Welcome to The Juiciest, our annual round up of our favorite breweries, beers, new breweries, places we traveled, and more from the last 365 days. We’re releasing new stories every week from Dec 9, 2024, through the end of January, so be sure to check back regularly!
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As part of Hop Culture’s Juiciest, we picked the best new breweries of 2024 — from a hoppy haven slinging bangin’ pies in upstate New York to a mountain escape in the French Alps to a brewery and ‘test’ kitchen incubator in Brooklyn.
“Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges–Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!””
- Rudyard Kipling
The Explorer
Joining a brewery membership or bottle society gives you the chance to nab exclusive beers and dive deep with one of your favorite breweries. As part of Hop Culture’s Juiciest, we picked our favorites that you can join now or when they open up slots in the future.
“We’re supposed to be doing the most special things we possibly can. We’re taking all our beers from our dream board, condensing them into these releases.”
- Matt Brynildson
Firestone Walker Brewmaster
We all have our favorite hidden gem places to drink. We asked the team to tell us their best spots of the year. Find ’em all here!
“The pub should be quirky like most museums in a way—tidy but not too cluttered.”
- George Greenaway
Tamworth Tap Head Brewer and Co-Founder
As part of Hop Culture’s Juiciest, we picked the best breweries of 2024 — from a brewery making “Damn Good Beer” in Seattle to one taking inspiration from a mother’s famous bakery recipes in New York.
“We can’t do anything unless we brew damn good award-winning beer!”
- Rodney Hines
Métier Brewing CEO and Co-Founder
We traveled a lot this past year and to some places you might not expect. Here are the top places we traveled for beer in 2024, from an industrial town in England to the hop-heaven of the Pacific Northwest.
“We drank nowhere near enough dunkels and helles at the haus of German lager royalty.”
- Grace Lee-Weitz
Senior Content Editor, Hop Culture
We picked out the nineteen best craft beers we drank in 2024, from a freshly poured Czech pale lager to a fresh hop freshie to a nitro porter rivaling Guinness.
“I don’t know if it’s because we’ve been talking about it so much, but it feels like the most pineapple one I’ve ever smelled. The pineapple is crazy in there; It’s absolutely the note we desperately wanted!”
- James Horrocks
Balance Brewing & Blending Co-Founder
Liquid inside the can and out. Colorful characters, blooming flowers, and sneakers. A cloaked reaper, a giant burrito, and a cat. In 2024, beer labels continue to get simultaneously kookier, crazier, and yet simpler.
For the past year, I’ve been hoping I’d be asked my favorite can art of 2024. I have an answer. You know, the one—that can that looked like a giant burrito.
- John Gross
Director, Strategic Business Development, Next Glass
These are the new beer resolutions we’re setting for ourselves heading into 2025. Let’s see how many we can check off in the next 365 days!
We feel very inspired from 2024 and can’t wait to tackle the challenges and adventures ahead in 2025.
- Grace Lee-Weitz
Senior Content Editor, Hop Culture
From a county in the North Atlantic Ocean to one in the South Pacific Ocean, we’re sharing the top places we want to go for beer travel in 2025.
Repeat after us again: dream trip.
- Grace Lee-Weitz
Senior Content Editor, Hop Culture
This is one of our most favorite lists to put together every year. Here are the breweries who are exciting us, and we’re keeping an eye on in 2025, including ones from Australia, Brazil, and Japan!
“It was go bigger or go home,”
- Danny Bohm
Formula Brewing Founder
With 2024 in our rearview mirror, we put together a selection of our 11 most-read articles from last year. Give them a read!
From electronic football games on dusty Salvation Army shelves to a hot, new beer style emerging in the States and a David vs. Goliath story from a brewery under the train tracks in London, we love this year’s most-read articles.
- Grace Lee-Weitz
Hop Culture Senior Content Editor