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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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The Top 14 Beers We Drank in April

☔ Showers of beer!
Beer rained down on us this month! Well, who are we kidding? We could say that about any time of the year, but the clouds ...
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Here’s Why Time Magazine’s Best Invention of 2020 Will Power Your Best Year in Beer

Fresh beer here!
We love to drink fresh beer. And trust us, we drink plenty of it for “research.” And while making beer may seem magical, it all ...
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The 12 Best Beer Festivals You Can’t Miss This Year

'Tis the season.
A few years ago, we traveled around the country, hosting a beer festival in a different city almost every month—Oakland, San Diego, Chicago, Portland, ME, ...
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The 300-Year-Old Breweries Driving a Craft Renaissance in Lille, France

Drink in the history.
What are the oldest craft breweries in America? Some might point to the 127-year-old Anchor, which closed earlier this year. But Yuengling technically holds the ...
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Best Beer Glasses to Buy in 2023

#properglassware!
Beer glasses, like any coveted item, have changed over the years. 8-tracks became cassette tapes became CDs became iPods became Spotify. Are we right? While ...
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France’s Best-Kept Beer Secret: 48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Lille

The beer capital of France.
I’m going to tell you about France’s best-kept secret. When it comes to food and drink, we know France for many things: some of the ...
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The Top 10 Beers We Drank in August 2023

Back to school!
School’s out for…oh, shoot; we got that wrong. This month means that, for most, it’s back to school! Well, we certainly schooled ourselves with some ...
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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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The Top 11 Beers We Drank in May

The beer beers we drank this month.
May flowers! That’s all we can think about with the bouquet of beers we drank this past month. Like a bright, bold all-South Asian-owned brewery ...
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Subcontinental: The First-Ever All-South Asian Collab in Craft Beer

A beer that bridges borders.
Where are other people like me? That’s the question South Asian Beer Club Founder Ruvani de Silva asked herself after she moved from the United ...
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48 Hours Drinking and Eating in Nashville, TN

Two stepping in the Music City.
After a red-eye flight halfway across the country, I touched down in Nashville, TN, for the first time at 5:30 am. In town for my ...
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Will You Be My Barleywine?

This isn't a trick question.
What’s a beer called a wine that’s not a wine? No, this isn’t a scene from National Treasure where we’re asking you to be Nick ...
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The Cult of Guinness: The Crazy History of One of the World’s Most Iconic Breweries

Over two hundred and sixty years. Countless stories. Many iconic beers. And the world's biggest stout brewery.
At five in the morning, Chris Hayden got off the plane in Dublin, Ireland. He had flown across the Atlantic Ocean for only one thing: ...
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The 13 Best American Pale Ales Available in Most Stores Right Now

Just remember: APA came before IPA!
We love hops! And so do you. We all can’t get enough of those little green cones. Case and point, in 2021, the Pacific Northwest ...
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