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The highest rated beer from Illinois this year belongs to Phase Three , whose Consume S-101 Stout broke the Top 20. I’m also now very interested in checking out Dimensional Brewing Company , based right across the Mississippi in Dubuque, which edged out P3’s ranking by just a hair for their Gladius Imperial Stout.
Beer Churros with Chocolate Stout Sauce The only thing better than fried bits of sweet, beer-soaked dough (aka beer churros)? Dipping them in a beer-spiked chocolate sauce. Looking to make something sweet for your Valentine this year?
On Friday, The Guardian reported that Diageo the beer brands parent company was forced to ration orders of Guinness to British pubs after an astronomic rise in consumer demand. The article Guinness Rations Supply to British Pubs as the Stout Surges in Popularity appeared first on VinePair. establishments, so U.S.
moorsbeer A post shared by @moorsbeer They’ve been added to our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map. Go buy a few beers at any of these places if you can: Reminder: Only Premium Subscribers are being sent Wednesday label updates via email. Hopleaf’s twelfth-annual Super Stout Sunday is taking place again this year.
Westward Whiskey has introduced its first club release of 2025, Westward x Fort George Brewery Stout Cask. Westward’s latest expression builds on a nine-year history of crafting stout cask finished American single malts , with Fort George Brewery standing as one of its original and most valued collaborators.
Most everyone I know already has their OOOs set for Spring Break and my world’s feeling fairly slow heading into this weekend, but I do have a barrel-aged Odd Side stout with hazelnuts and bacon in my fridge, so I should probably tend to that today, huh? Beats shoveling the driveway.
The beer industry has come a long way in the past 20 plus years. Weve seen bourbon barrel-aging work its magic on stouts , the IPA has birthed multiple substyles , and the number of craft breweries in the U.S. Of course, with more breweries comes more beer, and subsequently, more beer names. Burial Beer Co.:
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.
Wonder if this beer will be served at the Salt Shed? Up next for our Premium Subscribers: The potential revival of Perrin Brewing, the first barrel-aged lemon stout I’ve ever seen, the newest high-ABV stovepipe extension from a major Ohio brewery and all the Lakefront Black Friday info we could scour up.
Sketchbook’s celebration is already on their calendar as well, and while not a true Oktoberfest celebration, I think it’s worth mentioning that the Metropolitan beers from Short Fuse are getting a proper release party (with brats and schnitzel) one week from today. Nice to see. The busy brewery event summer continues this week.
This pub, reopened in November last year, is run by Dubliner Oisín Rogers and Guinness has quickly become a central part of its appeal: More than 60 percent of the beer sold here is Ireland’s famous stout. Guinness is booming in Britain, at the head of a nitro-stout trend that shows little sign of slowing. or Ireland.
Pastry stouts — sweet, saccharine, indulgent beers built on flavors more common to a bakery than a brewery — emerged toward the end of last decade as a coveted, if occasionally maligned, pseudo-style of craft beer. But who can we thank for the advent of the modern marvel that is the pastry stout? Tune in for more.
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.
Today on “Taplines,” Dave Infante is joined by Marcus Bakersville to discuss Black Is Beautiful, a stout recipe that would eventually be brewed by more than 1,600 breweries across the United States and in 22 countries around the world. The beer raised millions of dollars for charity and provided a blueprint for cause beers to come.
Someone’s first stout is often the ubiquitous Irish stout Guinness. But this balanced classic is far from the only option for drinkers who acquire a preference for a stout’s signature maltiness. The stout is a classic beer style that most beer-makers will brew at least once, and may always have on rotation.
2023 was a tough year for the American brewing industry, with overall beer production and imports down 5 percent year-over-year. But despite the doom and gloom surrounding the future of beer, Americans are still drinking their fair share of the stuff. According to beer shipment data and U.S. billion gallons of beer per year.
We tried every 2024 Bourbon County Stout variant. Read on, find out and argue in the comments: The post Our 2024 Bourbon County Stout Reviews & Rankings appeared first on Guys Drinking Beer. What was our favorite? What underwhelmed?
The post-Prohibition American beer landscape had a plethora of dark beers and more lagers than you could shake a stick at. Eventually, Guinness came along and asserted itself as the nitro stout of all nitro stouts in the U.S., Tune in for more.
