The Culture of Craft Beer

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11 Events and Parties to Celebrate NYC Beer Week

Your drinking schedule for NYC beer week.
It could have been on the cab ride through Central Park to celebrate our one year anniversary at As Is, my favorite craft beer spot ...
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How Dogs Shaped Some of Our Favorite Breweries

When dogs create the taproom culture.
The community of craft beer and dogs is thriving. These days it’s not crazy to see dogs strutting through taprooms or lounging at your favorite ...
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How to Open a Beer Bottle With Just About Anything

For when you left your bottle opener at home.
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The Weird World of Dog and Beer Instagram Accounts

A cream colored golden retriever lounges casually on the concrete floor peering out from behind an equally golden pour from Block Three Brewing Co. The ...
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The 12 Best Dog-Friendly Bars in the U.S.

Sit. Stay. Drink.
Not everyone is a dog person, and that’s okay. That’s what cats are for. Or lizards. But for those among us who think everything is ...
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Craft Beer Cheers for the Home Team

More and more craft breweries are brewing speciality craft beer for the local fanbases of their city’s sports team, and the results are here to ...
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How to Take the Best Beer Pics With Your Pet

Lights. Camera. Sit. Stay. Action.
Combining pets and beer is one of the most popular trend for beerstagrammers on Instagram and social media. Here are tips on the best way ...
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The Fermenting Ecosystem: Scratch Brewing in Ava, Illinois

How a hard-to-find brewery become a midwestern beer mecca.
At Scratch Brewing, the ingredients are local, the processes are unique, and the production is tiny. So how has this hard to find brewery become ...
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Hazy IPAs and Clear Skies in Guadalajara

A conversation with the guys who are leading the juicy revolution in Mexico.
How brewery owners Hector Vielma and Edgar Vallin are taking hops and haze south of the border with their new venture: Cielito Lindo. ...
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The 12 Best Beer Events of 2017

A look back at the best beer experiences of the year.
A look back at the best beer events and experiences in 2017. ...
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Lyft Launches Beer in Chicago

You can now drink Lyft at the bar, and then take a Lyft home afterwards.
The ride-sharing app Lyft announced that it will be partnering with Chicago’s Baderbrau Brewing Co. to release Five Star Lager. ...
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I’m a Female Beer Server and Men Won’t Trust Me

Female beer server Christie Dix explores the gender bias in craft.
Female beer server Christie Dix explores the gender bias in craft beer. ...
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Our 12 Favorite Beer-Drinking Pets on Instagram

Four legs and more followers than any of us.
They have four legs and more followers than any of us. These are the best pets — dogs, cats, and bearded dragons — that love ...
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The Conflicting Chaos of The Great American Beer Festival

Reflections and ruminations after the fact.
Armed only with a pen, a tasting glass, and quickly slipping sobriety, one writer explores all the craziness of the 2017 Great American Beer Fest. ...
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This Brewery Incubator Wants to Make You a Professional Brewer

North Carolina's Rocky Mount Mills provides turnkey systems for aspiring brewmasters.
Want to become a professional brewer? The brewery incubators at North Carolina’s Rocky Mount Mills can help make that happen. ...
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In Order to Survive, Craft Beer Must Learn Restraint

Spontaneously fermented peach sour aged over hibiscus?
For the last decade of American craft, we’ve been awash in flavor. But in order to survive, craft beer must learn restraint. ...
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