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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024

VinePair

This may sound like a backhanded compliment, but while craft beer sales continue to slow, the situation isn’t nearly as grim as it was this time last year. craft beer sales totalled $4.7 Circana compiled the sales data into a list revealing the top 10 best-selling craft beer brands going into 2024.

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North Czar State: How Russian Imperial Stout Became the Sovereign Beer of Minnesota

VinePair

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. Old Rasputin, from Fort Bragg, Calif.,

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No Longer Just For Macro Lagers, Craft Beer Is Finally Embracing Rice

VinePair

Rice beer has roots in civilization’s earliest fermented beverages, and is a key part of some of the world’s top-selling beer brands. ( But despite — and in part because of — its mass-market appeal, rice has largely been overlooked by the craft beer industry. His Rice Kolsch is one of the brewery’s flagship beers.

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5 to Try: Kölsch-Style Ales

Imbibe Magazine

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. Having a low-alcohol beer as your flagship is definitely more desirable [than a double IPA],” says co-owner Jeff Huss.

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This Week's Beer News: Thousands of New Untappd Awards

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

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. This year’s official craft beer sponsor for the Cleveland Guardians is Fat Head’s.

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This Week's Beer News: Good "Vibes" Only.

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All of them have been gathered together for a project that’s the brainchild of Charolette Converse that will see 113 women, non-binary or trans participants (as of publish time) joining together to not just make a one-off beer, but to create a community to “network, educate and inspire their fellow women in the craft beer industry.”

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This Week's Beer News: Asahi Acquiring Octopi Edition.

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

ICBG ED Ray Stout went on WBBM radio to talk about this month’s My Illinois Beer Fridge promotion. This is a cool idea — a combination craft beer taproom and record store opened up in Lisle called the Crooked Arm Vinyl & Tap. WGN-TV paid a visit to Banging Gavel’s new taproom.

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