Stone’s latest concoction is a holiday favorite that takes Imperial Stout and brews it with coffee, chocolate, pasilla peppers, cinnamon, and nutmeg to make a finished product that’s inspired by Mexican hot chocolate. Don’t drink beer?
Take, for example, the Russian imperial stout — a beer style synonymous with the ominous jet-black, velvety, and rich brews that break through the double-digit ABV threshold. Along with sours and IPAs , Russian imperial stouts (RIS) have become one of the most coveted styles on the American craft beer market. And Russian?
For this latest offering, Ian Macleod Distillers has taken their sourced Islay single malt (rumored to come from Lagavulin or Caol Ila) and finished a portion of it in stoutbeer casks. On to the Twisted Stout tasting!
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.
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.
Although most of the work that goes into a good pint of beer happens at the brewery, the final touch comes down to how a bartender dispenses it out of the draft line. And the level of foam, or head, on a beer can be a big factor in how beer enthusiasts perceive their pints. Thats where the side-pull beer faucet comes in.
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.
kicks off their 12 Beers of Christmas series today and goes through Xmas Eve with a wild list of beers. Wanna just drink … really good beer? Half Acre hosts their friends from Side Project this afternoon, and they’re tapping some of SP’s beers along with their stout collab. five milk stouts!
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 Sounds like a great reason to crack open a beer or two. They can still celebrate that GABF medal that they won for their barrel-aged stout Count Humongous Chungus.
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.
Through the month of February, a portion of proceeds from Ole Smoky Peanut Butter Whiskey and Yee-Haw Peanut Butter Stout will be donated to Second Harvest. Ole Smoky’s Peanut Butter Whiskey and Yee-Haw Brewing’s Peanut Butter Stout can be purchased at 6th & Peabody , the 30,000 square-foot entertainment complex at 423 6th Avenue.
The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: 93 Octane does a lot to pair beers with car styles or car-centric stuff (see also: their various oil-weight stouts like the 10W30 ) and you can’t tell me that a muscled-out clown car isn’t the perfect vehicle for something pumpkin spiced.
Not only is Octopi going to start brewing Asahi Ultra Dry for this continent, but per the press release they’ll also apparently be brewing beer for a Czech brand owned by Asahi called Kozel, at a time when Czech-style beers are still in their ascendancy. The Mad Tap , a self-pour beer bar in Tipton, is now open.
READ: The Battle For Boneflower Now for something more fun to talk about: The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: We saw Tonality’s first labels emerge a few months back , but they really went to town this week, with a whole bunch of labels and keg rings sent through the TTB. Fingers crossed for next week.)
I’ve always thought that a debilitating respiratory illness was a weird thing to name a brewery after, but regardless of my feelings, here’s… The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: Y’all, Black Light was right there. Okay, fine, Anderson Valley already took it.
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.
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.
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.):
On Saturday, the Brewers Association (BA) announced the winners of the 2024 Great American Beer Festival. as the country’s largest professional beer competition. Approximately 9,200 beers and ciders were submitted from across all 50 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico. Silver: Groundswell, Single Hill Brewing Co.,
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.
Before we jump into the weekly label roundup, we have to acknowledge a couple of closure announcements that just hit the Chicagoland beer scene. ” The New Illinois Beer Label of the Week: I always love it when a random label comes out from a brewery I don’t see often and isn’t one of the big, interstate distro players.
averieswanson A post shared by @averieswanson Another heartwarmer of an event comes from The Beer Temple , which is hosting a Pouring for Neighbors WNC Hurricane Relief gathering on October 26th with help from Half Acre, Cruz Blanca, Maplewood and others. Go lend a hand and have a few beers and bites. So, that’s nice!
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. Great campfire beer.”
We’re back in a big way this week with: An awesome new FFF label (plus we pulled the total # of 450 North beer labels released last year) A label we thought was a Letterkenny reference A very light pairing of Missouri labels A brewery not named Fat Head’s that seems to think they can release an IPA called Head Hunter And more!
Bira 91 Taproom and Colocal Chocolates have launched unique beer bonbons on Father’s Day. The collaboration showcased the versatility of Bira 91’s Malabar Stout, which pairs exceptionally well with Colocal Chocolates, made with single-origin cacao from Idukki in Kerala.
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