The Culture of Craft Beer

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Has the “Bubble” Burst on Hard Seltzer?

The heat is on: will hot hard seltzer sales cool this summer?
For the last half decade hard seltzer has been hot. Every year sales for cans of alcoholic fizz bubbled over the top. But is that ...
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Best AAPI-Owned Breweries and Brands to Support Right Now (And Forever)

When Oscar Wong left Jamaica, where his parents had immigrated from China, to attend Notre Dame at eighteen years old, he never imagined he would ...
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Everything You Need to Know About Orval Day 2022

One day to drink the best Belgian pale ale in the world!
Beer holidays have become like coveted traditions. In the fall, we wait with bated breath for International Zwanze Day for a chance to taste the ...
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Prison Pals Brewing Co. Is the Hottest New Brewery in South Florida

Escape with the most insane smoothie sours and hazies.
In recent years, South Florida has become a hotbed for breweries, welcoming standouts such as Unseen Creatures, 3 Sons, Odd Breed, and Tripping Animals into ...
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Technology is the Future of Beer, and GoTab’s Leading the Way

The future in beer is here.
The global pandemic has changed craft beer culture significantly. Two years after the COVID-19 pandemic originally hit, breweries, bars, brewpubs, and restaurants are still grappling ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2nd Annual Hop Culture x New Belgium Presents Queer Beer Festival

Support the colorful, thriving voices of the Queer community in the craft beer industry.
In 2020, I conceptualized the first Queer Beer festival to capture the unique, vibrant, diverse, and thriving voices of the Queer community in the industry. ...
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Hop Culture Partners with Safe Bars for Premier Festival

Here is how we committed to make our festivals safe and inclusive spaces.
In December 2020, Hop Culture joined the Next Glass family of brands. As Next Glass returns to hosting in-person beer festivals around the world, our ...
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GoTab’s Revolutionary Technology Helps Breweries Boost Their Bottom Line

Revolutionizing craft beer technology.
The business of brewing beer has changed. Today, breweries need to consider everything beyond the beer, from the flow of their taproom to how their ...
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Meanwhile Brewing Teams Up with Dutch Artist for New IPA Series

How art and beer collide on the can.
What goes in a beer can matters more than what goes on a beer can. On this, we can all agree. But people drink with ...
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Texas’ Tastiest Sparkling Water Actually Looks and Drinks Like a Beer

Even the water is bigger and better in Texas.
Seltzer, sparkling water, bubbly—no matter what you call it, people love their fizzy H2O. And we’re not even talking about hard seltzer. Long before hard ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the 5th Annual Beers With(out) Beards Beer Festival

Support the most badass women in the craft beer industry.
In 2018, I conceptualized the first Beers With(out) Beards as part of my graduate school thesis capstone project at NYU. And over the past four ...
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All Female-Run Mujeres Brew House Is One of a Kind. And Here’s Why That Needs to Change

An all female-run brewery changing the conversation of craft beer.
Did you know that women were the OG brewers? Dating as far back as 4000 B.C., Sumerian women were found on Mesopotamian cuneiform tablets brewing ...
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From Couches to Craft Beer: A New Generation of South Asian Business Owners Brewing Beyond Borders

A new generation of craft brewery owners.
Nearly one hundred years ago, Tej Sandhu’s grandparents immigrated to British Columbia (BC), Canada, from a small village in India called Dhada. A natural salesman, ...
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The 5 Most Unique Ingredients in Peruvian Beer

I hadn’t slept in 24-hours. Between the flight from Miami, Florida to Lima, Peru, ten hours running between Peruvian government agencies and import offices, and ...
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The 20 Latine-Owned Breweries to Support Right Now

Latine-owned breweries showcase rich traditions, ingredients, and culture through beer.
Beers made with chapulines (crickets), tamarind, mate tea, or chinola (passion fruit). Beers inspired by horchata, a rice-based Mexican drink with cinnamon. Or Mexican hot ...
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The New Brewery Incubator Helping Minority-Owned Businesses “Pilot” Their Brands

Letting minority-owned breweries soar to new heights.
With nearly 9,000 breweries operating in the United States, opening up a brewery has many challenges. But especially minority-owned businesses face special hurdles. Contract brewing ...
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