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. That means you’ll spy a lot of IPAs here, but you’ll also find plenty of seasonal stouts, dependable lagers, and eccentric sours, too. Pick up any stout or barleywine and thank us later.

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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

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. Next Friday at Dovetail : Puppies !

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 18, 2024

Untappd announced their new Community Awards last week and I spent some time poking through them — before quickly realizing that it’s an absolute firehose of beer ranking data points. I thought I’d look at how some of the world’s most critically praised beers fared. Pretty cool. It didn’t even place.

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VinePair

JANUARY 28, 2024

From alpine whites and malty stouts that make butter taste even more buttery, to the sweet, fortified finds that sing with chocolate, we’ve hand-picked the best drinks to enjoy with the treat of your choice. Read on for the wine and beer pastry pairings you shouldn’t miss.

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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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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. Autumn and winter are the seasons of brown ales, stouts, porters, and potent, warming winter seasonals. One of the most eagerly anticipated fall/winter beer releases is Tröegs Mad Elf.

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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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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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VinePair

JANUARY 1, 2024

craft beer production has more or less plateaued in recent years, the NA market continues to explode. According to Global Market Insights , the NA beer market was valued at over $22 billion in 2022, and is expected to nearly double over the next 10 years. Although U.S. Let’s just say we’ve come a long way from O’Doul’s.

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Alcohol Beer IPA Pilsner 122

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MARCH 1, 2024

That beer comes out one week from today, March 8, on International Women’s Day. Also being released on March 8th: Riveting Rouge, this year’s Pink Boots Society beer , coming out at Dovetail. Sounds like there’s going to be a Naperville release for that beer as well, but we’re still waiting on details.

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VinePair

JANUARY 29, 2024

When planning some of the first recipes at Dallas’s Vector Brewing , head of brewing Tomás Gutierrez looked to beer’s origins. The earliest beers made thousands of years ago were a kind of porridge or beer soup made from cereal grains. There was a Mexican pozole-inspired smoked beer, with a full hog’s head in the boil.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 12, 2023

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. With the exception of a few industry juggernauts, is the only real option for survival as a beer brand to be a local, or regional, operation? Tune in for more.

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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. Credit: Samuel Adams No beer is immune from vanishing or evolving. The outcry was as expected.

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Beer IPA Craft Beer Pilsner 111

Dry Atlas

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Beer, one of the oldest and most popular drinks in the world, has been around since as early as 9500 BC. The main ingredients in beer are water, malted barley, hops for flavor, and yeast for fermentation. Different cultures have created many types of beer by varying these ingredients and brewing methods.

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VinePair

MARCH 28, 2024

Through the snowless 60-degree days, however, one boreal harbinger has remained intact: the Russian imperial stout. Rich and complex, Russian imperial stouts are differentiated from other dark beers by both strength and apocrypha. In 2001, the resultant beer, Czar Jack, was born. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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Stout Beer Craft Beer Pilsner 126

VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Early Guinness slogans touted the beer as a strength-building brew that can wake you up and bolster your health. Read on to get to the bottom of the most common myths about the stout. It’s pitch black, leading one to believe that its contents might go down more like a milkshake than a traditional beer. It’s a meal in a glass.

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Spiritz

APRIL 25, 2024

The fascinating world of beer is so dynamic and no week seems to be the same in this dynamic market. The beer industry in India is witnessing a profound transformation in response to shifting consumer preferences, marked by a growing demand for new expressions and styles.

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VinePair

JUNE 4, 2024

Drinkers fetishize crisp pilsners topped with foamy poofs, while hard seltzers still bubble across a $3 billion landscape. Twisted Tea , which is owned by Boston Beer Company , has become a category-defining behemoth with broadly appealing flavors and, like iced tea, zero carbonation. These are interesting days for carbon dioxide.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

The only beer we have is IPA” When Boy George’s cameo finally arrives, he hits us with a bridge about the sad state of the cocktail bar taplist: “No pilsners, no stouts. But we’re happy to report that beer lists are looking a lot less bleak these days. That’s not what we’re about.”

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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

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 22, 2024

It’s no Liquid Death, as branding achievements go, but moving that much product by only selling a single light lager … well, it tells you where the movement in craft beer is heading, isn’t it? Apologies to Hop Butcher and Miskatonic , who also also crafted a Hobson Oak beer way back in ‘18 along with Solemn Oath.

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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. Sales have slowed.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 7, 2024

Before the first round of American craft beer booms in the ‘60s, pretty much all the domestic breweries until then were founded by European immigrants who brought their skill sets to the new world. These brewers were making beers using hops varieties brought over from their native countries. What Are Old World hops?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 8, 2023

10th so if you want to pay homage to the place where Chicago’s craft beer scene really got its start, you should probably start making plans now. I think a lot of us receiving this email do, but the rest of the world will probably be just as happy to have fresh Goose beer on hand at a concert at the Salt Shed. So it goes.

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Drinkhacker

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Founded by two footwear magnates and leaning on the distilling prowess of Charbay ‘s Marko Karakasevic, the outfit drew a lot of its playbook from Charbay’s longtime program of making whiskey out of beer. None of them area available in stores. Get ’em while you can. Wolves Whiskey Malted Barley Series Lot No. 110 proof.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JULY 29, 2024

When The Beer Temple pairs up with Scratch Brewing, great things happen. If you’ve been with us for a few years, you probably know that we have long been fans of the creative, considered, unique beers produced by downstate Scratch Brewing , so when The Beer Temple announced a beer dinner (their first!)

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