Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

Intrigued by the growing presence of Slovenian wine on store shelves and wine lists, we dove into the category in our March/April 2024 issue. Daniel Lukin-Beck, general manager of Vinum Imports , which has specialized in wines from the country for more than 20 years, offered an introduction in our “5 to Try” column.

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VinePair

JANUARY 28, 2024

Read on for the wine and beer pastry pairings you shouldn’t miss. Croissant and Czech Pilsner Credit: Mahyar Motebassem via Unsplash & ibWR111 – stock.adobe.com You may be surprised to see that our suggested pairing for croissants is not a French wine.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

In 2017, she founded the Hue Society to champion inclusivity in the wine industry and was named an Imbibe 75 Person to Watch in 2020. Since then, she’s continued to rack up accolades, such as VinePair ’s 2022 Advocate of the Year and Wine Enthusiast ’s 2023 Social Visionary of the Year. But it just doesn’t happen,” she explains.

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Imbibe Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Despite its ancient roots and modern popularity, orange wine still lacks a legal definition and currently remains categorized under white wine. Sommelier Doreen Winkler leaned into the former, launching the first orange wine subscription service in 2019. I became obsessed with orange wine over a decade ago,” she says.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 1, 2024

You may have noticed the increasing prevalence of wines from regions like Galicia or Catalunya on wine lists, or even the spate of locales leaning fully Spanish. In our March/April issue , Jennifer Fiedler explores the growing wave of Spanish wine bars and restaurants. The following are Spanish wine bars on our radar.

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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

AUGUST 20, 2024

A red wine grape with centuries of history throughout the Americas, Mission goes by several names. Next-generation Mission wines are a diverse lot, spanning zippy rosés, rich reds, and light-bodied, ruby-hued wines that are especially refreshing when chilled. 21.95, empirewine.com Scythian Wine Co.

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 12, 2024

If there is any place better to enjoy a crisp, refreshing beer than out in nature, I haven’t been there. And that is, fittingly, how I plan to enjoy my four-pack of Hopworks ‘ new Organic West Coast IPA brewed for the Earth to Beer campaign. For Earth Day, or any day, go drink some beer outside.

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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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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2024

The caliber of many widely available NA sparkling wines has improved dramatically in recent years, making it easier than ever to pop bottles everyone can enjoy. It has the most wine-centric nose of the bottles we tasted, with white grape juice and tart lemon rind followed by faint floral and red berry notes. . $44,

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One of our 2024 Imbibe 75 Places to Watch, The Ruby Fruit —a buzzed-about restaurant and wine bar in Los Angeles’ Silver Lake neighborhood and the city’s first lesbian bar in years—is all about cultivating a welcoming, community-minded space. Terah Wine Co. Terah Wine Co. ’s Refreshing and light, playful yet serious.”

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 9, 2024

Odds are, your familiarity with Cava, the sparkling wine of Spain’s Catalonia region, may simply be as a cheap bottle of bubbles. Producers of the wine are pushing the regulating body, D.O. Cava, for stricter rules for quality, aiming to improve the wine’s global image and subsequent value.

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Imbibe Magazine

JULY 3, 2024

An advanced sommelier and alum of spots like New York City’s Eleven Madison Park, de Pano opened her wine shop in late 2022 and highlights terroir-driven wines, with a particular affinity for low alcohol and high acid. Who wants to crush a 16 percent bottle of wine when the sun’s blazing?” And clocking in at 10.5

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Imbibe Magazine

APRIL 2, 2024

Dave O’Brien’s wine-focused vermouth has its origin story in a great vacation. “On Among the many aspects of Basque culture that O’Brien enjoyed was Txakoli , the dry, white wine made from the Hondarrabi Zuri grape. (A A rosé version from a related grape is more prominent on the export market than it is in the wine’s home region.)

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Imbibe Magazine

OCTOBER 18, 2024

What might be more surprising is how much of a problem glass presents for wine, an industry deeply connected to the climate. I’ve seen estimates that glass is responsible for anywhere from 29% to 50% of wine’s carbon impact. As a result, ecologically minded producers are experimenting with new ways to package wines.

