What Is a Kriek Beer?

We're cheery for cherry beer!
One of my first experiences with a Kriek was at The Sovereign, the Belgian beer bar in Washington, D.C. I was afforded the chance to ...
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Top 12 Beers We Drank in August

Drinking in the dog days of summer.
Summer is almost over. Let’s just get those words out of the way now. Honestly, we’re kind of excited to put these dog days behind ...
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The Cult of PBR

A blue-ribbon winner.
The first beer I ever shotgunned. The 30-pack I took to all my off-campus parties during my senior year in college. And the beer at ...
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The 11 Best Double Hazies Available in Most Stores Right Now

Graphic courtesy of Firestone Walker Brewing Company
Amped up, double dosed, sky high, revved the engine, sent to the moon, double the trouble, imperial or double hazies send us places we can ...
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What Exactly Is a Kettle Sour?

Breaking down the tart, lactic sour beers.
Sour beer: a term many American beer drinkers have used to describe beer negatively for decades. Although popular globally for centuries with the likes of ...
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9 Things You Didn’t Know About Half Acre’s Daisy Cutter

The beer that will never be pushing daisies.
“I’ll take a Daisy.” Half Acre Beer Co. Co-Founder Gabriel Magliaro can’t tell you how many hundreds of times he’s heard that refrain when someone ...
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The 5-Minute Guide to IPA Food Pairing

Hoppy meet tasty.
You like food, and you like IPAs. So why not enhance both by pairing them harmoniously together? Here’s my five-minute guide to IPA food pairing. ...
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Duck Sauce, Duke’s Mayo, & Durham – Catching Up With DSSOLVR

Surrealist beers that melt your face.
Even Vince Tursi and Mike Semenec, co-founders of one of North Carolina’s most highly stylized and sought-after breweries, DSSOLVR, probably didn’t imagine mayonnaise and Chinese ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated American IPAs

Hop Hop Hooray!
Happy National IPA Day! You may have already noticed, but we’ve been giving hops their humble (laugh) due for the past couple of weeks to ...
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We Asked 13 Brewers: What Was Your First IPA?

Hoppy, hoppy, hoppy!
Do we love anything more than an origin story? Especially when discovering the first IPA some of the best brewers around the country drank. Everyone’s ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in July 2024

Summer standouts.
We’re deep into the throes of summer now. So, if you’re like us, you’re taking some summer snapshots of moments to keep in your brain ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial New England-Style/Hazy IPAs

Juice for days.
You don’t need us to tell you that hazy IPAs are the darling of beer, the twinkle in everyone’s eye, the bee’s knees, the cat’s ...
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What Is Umqombothi? The Thousands Year Old African Beer Style

An untold beer history.
Mix sorghum and maize with warm water. Let the mixture sit overnight, bringing it to a boil the following morning. Add a starter—often more sorghum ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Smoothie/Pastry Sours

We like to eat dessert first, even with beer. Continued innovation of the pastry stout saw brewers pack as many candy-like ingredients and inspiration into ...
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What Is an Italian Pilsner?

Yes, the Italians make more than just pizza and wine.
The humble pilsner can seem simple, but beneath those golden ripples and frothy head is a beer that can be cunningly complex. Ask around, and ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated American Light Lagers

Perfect for the Fourth of July!
We’ve come a long way from filling our red solo cups with that American light lager. And while we no longer play flip cup with ...
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