For These Brewers, Craft Beer Requires a Full Rebrand
PUNCH
AUGUST 20, 2024
Craft beer brewers like Stillwater Artisanal are making “postmodern”beers brewed for flavor instead of specific styles like lager or IPA.
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PUNCH
AUGUST 20, 2024
Craft beer brewers like Stillwater Artisanal are making “postmodern”beers brewed for flavor instead of specific styles like lager or IPA.
PUNCH
OCTOBER 24, 2024
What is “American IPA”? Craft beer experts and brewers weigh in on the substyle and how it differs from West Coast– or New England–style.
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VinePair
OCTOBER 30, 2024
Today, his legend swims on in another historical artifact, the English-style Commodore Perry IPA from Great Lakes Brewing Co. To attract a broader audience of IPA drinkers, Great Lakes leaned into its geography to create a balanced, subtly sweet, not-too-bitter Midwestern IPA. Bell’s Two Hearted IPA is a bellwether.)
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JUNE 7, 2024
The amount of 10th anniversary events emerging over the last few weeks have made me wonder: Was May-June 2014 the busiest time in Chicago craft beer history? Waypost Brewing is hosting an evening of kolsch service in their beer garden on June 14. Pilot Project announced their launch of a new NA brand called YEARS.
PUNCH
APRIL 1, 2025
The best craft beer breweries in 2025, including taprooms specializing in lagers, IPAs, saisons and pale ales, according to experts.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 22, 2024
Since we mentioned a bird-related event up top, it seems fitting to pass along this new Hidden Hand beer announcement, for a foeder lager called Waterfowl. We mentioned the Untappd awards on Monday, but Mikerphone brought home some hardware from the Best Of Craft Beer awards this week as well, taking Gold for their Sir Blends-A-Lot stout.
PUNCH
APRIL 4, 2024
The best craft beer breweries in 2024, from a minimalist operation serving lagers to the brewers making IPAs that spotlight regional flavors.
VinePair
AUGUST 29, 2024
Most craft brewers couldn’t imagine life without IPA. But at the Spoetzl Brewery in Shiner, Texas, the vast majority of sales come from a very different beer style. Seven out of every 10 beers we sell is Shiner Bock,” says Nick Weiland, the brewery’s brand director. So how do these regional beer favorites come about?
VinePair
MAY 5, 2024
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.
Just Drinks
MAY 14, 2024
The once-dynamic North American craft beer market is now stagnant. A lack of innovation in a sector awash with hazy IPAs has been blamed.
VinePair
JUNE 25, 2024
For pretty much the last two decades, the IPA has been the No. 1 craft beer style in America, if not the world. There have been black IPAs , white IPAs , red IPAs , cold IPAs , session IPAs , brut IPAs , even glitter IPAs. directive on the upper rim still hits like few others.
VinePair
JUNE 11, 2024
With nearly every conceivable IPA variant, from cold to milkshake to hoppy absurdity , and stouts barrel-aged and pastrified to the nth degree, it seems that craft beer has reached a point of all-time stagnation. This grim state of affairs begs the question: Has craft beer gotten boring?
VinePair
OCTOBER 17, 2024
And while the sheer number of bitter brews on the market right now might be an annoyance to some , the IPA isn’t likely to fall out of favor any time soon. According to the Chicago-based data firm IRI , IPAs are the primary drivers of growth in the craft beer industry and account for 44.37
VinePair
JANUARY 29, 2024
The earliest beers made thousands of years ago were a kind of porridge or beer soup made from cereal grains. So, in collaboration with nearby Intrinsic Brewing , Gutierrez started designing soup-inspired beers. There was a tom kha hazy IPA, based on the Thai coconut soup. I mean, these beers are just interesting.”
Cheers
MAY 22, 2024
Founders All Day IPA, originally launched in 2009 and today one of the leading craft beers , has undergone a rebranding. The beer itself remains unchanged. The post Founders All Day IPA Gets a New Look appeared first on Cheers. This is the product’s first brand refresh since 2011.
