Beer Pilsner 137

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?

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VinePair

JULY 10, 2024

Making beer has long been the proving ground for innovative technologies, from the earliest mercury thermometer and first saccharometer through the introduction of the cylindroconical fermenter and on to the modern hop torpedo. If you put 10 beers in front of them and one or two are molecular, they will not be able to pinpoint them.”

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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. Y’all are the best.

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VinePair

AUGUST 6, 2024

It’s a cruel irony of the modern beer world that the growth and success of craft beer in America has served to essentially clobber beer tourism. While the overwhelming majority of beers are made with dried, or kilned, hops, they can also be used in their fresh, or “wet” state — they’re just tremendously fragile and short-lived.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

Pacific Northwest-based Alaska Airlines serves Straightaway canned cocktails and Stumptown coffee from Portland, Oregon, as well as a custom-brewed IPA from Seattle’s Fremont Brewing and the nonalcoholic Electro Lime Cerveza from Northern California’s Best Day Brewing. I tried to pick cocktails that are easy to love and easy to make.”

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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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VinePair

MAY 2, 2024

When’s the last time you heard someone claiming to crave a warm, cozy IPA or an ice-cold glass of Bordeaux ? So, I put a drop of beer on my hand to see the contact angle.” At low temperature, the tetrahedral clusters become the low concentration amount, and this is why we drink cold beer,” Jiang tells Phys.org. Probably never.

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PubClub

MAY 2, 2024

These are Alvarado Street Brewery’s 10th anniversary beers. The drink most associated with Monterey, CA, is wine. And for good reason – there are nearly 350 vineyards in Monterey County and in the town, along with neighboring Carmel, there are 18 wine tasting rooms. Double Dry Hopped.

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Beer Pilsner IPA Craft Beer 52

VinePair

MARCH 5, 2024

When buying wine at a restaurant or wine bar, it’s common knowledge that the best bang for your buck lies in the by-the-bottle list. However, for the curious consumer who may want to taste through multiple wines in one sitting, options to do so are dwindling. Hence why by-the-glass pours continue to cost a pretty penny.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2023

This episode of “The VinePair Podcast” is sponsored by The Prisoner Wine Company. Give a gift that doesn’t require wrapping with premium gift sets from The Prisoner Wine Company. In light of recent news that Diageo intends to sell off all beer brands besides Guinness , it appears as if globally distributed beer is weakening.

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