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What Exactly Is a Pastry Stout?
Take a stroll on the sweeter side.
Although initially used pejoratively to refer to sickly sweet, adjunct-laden beers, “pastry stout” has been universally adopted in the craft beer community. We can credit ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Imperial Stouts
Barrel-aged beauties!
Why do we love stouts? Un-stout-edly, we shout from the rooftops for the dark depths of these dank-defying beers because they touch our souls. And ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in October 2023
Scary good! ????
October is one of the most festive months of the year. Oktoberfest wraps up in the early weeks of the month, and then we immediately ...
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Wasatch Brewery’s Last One Down: The Beer For All of Life’s Adventures
First one up, last one down.
In Utah, the joke goes that most folks can ski before they can even walk. A state renowned for mountain sports, Utah has twenty-one ski ...
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The Spookiest Brews for Halloween
Are you afraid of the dark...ales?
We’re throwing the spookiest Halloween party…in your home! Hop Culture’s favorite festival is back (Rosemary’s), baby! We started Spooky Brews in 2018, inviting people to ...
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Oyster Stout! Oyster Stout! Oyster Stout!
"But the pearls were accidents, and the finding of one was luck" - John Steinbeck
Nothing compliments a Maine summer’s day more than a helping of oysters on the half shell: briny and refreshing, a spiritual connection between you and ...
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The 9 Best Porters Available in Most Stores Right Now
Porters, it's what's for dinner.
Yes, we know that stouts get all the love. And for good reason. But personally, we feel like people often overlook porters—kind of the jelly ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Czech Pilsners
Meaning "from Pilsen (or Plzeň)” in Czech.
Today, pilsners have become one of the most widely consumed styles worldwide (even Miller Lite cans include the word “pilsner” on them, for goodness’ sake). ...
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The Coolest, Most Exclusive Beers of the 2024 Firestone Walker Brewmaster’s Collective
12 months. 21 bottles. One bottle society.
Firestone Walker’s Brewmaster’s Collective is one of the most fantastic brewery bottle societies in the entire country. There, we’ve said it. Seriously, this is one ...
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Top 10 Beers We Drank in September 2023
We ???? Fall!
September has been one of our favorite months of the year so far with some of the top beers we drank all year. The NFL ...
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Will That Coffee Stout Keep You Up at Night?
Are coffee stouts caffeine bombs? We decided to find out.
Concerned about the amount of caffeine in your coffee stout? Bothered about the beans in your brew? If it’s long past your bedtime and you’re ...
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The Best Beers to Drink in Fall 2023
Autumn, fall, foliage, pumpkins, Oktoberfests, oh my.
To us, drinking the best beers in fall follows the changing colors of the leaves, starting with green fresh hop jewels from the recent harvest, ...
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The 17 Best Oktoberfests Available in Most Stores Right Now
Prost! Toast! Clinking steins.
This past Saturday, the 188th Oktoberfest kicked off in Munich, Germany. And while we couldn’t hop on a plane to get across the pond, we ...
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Sierra Nevada’s Iconic Oktoberfest Collab Returns with German Innovator Kehrwieder
Prost!
Sierra Nevada does Oktoberfest differently. For the past nine years (minus a two- to three-year break during COVID), one of the most iconic breweries in ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Märzens
Toast! Prost!
Yes, it is the best time of the year. To us, this is indisputable. When fall rolls into town, blowing in its red, orange, and ...
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