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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8 Beer Industry Trends to Watch in 2022

What to watch in the craft beer industry in 2022.
Roll with the punches. Adapt. Pivot. These are phrases and words we thought we might have a chance to leave behind last year. Instead, for ...
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Why More American Craft Breweries Are Brewing Non-Alcoholic Beers

More beers. Less booze.
Many people kick off the new year with Dry January — thirty-one days of abstaining from alcohol. A term first coined by a group in ...
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Native Land Beer Wants You to Know on Whose Ancestral Land You Stand

A collaboration beer recognizing Native American ancestral land.
There’s a chart hanging on Shyla Sheppard’s wall listing out all fifty states. Every time a brewery in a new state joins her Native Land ...
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What Is the Best Beer Meme of the Year?

When Hop Culture announces a meme contest...
Where do you find out about top beer releases, upcoming festivals, or new breweries to visit? Or even just laugh at a funny beer meme? ...
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7 Indigenous Breweries to Support During Native American Heritage Month (And Forever)

Learn the history and culture of Indigenous tribes... through beer.
Over the past few years, we’ve seen craft beer used as a tool to promote opportunities in the beer industry, provide gateways for minority- and ...
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30 Veteran-Owned Breweries To Support This Veteran’s Day

Breweries that serve way more than just beer.
Looking for a veteran-owned brewery to support this Veteran’s Day on Nov. 11th, 2021? We found several organizations founded by former members of the United ...
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Hopportunity Awaits With New DuClaw and Craft x EDU Collab

Hopportunity is knocking.
What do the Founder of Hop Culture, the cartoonist and Founder of Pints and Panels, the Founder of Fermly, and Ohio’s first Black female professional ...
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Brewed By Rival Gangs: TRU Light Is a Beer on a Mission

This is cool.
We’ve said it before but we’ll say it again: Beer has the power to change people. And we’re not talking about levels of inebriation. We ...
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How Contract Brewing Can Help Minority- and BIPOC-Owned Breweries

The one approach that can help BIPOC and minority business owners open a brewery.
Over the course of the last several years, the Brewers Association (BA) began tracking craft brewery owner and worker demographics. The results from their first ...
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Everything You Need to Know About International Zwanze Day 2021

One of the most coveted beer holidays of the year.
Lately, we’re written a lot about wild ales and lambic beers. And for good reason. They’re just damn good! So good, in fact, that one ...
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