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The Best Beer to Drink at GABF 2018

How to crush GABF like a pro.
The Great American Beer Festival® (GABF), is the largest ticketed beer festival in the U.S. Taking place over three days each fall, the event, presented ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
The Hop Culture team had a short week! Why, you ask? We drove down to Washington, D.C. to party with our friends at Aslin and ...
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Casey Brewing & Blending Announces Fall/Winter Fruited Sour Releases

Today Casey Brewing & Blending, the highly-regarded brewery based out of Glenwood Springs, CO, announced their fall and winter releases of fruited sour ales. Casey, ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
Labor Day has come and gone, which means fall is just around the corner. We’re getting ready for scary movies, Märzens, pumpkin pie, and our ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
It was a hot one boys and girls! We fought the NYC heatwave with a cooler full of beer. Truth be told, it may have ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
Things got a little wild in the office this past week. We had a huge glassware drop, held our newsletter mystery box giveaway (winners announced ...
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The 5 Best Beers We Drank This Week

Our favorite beers of the week.
The week after a festival is always a bit crazy at Hop Culture HQ. Preparing for a fest takes months of planning, weeks of hitting ...
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The Best Craft Cider to Drink this Summer

A cider for any occasion.
Cider has been having a moment these last few years, with beer and wine drinkers exploring the vast (and gluten-free) world of fermented apples. It’s ...
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Eternal Return from Threes Brewing Is a Perfect Beer for Wine Drinkers

The latest edition of the Eternal Return series.
Eternal Return: Sauvignon Blanc 2015 Harvest (Champagne Vintage) at a glance: Eternal Return is a long-running series from Threes. Each edition is aged in barrels ...
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Breweries Submit A Staggering 706 Hazy Beers to GABF

The Haze Craze hits GABF.
Earlier this year, the Brewers Association (BA) announced that it would be recognizing Hazy IPAs as a unique style in its 2018 Beer Style Guidelines. ...
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Here’s What to Drink at Beers With(out) Beards

Celebrating the kickass women who make beer.
Beers With(out) Beards is a movement. We are taking this week to celebrate the amazing women in the craft beer community–from brewery owners to brewers ...
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The Best Beer from the Vermont Brewers Festival

How the state that invented the modern IPA is pushing the style.
If you’re feeling disillusioned with craft beer’s overwhelming emphasis on IPAs differentiated only by hop bills and offhandedly wacky supplementary elements, book yourself a trip ...
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100 Years Cellador and Hop Culture: The Making of a Carrot Beer

Just two friends making a carrot beer.
Who knew that Kevin Osborne, founder of Cellador, and Kenny Gould, founder of Hop Culture, would become great friends? The two met at a Hop ...
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How to Pair Cigars and Beer with The Tank’s Ahmed Fernandez

A classy pairing.
When you hear the words “beer pairing” your mind instantly goes to food. You envision a menu with detailed instructions from the house cicerone and ...
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Blind Tasting 30 of the Best Pilsners

#SummerOfPils
It’s officially the summer of pilsners. Forget dank and juicy triple IPAs, don’t give me your quadruple-fruited sours, and get that stout out of your ...
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The Best Beers for a Weekend Fishing Trip

Go fish!
Summer is upon us, ladies and gentlemen. Proof? I’m writing this from the great state of Minnesota and it’s 96 degrees. Good thing there are ...
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