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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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21 Most Iconic American Breweries to Cheers on National Beer Day
Every year on April 7th, we celebrate National Beer Day. Why? Because on this day in 1933, the Cullen-Harrison Act went into effect, erasing eighteen ...
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Double Hopnosis: Firestone Walker Doubles Down on Cold IPAs
Last year, Firestone Walker’s next-generation West Coast-style IPA Hopnosis became a new way to IPA. Featuring Cryo Hops, dry hopping, and, perhaps most importantly, a ...
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Top Beers We Drank in March
Beware the IPAs of March!
“Beware the ides of March.” Might we say, beware the IPAs of March instead!? With spring just around the corner, daylight savings behind us, and ...
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Celebrate National Vermouth Day With These 8 Unique Vermouths
Good for more than just your martini, Manhattan, or Negroni
Every year we celebrate National Vermouth Day on March 21. But what do we really know about vermouth? Two ounces of dry gin + one ...
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The 13 Best American Pale Ales Available in Most Stores Right Now
Just remember: APA came before IPA!
We love hops! And so do you. We all can’t get enough of those little green cones. Case and point, in 2021, the Pacific Northwest ...
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