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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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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). ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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, ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated Fruited Sours
Fruit. Fruit. Fruit.
Believe it or not, September 8th marks National Sour Beer Day (with International Sour Beer Day following shortly on September 20th). Yes, we celebrate a ...
The Top 10 Beers We Drank in August 2023
Back to school!
School’s out for…oh, shoot; we got that wrong. This month means that, for most, it’s back to school! Well, we certainly schooled ourselves with some ...
The Best Honey Beers for National Honey Bee Day
Un-bee-lievable beers.
We’ve seen some pretty crazy ingredients thrown into beer. Everything from peanut butter to jelly beans to any assortment of fruits, peppers, herbs, spices, and ...
Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated New England/Hazy IPAs
Hops. Hops. Hops.
Spring is here! Let’s let the good hops roll by looking at the data for one of the most popular styles in the entire country: ...