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This Week's Beer News: 2024 BCS Variants Officially Announced

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We now know what this year’s Bourbon County Stout variants will be. There was a BCS Cordial Stout (with chocolate, cocoa nibs and Amarena cherries), an intriguing sounding Upside Down Cake Stout (with pineapple, vanilla, brown sugar and Maraschino cherries) and this Proprietors label for a BCS Junior Mint. Or Andes Candy.

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The Enduring Obsession With the Two-Part Guinness Pour

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Long-time Guinness ambassador Ryan Wagner estimates that 90 percent of American bartenders know that if a customer orders a pint of Guinness Draught Stout, there’s something different they have to do. Allow it to settle for 86 seconds then top it off, yielding the perfect pint of dry Irish stout in, oh, I don’t know, 119.5

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10 Guinness Cocktails to Upgrade Your St. Patrick’s Day

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The “perfect” two-part pou r is argued and obsessed over by stout enthusiasts worldwide, and for many, Guinness is the only beer they care to drink. Patrick’s day, we say it’s time to bend the rules and explore how Guinness cocktails can turn another stout-soaked afternoon chasing down a parade into a full-fledged soirée. But this St.

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This Week's Beer News: Metro on a Short Fuse

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Is this an indication of a pivot away from hazy IPAs and pastry stouts? I only learned of its existence while scanning ILCC brewery license documentation (because that’s how I party) but I was never able to get to it on any of my trips to the city. Like, anywhere. That brewery is Pho No. 1 Brewing Co.

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Premium Irish Whiskey Created With Two Michelin Star Chef For Journey Of Taste

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The team really pushed the boundaries of creation with these spirits, working with casks previously filled with a range of liquids, from Cognac and Brunello to Imperial Stout.”Who The sets also include additional booklets documenting the creation of the whiskies themselves.

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10 Things You Should Know About New Riff Distilling

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To determine whether or not the water would be suitable for whiskey distillation, the co-founders studied historical documents and consulted with hydrologists and water chemists at the University of Kentucky. New Riff produces gin made from wild-foraged Kentucky botanicals.

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