VinePair
AUGUST 7, 2024
And though people love to loathe them, IPAs are the current bread and butter of the American craft brewing industry. Part of the style’s success are its numerous substyles, which have allowed IPAs to straddle nearly every major beer category on the market. There’s very little that the IPA hasn’t been able to achieve.
VinePair
JANUARY 27, 2025
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. Other Half Brewing Co.:
VinePair
JUNE 20, 2024
The broad category of IPAs contains some of the most popular beers in the United States. Among them are hazy IPAs, the juicy, ultra-hoppy brews that captured the attention of American craft beer drinkers — and may never let go. Keep reading for picks from the beer pros. appeared first on VinePair.
VinePair
OCTOBER 23, 2024
New Belgium has played a major role in shaping the craft beer industry as we know it. Then came the now-infamous Voodoo Ranger, a rebrand of the brand’s Ranger IPA. The original 2017 line consisted of just two beers: the Voodoo Ranger IPA and Imperial IPA. Voodoo Ranger Electric Thunderclap IPA ABV: 7.5%
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
JULY 19, 2024
Get 20% off for 1 year Last night’s birthday beers included a Gnosis Brewing Gnack lager, a Farm Club Schwarzbier and a Hop Butcher Grid IPA. This year’s Ravenswood On Tap craft beer and music fest takes place tomorrow and Sunday, and the poster for this year’s event is awesome. Like craft beer?
Chilled Magazine
JULY 17, 2024
Summer is a great time for lighter, refreshing beers. And while it’s tough to beat the appeal of a classic pilsner or hoppy, piney IPA, one of the best choices for the summer months is a refreshing, balanced wheat beer. Keep scrolling to see the best wheat beers to stock up this summer.
Imbibe Magazine
APRIL 24, 2024
The striking flowers of woolly bluecurls, an evergreen shrub, lend a mix of candied lavender, mint, and pine to Island Brewing ’s HopLiner IPA. This is a floral beer, so we add flowers to it,” says Draughtsmen Aleworks co-founder Scott Stefan. Botanical gardens are joining forces with breweries on herbaceous beers.
Imbibe Magazine
OCTOBER 9, 2024
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.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
APRIL 26, 2024
The World Beer Cup awards were announced Wednesday night and I’m always thrilled when the most competitive award goes to a Midwestern brewery — even more so when it’s one of my favorites in Chicago. Old Irving Brewery’s Beezer beat out 325 other beers to earn the Gold Medal for Juicy/Hazy IPA.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 15, 2024
” Love these tasting notes for Twisted Hippo’s recently-re-released IPA. Congrats to the Beer Temple , victors of the recent Mild Masters competition with over 400 pints of mild served over one weekend. Banging Gavel’s gotcha. “Chico-in-the-late-90s malt bill attending a grapefruit-pine-cone party.”
Imbibe Magazine
JUNE 10, 2024
Pacific Northwest-based Alaska Airlines serves Straightaway canned cocktails and Stumptown coffee from Portland, Oregon, as well as a custom-brewed IPA from Seattle’s Fremont Brewing and the nonalcoholic Electro Lime Cerveza from Northern California’s Best Day Brewing.
VinePair
AUGUST 14, 2024
craft beer has been around so long that it’s experienced several significant booms and several subsequent busts. Start a brewery, crank out some IPAs , and you, too, could become a millionaire! Their Pale Ale might be the most iconic craft beer ever made; their Celebration IPA one of the most seasonally beloved.
VinePair
JANUARY 27, 2025
At a craft beer bar in Brooklyn called Queue Beer , all of the 24 taps feature premium and hard-to-find beers but one tap faucet stands apart from the rest. Change of Pace The beers 4.5 percent Bud Lights and Michelob Ultras of the world, but still low also makes it an ideal change-of-pace beer.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 8, 2024
<shakes fist at cloud> Back in December we showed Premium Subscribers a label for an “all grey everywhere ipa” from Fair State , which made us remark that they might want to invest in one of those sad lamps. Well, maybe this beer, called Sad Lamp from Modist, could also do the job. Dancing until 1am on a Wednesday?
