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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
Things got very SPOOKY in Boston this weekend. We had a great time partying with Beantown during Spooky Brews. There was plenty of delicious beer, ...
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Ranking the 2018 Bourbon County Releases

A sneak peek at this year's Bourbon County releases.
Fall has arrived in New York City bringing cooler temperatures, changing leaves, and–most importantly–the beginning of stout season. And with stout season comes 2018’s Bourbon ...
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Here’s What to Drink at Spooky Brews Boston

The official beer list for Spooky Brews Boston.
Spooky Brews is just a few days away! We hope everyone has picked out their costumes. We’re busy decorating ours right now (as a reminder, ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
It’s another busy week at Hop Culture. Last Wednesday, we dropped a bunch of spooky goodies for y’all, including the official Spooky Brews teku and ...
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What Exactly Is an Oktoberfest Beer?

The history behind the annual festival celebrating German beer.
The very first Oktoberfest “fest”, not yet called by the name, was to celebrate the 1810 wedding of Crown Prince Ludwig of Bavaria and Princess ...
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Hop Culture Staff’s Favorite Halloween Candy and Beer Pairings

Get spooky!
There’s nothing quite like Halloween candy. After spending hours trick-or-treating in your sweaty costume, you’d return home with all your friends and count up your ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
I played hooky the first few days of last week to attend Shacksbury‘s annual Harvest Festival. We ate some incredible food prepared by Dan Amighi, ...
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Why Does Barrel-Aging Make Beer and Whiskey Taste So Good?

Juice worth the squeeze.
People argue over who first aged beer in barrels, but no one doubts the near alchemical magic wood has on liquid. Something special happens in ...
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The 15 Best Beers to Drink This Fall

It's fall, y'all.
The days are getting shorter, Halloween parties are being planned, and I’ve broken out my jean jacket. That all means one thing: It’s fall. It’s ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
Now that we’ve officially crossed over into the spookiest month of the year, Spooky Brews Boston is fast approaching. Halloween decorations have been purchased. There’ll ...
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Dunkin’ Teams up with Harpoon for a Coffee Porter

Pair with a doughnut.
For the second year in a row, Boston’s Harpoon Brewing Co. has teamed up with the Canton, MA-based Dunkin’ (née Donuts) to brew a coffee ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
It was a whirlwind of a weekend for the Hop Culture team. We celebrated Dancing Gnome’s 2nd anniversary with The Birthday Party, a two session ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Tried at GABF

Out of 4,000 beers.
For the second year in a row, Hop Culture joined 60,000 other beer fans at the Great American Beer Festival in Denver, Colorado. Also present ...
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Here’s What to Drink at The Birthday Party

The official beer list for The Birthday Party.
At this time last year, we were in Pittsburgh at Dancing Gnome brewery throwing the very first Juicy Brews craft beer festival. It was a ...
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No New England Breweries Medal in ‘Hazy’ Beer Categories at GABF

No New England breweries medaled in the hazy categories at GABF.
The 32nd edition of the GABF competition promised to be an exciting one, with the recent introduction of the “Juicy or Hazy” beer categories at ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
It was a big travel week for the Hop Culture team. We returned from a weekend of partying with the Aslin crew for their third ...
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