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Chilled Magazine

JULY 2, 2024

Rum Sorel Mule Ingredients 1 Part Sorel 2 Parts Dry Ginger Beer* Squeeze of Lime Preparation In glass of choice, fill 3/4 of the way with ice; add Sorel; squeeze one lime wedge and drop into glass; top with chilled ginger beer. Uncle Waithley’s Ginger Beer Preparation Top with 3 oz. Uncle Waithley’s Ginger Beer.

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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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

DECEMBER 16, 2024

Their “Year in Beer” recap post made it official: More breweries closed than opened this year, dropping to 9,736 by their count. revbrewchicago A post shared by @revbrewchicago I’ve updated our Chicagoland Craft Beer Map , and that was a real bummer of a “delete” button to have to press. No Kaiser Tiger ?

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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

JANUARY 17, 2024

After a slow start to the year, the imagery ice floe has shattered, the label log jam has been broken up, and we thankfully have a new wave of beer offerings to look at this week. Okay, probably more like the TTB came back from holiday PTO.)

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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 7, 2024

Most of us who love alcohol beverages enjoy attending tastings at expos, restaurants, wine and liquor stores to taste and discuss aromas amd flavors of beverages. Many attendees also belong to beer, wine, or whiskey clubs. Beer glasses: Certain shapes have become identified with specific beers since the medieval era.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 24, 2024

. | Photos by Luca Savettiere In America, where we romanticize independence, and thus independent winemakers, we tend to belittle cooperatives, thinking of them as just bulk wine producers. But Italy’s cooperatives make more than half of the country’s wine, much of it offering quality and value. But our focus stays in Sicily.

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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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Imbibe Magazine

AUGUST 21, 2024

While wine making in Oregon may conjure notions of bucolic countryside and the verdant Willamette Valley, the operation at Division Winemaking Company looks a little different. Founded in 2010 by Thomas Monroe and Kate Norris, Division crafts their expressive, low-intervention wines in the heart of southeast Portland.

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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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VinePair

JULY 9, 2024

Despite its location in the heart of America’s most prestigious wine region, the city of Napa didn’t land on many people’s radars 10 years ago. No one is more attuned to the changes than Aubrey Bailey and Taylor Domin, the owners of Cadet Wine and Beer. Instead, wine (and beer) are the foundations on which it was built.

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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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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

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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Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

APRIL 8, 2024

It’s also the final day of relevancy for the many eclipse-themed beers that have emerged over the last few months. See ‘ya in 2044, all you beers named Path of Totality! This year’s Iowa Beer Bracket came down to beers from Big Grove and Singlespeed. ” Apparently that’s verboten.

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VinePair

JANUARY 23, 2024

From microbrew soaks to full-on sudsy retreats, beer spas were once a stateside novelty and a travel wellness destination for those visiting Eastern Europe. French and Zouaoui became enamored with the concept of beer spas after visiting one in Poland during their 14-month, 25-country travels in 2017.

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Chilled Magazine

MARCH 6, 2024

Ginger Beer 2 oz. Cava or Prosecco Preparation In a shaker with ice, add Triple Dog Irish Whiskey, lemon juice, simple syrup and ginger beer. Top with sparkling wine, and garnish with lemon wheel and fresh mint. Photo by Tucker + Hossler Photography Rum , Sparkling Wine Sammy O’Hagar’s Pot o’ Gold Ingredients 2 oz.

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Imbibe Magazine

JUNE 11, 2024

When the team behind Oxalis , a Michelin-starred restaurant in Brooklyn, opened Clinton Hill wine bar Place des Fêtes in 2022, beverage director Piper Kristensen knew exactly what he didn’t want to do: re-create the same-old, same-old bistronomy-style French-heavy list. Spanish wine—even great Spanish wine—isn’t new to stateside customers.

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Imbibe Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2024

Averie Swanson is one of the most respected brewers of mixed-fermentation beer in the country, yet she’s never had a brick-and-mortar location to call her own. Fans have been able to find Swanson’s creations in Chicago and at various festivals and events, but Keeping Together beers demand a dedicated place.

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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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Chilled Magazine

JUNE 19, 2024

Liqueur , Sparkling Wine Sparkling Pear Ingredients 2 oz of Noces Royales Cognac and Pear Liqueur 1/2 oz elderflower liqueur Champagne Hibiscus tea to garnish Preparation In a shaker, add ice, Noces Royales, and elderflower liqueur. Top off with ginger beer and garnish with fresh mango and rosemary. Smoke the cocktail with cherry wood.

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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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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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