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Queer Beer Joins Forces with Meals On Us PDX to Fight Food Insecurity
Changing lives one meal at a time.
Four weeks ago, I opened up my inbox to find this email. “Hello! My Name is Marco Antonio Guzman. I am a Mexican queer male ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Beer, Part Two — What Does a Safe Space Look Like?
Part two of ten.
In the opening part of our series [Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part One — Why Isn’t Craft Beer More Diverse?] we explained why ...
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Everything You Need to Know About the 2023 Queer Beer Box
Hello Squirrel Friends! Grace Weitz here, Senior Content Editor for Hop Culture. In 2020, I started Queer Beer for one simple reason: I’d never found ...
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The Boundary-Breaking Craft Beer Instagrams We’re Following in 2023
Double tap, double down.
Undeniably and unequivocally, Instagram has become a go-to platform for craft beer, displaying gorgeous pour shots, announcing releases, facilitating trades, and more. But more recently, ...
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Firestone Walker Invitational: Drinking Some of the World’s Best Beer in Wine Country
One of the best beer festivals!
One of the best beer festivals in the country, the 2023 Firestone Walker Invitational showcased various worldwide beer riches available at every corner. “The original ...
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Creating Safer Spaces in Craft Beer, Part One — Why Isn’t Craft Beer More Diverse?
Part one of ten.
In April of 2023, Hop Culture posted the following message to its Instagram page: Grace here, Managing Editor of Hop Culture. As a Queer-identifying person ...
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The Proper Czech Pours: The Best Foam You’ll Ever Drink
Foam is friend, not foe!
Step one: Hand wash, rinse, and clean the glass at the same temperature as the beer you’re serving. Next, stick the nozzle of a LUKR ...
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1,067 Beers and 7 Years Later, Southern Grist Is Still One of Nashville’s Best Breweries
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Seven years ago, Kevin Antoon, Jamie Lee, and Jared Welch opened a little 1,700-square-foot brewery called Southern Grist in East Nashville with just forty-nine seats. ...
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Strength in Unity: Why the Belgian-Inspired Fait La Force Is Nashville’s Hottest Brewery
A Victorian castle with an NBA Jam arcade.
Faces stared back at me from their Victorian frames. People of all shapes, sizes, ages, genders, and races dotted the wall. In the middle, an ...
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Three Black Brewery Owners Share How to Observe Juneteenth
A guide to respectfully observing Juneteenth.
On June 19th, 1865, a group of enslaved people in Galveston, TX, learned they had been freed from slavery…two and a-half years after President Abraham ...
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Get Me a Slice of Some Hamm’s
Hamm it up!
In “Marriage of Figaro,” the third episode in Matthew Weiner’s monumental AMC period drama Mad Men, Don Draper, the maddest of men, undertakes an ancient ...
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Celebrate World Whisky Day With Unique Beer-Inspired Whiskey
Neat, on the rocks, or in a cocktail, whet your whistle!
Considered the water of life, whiskey (whisky) has become one of the most popular spirits in America and worldwide. So much so that even breweries ...
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ProBrewer, Athletic, and More Raise $225k for Michael James Jackson Foundation
Raising the bar without 'checking a box'
As the sun set over the Nashville city skyline, Michael James Jackson Foundation (MJF) Founder and Chair Garrett Oliver held up a life-size check for ...
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Who Won Gold at the World Beer Cup Awards
And the gold goes to...
Started by the Brewers Association in 1996, the World Beer Cup celebrates the pinnacle of global craft beer. This year, an international panel of 272 ...
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The National Black Brewers Association Explodes Into Craft Beer With a Bang
A big first for craft beer.
The buzz rose from a low rumble to an ear-numbing roar as more and more people crowded into Slim & Husky’s on Broadway in Nashville, ...
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