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Squatters Juicy IPA: A Glass of Freshly Squeezed Hazy Deliciousness
There's no such thing as too juicy!
When Squatters released its Juicy IPA for the first time in 2019, the Salt Lake City-based brewery had no idea its version of a hazy ...
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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in May
The beer beers we drank this month.
May flowers! That’s all we can think about with the bouquet of beers we drank this past month. Like a bright, bold all-South Asian-owned brewery ...
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Subcontinental: The First-Ever All-South Asian Collab in Craft Beer
A beer that bridges borders.
Where are other people like me? That’s the question South Asian Beer Club Founder Ruvani de Silva asked herself after she moved from the United ...
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Best American Lagers to Drink All Summer Long
Sippin' slow.
What does summer mean to you? Could it be cannonballing into the pool, splashing around in the waves on the beach, barbecuing in the backyard, ...
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Sipping Sunshine: How Wasatch’s New Salt Lime Cerveza Puts a Zesty Twist on Mexican-Style Lagers
Put the lime in the beer and mix it all up.
“You never forget your first.” The tagline Wasatch Brewery came up with to recognize its thirty-fifth anniversary has many meanings. Sure, when founder Greg Schirf ...
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What Is a Slow Pour? And Is It Worth the Wait the Seven Minute Wait!?
Would you wait 7 minutes for a beer?
I squeezed past a jostling couple, pushing my way forward to the crowded bar. Behind the counter, a mass of glasses seemed to be piling ...
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What Exactly Are Scotch Ales?
A deep dive into the esoteric beer style.
We don’t just serve scotch neat or on the rocks anymore. Did you know you can fill up a snifter with scotch ale? No, we’re ...
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Will You Be My Barleywine?
This isn't a trick question.
What’s a beer called a wine that’s not a wine? No, this isn’t a scene from National Treasure where we’re asking you to be Nick ...
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Best Pilsners Available in Most Stores Right Now
Czech, German, Italian, and American
Simple on the outside yet complex on the inside, pilsners are a humble lager first produced by Bavarian brewery Josef Groll in Plzeň, Czech Republic, ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Saison Day 2023
The 12 best saison to drink on the best day in April.
On Saturday, April 29, 2023, for the tenth year in a row, saisons will take center stage. Brewers and beer fans nationwide will celebrate this ...
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The Top Beers We Drank in April
April sours bring May flowers!
April sours bring May flowers. Isn’t that how it goes? It could, and we indeed found a few sours leaving us wide-eyed and puckering this ...
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Here’s What Happened When I Tried One of the Rarest Beers in the World
Drinking a legendary beer.
Three weeks ago, my dad and I piled in the car on a Monday morning and drove an hour and change up to Russian River’s ...
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What Is a Hefeweizen?
The beast of yeasts.
With aggressive hazy IPAs and West Coast IPAs dominating craft beer, it’s sobering to remember that other, more approachable versions of ales exist. Styles like ...
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The 37 Best Beers to Drink in Spring 2023
Beware the IPAs of March… April and May.
For many, March through May signifies spring, renewal, and a return to life. And the best spring beers we’re drinking these days reflected that. (Beware ...
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What Is a Hazy Pale Ale?
If a hazy IPA and an American pale ale went on a date.
If we had asked that question just a few years ago, you might have looked at us like we were robots writing a beer recipe. ...
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