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61 Queer-Led and Queer-Supporting Breweries to Champion Right Now (And Forever)
Support LGBTQIA+ folx in the craft beer industry!
Inclusion, equality, and justice. These three words have become a cornerstone for Hop Culture Magazine. For the past three years, movements around the country have ...
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Reflecting on the Rise of Edinburgh’s Moonwake Beer Co.
Half circles of navy inset in forest green and sunflower gold. Geometric shapes in bright red bounce off white half-moons dipped in baby blue. In ...
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Balance Brewing: How Manchester’s Only Wild Ale Brewery Pursues One Moment of Equilibrium
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On a blustery Monday evening, I snaked down a side alley next to the Manchester Piccadilly station. Under one of the many bricked archways, I ...
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Everything I Learned Drinking at a Two-Time CAMRA Pub of the Year
Pub excellence
I hopped off the train and walked ten minutes to the center of town, my suitcase trailing behind me along the brick-red cobblestone. In the ...
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Garage Project: The Mighty Brewery at the Bottom of the World
Covered in sh*t, fenced in by barbed wire, graffitied to the gills, the old petrol station in Wellington, New Zealand, had seen better days when ...
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And the 2024 World Beer Cup Winners Are…
Gold, silver, bronze.
One of the world’s most prestigious and esteemed craft beer competitions, the World Beer Cup has celebrated the best in beer every year since the ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the Proper Lager Glassware
#properglassware
#properglassware makes all the difference. For example, the drinkware matters when you’re drinking a lager, whether a German-style pilsner, helles, or Czech pale lager. Curious ...
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What Exactly Is an Altbier? We Asked the Experts
Let’s ask that question again: What is altbier? According to Hausbrauerie Zum Schlüssel Braumeister Dirk Rouenhoff, who was born in the Lower Rhine Region and ...
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The History of the World’s Most Iconic Beer Glass, Bierstiefel
If das boot fits...
Munich. September 25, 2010. I made my way from my forest campsite on the fringes of Munich to the campgrounds in the heart of the ...
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Tenma Beer Project: Not a Brewery. Not a Brewing Company. A Beer Project
Beer Project. Not Brewing Co. Not Brewery. At Tenma Beer Project, one of our “Best New Breweries of 2023,” co-founders Dana Martindale and Brennan Perry ...
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Why Left Hand Believes Its New Nitro Release Will Drink Best in Glass
Pour hard!
West Coast IPA vs. hazy, higher ABV vs. no ABV, and aluminum cans vs. glass bottles—just some of the most significant debates in craft beer ...
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What Exactly Is Nitro Beer?
A brief explainer on the history and modern uses of nitrogen beer.
“Passing trends “ built this industry. Folks derided the rise of hazy IPAs or pastry stouts when they first entered the scene. While some developments ...
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Why We Might See More Brewery Mergers in 2024
Could this be the future?
Tally brewery closures between 2022 and 2023, and the results will chill your veins: 319 in the former and a stunning 385 in the latter, ...
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At von Trapp Brewing, The Helles Are Alive With the Rounds of Beer
Any day at around 4:30 p.m., Sam von Trapp’s cell phone might ring. “If it says Pop’s cell … I know there’s a good chance ...
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320+ Women-Led Breweries to Drink From Right Now (And Forever)
Breweries you should drink from all year round!
Imagine the last beer you drank. What did the beer taste like? Perhaps you had a hazy, and you found notes of grapefruit and citrus. ...
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