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Best New Breweries of 2024
New kids on the block.
Every year, the number of breweries opening in the U.S. creeps slightly higher. According to the Brewers Association, 9,906 breweries currently operate in the country (setting us less than a ...
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The 19 Best Beers We Drank in 2024
Drink up.
Here’s a fun fact: In 2024, Hop Culture Senior Content Editor Grace Lee-Weitz drank 534 unique beers from 211 different breweries in 117 styles across ...
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The Top Places We Traveled for Beer in 2024
Where in the world?
Over the last 365ish days, we’ve enjoyed some serious travel just for beer. Undoubtedly, discovering new places, beer cities, and meccas for craft is one ...
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The 11 Best Breweries of 2024
Bigger, better, beerier?
Every year, we think this list will get harder and harder to make. But then we get off our butts to drink at incredible beer ...
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Best Hidden Gem Places to Drink in 2024
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What does it mean to be a hidden-gem place to drink? We feel like the answer to that question is like watching the technical round ...
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Best New Breweries of 2024
New kids on the block.
Every year, the number of breweries opening in the U.S. creeps slightly higher. According to the Brewers Association, 9,906 breweries currently operate in the country ...
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Are You Brewing Gold? Enter The Most Prestigious Beer Competition in the ‘World’
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One of the world’s most prestigious and esteemed craft beer competitions, the World Beer Cup® (WBC), has celebrated the best in beer every year since ...
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The 20 Best Brewery Memberships, Bottle Societies, and Beer Clubs
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You all loved this piece so much the past couple of years that we’ve decided to keep updating it yearly, adding new brewery memberships and ...
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Top 10 Beers We Drank in November 2024
Stouts...lots of stouts.
Last month, we drank a lot of beer, traveling from Bellevue to Yakima Valley, WA, for the hop harvest and finally to Denver for the ...
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The Best Homebrewing Gifts of 2024
Elevate your craft!
While we’ve already covered our favorite beer glasses, beer fridges, and best beer merch of the year, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. How many ...
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The Best Beer Gifts for the Holidays 2024
On the first night of the holidays my beer lover gave to me...
Do you love beer? Silly question, right? You’re reading Hop Culture, so you obviously enjoy beer to some degree. But let’s dig a little further. ...
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Best Beer Fridges of 2024
Fun with fridges!
Working for a beer magazine has its perks. We love trying new beers that brewers across the country send us. It’s one of the best ...
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Beers We’re Thankful for This Thanksgiving
We give thanks for these influential and life changing beers.
Let’s be honest: This year has been another one full of twists and turns. But as we round the corner to December, we’ve decided to ...
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