Learn More About Marcea Cazel

Marcea Cazel (she/her) is a culturally immersive travel writer who loves to visit a great brewery. A contributor to publications such as TripSavvy, Trips to Discover and Tinybeans, she writes about cruising, food and beer, Black history, and street art. Marcea also enjoys writing about her home state of Florida and sharing that there’s so much more to do there than just visiting the theme parks. When not writing or traveling, she likes kayaking, reading and drinking a great locally made sour.

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Blue Brew: Kenneth & Masako Mukai’s Brewery Dream Comes True in Kochi

From the big city to the little island.

Up in a little mountain valley in Kochi Prefecture, on Japan’s smallest main island, Shikoku, is the Mukai Craft Brewing / Blue Brew Taproom, a ...

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The 11 Best Breweries in Brooklyn, NY

Best beer from one of the best boroughs.

For several years, the Hop Culture team called New York City home. We still miss venturing out to the bodega in the morning (or late ...

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Everything You Need to Know About International Tripel Day

One...two...three...

A style with a cult-like following in the industry, tripels aren’t usually the first Belgian style that comes to everyone’s mind. But on International Tripel ...

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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in February 2025

Roses are red...

Ambers are red; blueberry sours are blue. In February, we drank a lot of brews. Some from our “Best New Breweries of 2024.” Others from ...

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The 9 Best Breweries to Visit in Dallas, Texas

Everything is just bigger in Texas.

Bold, vibrant, and distinctly Texan, Dallas has been in flux over the past half-decade, morphing from a city with rich southern history to a more ...

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At Vector Brewing, Beer Isn’t Always Linear

Up, up, and away

Somewhere over in the east side of Dallas rests one of the best brew pubs in the country: Vector Brewing. They’ve been knocking it out ...

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Grainbakers: Shaping Community One Loaf and Pint at a Time

I pulled my hands out of the bowl and held them up in front of my face in awe. Covered tip to palm in a ...

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Is ‘Deep Fried Beer’ Real?

As a kid, every year over Labor Day, my family would go to the Minnesota State Fair. The second largest of its kind in the ...

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The 5-Minute Guide to Pairing Pizza and Beer

Two of the finest things in life.

If you’re like us, two of your favorite things in life probably start with pizza and end with beer. Grab a slice, take a bite, ...

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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in January 2025

Happy new beer.

New year, new month, new beers. We’re approaching 2025 with a lot of drive, and it’s already kicking into overdrive. We have a slew of ...

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Amalgam Brewing: The Tiny Tank Engine That Could

The sum of all its parts.

Tucked away in the corner of one of the most respected lager breweries in the entire country is a tiny tank brewing some of the ...

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Varsity Brews: 10 Questions With Gali Hernandez

A new Hop Culture Q&A series.

We’re not surprised that we included three people involved with the Michael James Jackson Foundation for Brewing & Distilling (MJF) on our list of “The ...

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What the Czech!? Why Cohesion Brewing Is America’s Best Czech-Inspired Brewery

Our two dimpled Czech mugs, one full of pale, clear gold liquid and the other a dark lager, clinked together over a sign in the ...

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At Brown Girl’s Brew, You Can Eat Your Cake…And Drink It Too

A delicious story.

Carrot cake, lemon pound cake, key lime pie, banana pudding, and German chocolate cake—all sound more like items in a bakery case than beers on ...

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My Beloved Community: How Metier Brewing Company Became One of our Top Breweries of 2024

Brewing damn good beer.

I’m standing before a large blackboard with the words “Give A Beer, Take A Beer.” Tacked all across the surface are Polarids with captions like ...

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