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More Than Just IPA: Across America, Craft Beer Has Surprising Pockets of Regionality

VinePair

Most craft brewers couldn’t imagine life without IPA. In those pockets of regionality, amber lagers, Scotch Ales, fruited sours, traditional beers, and other recipes are almost as popular as IPAs. I mean, I love IPAs. I mean, I love IPAs. In some states, IPA does count for as much as 70 percent of craft beer sales.

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Better Drinks Take Flight

Imbibe Magazine

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.

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This Week's Beer News: Weed Edition + ICBW Pint Glass Preview

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

In partnership with Boelter, $1 from each glass will be donated to the ICBG to support their mission of education promotion and advocacy. ” Visit Chicago Southland has a new mobile passport program called “Chicago Southland Suds Buds” to promote visits to 14 breweries around the south suburbs. Coming (in 2025?)

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The Return of Honkers: This Week's Beer News

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We broke the news of its discontinuation back in early 2019 , calling it “the end of an era” as Goose was pivoting to beers like Old Man Grumpy and Next Coast IPA. Craft Brewing Business talks with the team behind the Founders All-Day IPA brand refresh and new ad campaign. Leigh’s Brewing Co.

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Light Years: Has Britain Finally Fallen for Low-Calorie Beer?

VinePair

It helped them to promote the brand to a younger audience, Holmes says, one that shared their focus on health. lager specialists Utopian and, in the Midlands, Round Corner , with whom they’ve recently created a new Hazy IPA. Lowrise’s new Hazy IPA offers a good example of where low-calorie beer in the U.K.

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The VinePair Podcast: Varietal Wine Still Reigns Supreme

VinePair

The impulse to promote lesser-known juice isnt unique to the wine industry, but producers embracing and acting upon that impulse certainly is. Take the beer industry by comparison: Some brewers may want to make funky saisons and offbeat pilsner styles, but they still make IPAs because thats what the people want.

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

Guys Drinking Beer - Beer News

Is this an indication of a pivot away from hazy IPAs and pastry stouts? Apparently he bailed on a bunch of other scheduled promotional events though.) More coverage on MobCraft’s (Not So) Horrible City IPA came from OnMilwaukee and the Journal-Sentinel , among others.

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