Just Drinks
MAY 20, 2024
Brooklyn Brewery CEO Eric Ottaway talks to Just Drinks about the west African grain fonio, the commoditisation of IPAs and NPD.
VinePair
OCTOBER 2, 2024
When the American craft beer boom took off in the 1990s, it didn’t take long before we got brews that were hopped to high heaven. But in the grand scheme of beer history, hops are actually a relatively recent addition. When the Bavarian beer purity law (a.k.a. They were trying to be more proper and civilized,” Hunt says.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
FEBRUARY 12, 2024
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.”
PubClub
DECEMBER 18, 2023
Photo: Original 40 Brewing Company San Diego has a pair of new craft beers, one of them a 9.0 AVB (alcohol-by-volume) double IPA. The Original 40 Brewing Company has released Big Tings West Coast Double IPA, along with a much more modest 5.2 Special beer-pairing or wine-pairing dinners are also available.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
FEBRUARY 23, 2024
Almost exactly two years to the day after the fire that destroyed their brewery, Twisted Hippo released a Kokua session IPA whose proceeds will go toward the ongoing Maui wildfire relief efforts, saying “We hope that in doing what we do, we can be of some comfort to others as so many have been to us.” ” Wow.
VinePair
OCTOBER 10, 2024
So, we consulted Beer Advocate’s list of top-rated beers from breweries in all 50 states and Washington, D.C., As a baseline, the only beers that were considered were those with over 100 ratings on the platform. In what will likely come as no surprise, IPAs — the most popular craft beer style — claim the top spot in 21 states.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
APRIL 19, 2024
Should you choose to spend your 4/20 doing 4/20 kind of things, the Marz Brewing Mothership is hosting their Dank Magic Market , where they’ll be launching their hemp-infused Stupid Soda and pouring some dank IPAs as well as hosting some local artists and marketers. See you soon, Caleb. cans of framboise and kriek.
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
APRIL 5, 2024
In case you took a break from the internet on April Fools Day, here are a few of the funnier 1 ones we spotted from around the Midwest: The Cicerone Certification Program held a “beer quiz” to see if people could name the Zima Clear IPA. On a similar note, Alarmist announced a “clear hazy IPA.”
Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News
MARCH 29, 2024
Mikerphone had a collab-heavy week, working with the forthcoming Goose Salt Shed on a hazy DDH DIPA , and also on a West Coast style IPA with Torzala and Steel Tank up in Wisconsin. And now, I’ve decided it’s… Wow. That’s a lot of stuff going on.
VinePair
SEPTEMBER 26, 2024
The beer business is constantly evolving. It long ago departed from European styles to the great American lager, and then again straight into the craft beer era. And after the initial boom of West Coast IPA, the cloudy New England style came along to dominate the scene. Ipswich, Mass.
VinePair
APRIL 30, 2024
In the dawn of the post-Covid landscape, the beer industry was poised to see what its new normal would shape up to be. Craft beer sales have been slipping, and the tried-and-true path of “instant profit ahead” by cranking out IPAs isn’t working like it used to. Unfortunately, thus far, it’s been a whole lot of nothing.
Spiritz
APRIL 30, 2024
In fact, even though awareness about the many varieties of beer currently available is quite low across both urban and rural India, there is an increasing percentage of consumers who are no longer content with just one type of beer. These styles are gaining popularity amoung younger, more adventurous consumers.
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. ” —Joe Stange, managing editor at Craft Beer & Brewing Blindhouse Beer Roanoke, Va.
Cheers
OCTOBER 22, 2024
Craft beer sales have slowed with the rise of too many breweries, consumers not drinking as much beer, and those that do drink beer opting for less-expensive brews. And with all the great beers out there, it is fun to try different ones and enjoy a variety, especially those that complement our food menu,” he says.
Imbibe Magazine
JULY 10, 2024
Monkey Club From the beer-and-shot specials at Bob & Barbara’s in Rittenhouse Square, to the 75-cent hot dogs at McGlinchey’s , Philadelphia dive bars are legendary. You can get cheap beer and even fancy craft beers for under $7,” he says. Monkey Club is Ducos’ go-to in Fishtown. It’s a true neighborhood dive.
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