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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Untappd’s All-Time Top-Rated New England/Hazy IPAs

Hops. Hops. Hops.
Thirty-one days of IPAs! Celebrating IPA Day on the first Thursday of August every year gives us an excuse (as if we needed one) to ...
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The Truth Behind Sour Beer Calories

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Of all the crazy beer rumors floating around the internet, one of the strangest and most persistent is that sour beer has fewer calories than ...
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The 25 Best Beers to Drink in Summer 2023

Hot, hot beers.
Here’s a crazy summer beer story to go along with this list of best summer beers. (Not interested? Skip down to TL:DR. We understand if ...
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