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This Week's Craft Beer Events & Socials

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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. Saint Errant says yes you are !

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The 10 Best-Selling Craft Beer Brands of 2024

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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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The VinePair Podcast: Has Craft Beer Gotten Boring?

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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?

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Wait, Russian Imperial Stouts Aren’t Russian?

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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.

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The Evolution of the IPA, from 19th Century England to Now

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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.

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

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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.”

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This Week's Pre-Paddy's Day Craft Beer Events & Socials

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” 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. Tankbeer, their newly-released year-round lager , is already Hopewell’s #1 taproom beer.