Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

OCTOBER 7, 2024

One of Chicago’s original craft beers is coming back. We broke the news of its discontinuation back in early 2019 , calling it “the end of an era” as Goose was pivoting to beers like Old Man Grumpy and Next Coast IPA. Earlier today, Goose Island made it official : Honkers Ale is returning to package format.

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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. ” 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.

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VinePair

MARCH 14, 2024

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.

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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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VinePair

JUNE 5, 2024

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.

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Drinkhacker

APRIL 3, 2024

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?

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VinePair

JANUARY 17, 2024

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.

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Drinkhacker

MARCH 30, 2024

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 stout beer casks. On to the Twisted Stout tasting!

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VinePair

OCTOBER 10, 2024

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.

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VinePair

MAY 22, 2024

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.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 13, 2024

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!

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VinePair

DECEMBER 7, 2023

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?

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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2024

Among them are some of the more hype-y styles shaking up the industry since the craft beer boom. Some people scoff at these popular beers, while others line up to snag the first tastes of them. The beer industry had a difficult year in 2023, and perhaps some of its stalwarts are beginning to feel a bit stale.

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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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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. Luckily, most beer these days comes in cans, so lightstrike isn’t as much of a threat as it once was.

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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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Beer IPA Stout Pilsner 136

VinePair

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Putting unorthodox ingredients and adjuncts into beer is nothing new. Pumpkin beer has marked spooky season since the early ‘80s and the pastry stout boom of the mid-2010s saw everything from brownies and marshmallows to coffee and ancho chiles get added to brews. We’ve actually tried this one, and it’s pretty damn good.

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Chilled Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2024

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.

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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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 8, 2024

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.

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VinePair

DECEMBER 9, 2024

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.

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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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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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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 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.

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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. Great campfire beer.”

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 3, 2024

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!

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

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.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Welcome to another New Label Wednesday with fresh looks at new beers from Minnesota to Missouri, over to Ohio and all spaces in between. Oh, and I apologize for calling their Regeneration Station beer by the wrong name on Monday. Premium Subscribers: Believe it or not, this isn’t the only Indian-inspired beer in this email.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

MAY 22, 2024

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.)

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JUNE 5, 2024

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.

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 19, 2024

This Friday email has never been an events catch-all (otherwise you’d stop scrolling after the third screen of Beer Yogas and Trivia Nights) but there’s a ton of cool stuff happening over the next four weeks. Outdoor beers and oysters? Sling bags of malt, move kegs, get shredded, then drink a beer. Yes please.

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VinePair

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And no matter what your typical drink of choice is, the undisputed champ of beverages to wash down those wings is beer. After all, salty foods beg for a crisp, refreshing sidekick — think about how burger-and-beer combos are traditionally served with a Budweiser or a Miller. brown ales are like the less burly brother of stouts.

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Spiritz

JUNE 20, 2024

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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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

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

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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