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Jerard Fagerberg loves a good cheese danish. But does cheese danish love him back? Read on to find out.
A tipping point has been reached.
Michigan’s North Peak Brewing decided to bring back its Blitzen Festivus ale to help beer drinkers shake this nasty year.
Les Grisettes is a bright and spunky Franco-Belgian saison that gives you the will to trudge on through to March, whatever the weather.
The Cincinnati beer lover's Instagram page is dedicated to holding beers with his Andre the Giant-sized hands.
Saisons are complex, though they’re rarely sensational for it. S9 is both.
Philadelphia’s Evil Genius Beer Company united with Miller High Life to bring the ideal brunch IPA to life.
The Colorado brewery nods to some old-school classics with its truly modern take on the style.
With chocolate at the start and more chocolate at the finish, the base porter gets lost in this legendary Pennsylvania collaboration.
Named after the pasta-loving witch depicted in Tomie dePaola's famous children's book, this Italian-style ale has its own bit of magic up its sleeve.
The California brewery is a leader in the non-alcoholic beer game, and its latest brew has all of the flavor of a milkshake IPA with none of the booze.
When Minnesota liquor laws kept its beers off the shelf, the brewery turned to Wisconsin’s Octopi for help.
On screen he's a bombastic vampire, but to know Berry in a real way, you have to listen to his music.
This Schwarzbier-style ale, with its almost intangible bitterness, is a smooth, sultry take on the Mexico’s famous midnight-black malty beers.
When the leaves go sepia and the summer ales won’t cut it anymore, this is the first beer you should reach for.
Two Massachusetts powerhouses have joined together to create an ale with Dunkin’ coffee, pumpkin pureé, cinnamon, and lactose.
This Halloween everyone deserves a treat, even the grown-ups. Enter this double barrel-aged peanut butter stout.
Vanilla Pecan is a variant of Lazy Magnolia’s flagship Southern Pecan brown ale, boosted with whole-roasted pecans and Madagascar vanilla beans.
The beer, which takes its name from a song by the Violent Femmes, proves the Portland brewery is no one-hit-wonder.
Fair State Brewing Cooperative announced Wednesday that they had voluntarily accepted their employees’ petition to join Unite Here Local 17.
Shortly after workers announced their intent to form a union, Surly Brewing Co. indefinitely shuttered its Beer Hall, citing a loss of revenue due to COVID-19.
The newest year-round IPA from the Seattle brewery is a trip.
Raise a glass to Odin with this blonde ale that harnesses the power of kveik yeast.
The makers of Summer Shandy introduced their new seasonal crusher, Leinenkugel Spritzen, in March.
“Hard kombucha is most enjoyable when it stands on its own merits.”
The beer (and brewery) that put Burlington on the map left its Vermont home earlier this summer.
It may not be the first riff on the iconic beer, but it’s certainly the most successful.
The odd nut is perfectly at home in this restrained beer.
As demonstrations continue in the Twin Cities, local breweries are showing their support by providing food, first aid, and beer to protesters.
Let this unfiltered half-farmhouse lager lift you up out of your quarantine and into a world where idleness isn’t a state-mandated prevention method.
Sour Rosé is as elegant as beer gets but it drinks without any pretense. Just egalitarian refreshment, berry-bursting sip after sip.
What if you could catch a buzz off Yoo-hoo?
Pennsylvania-based Abomination Brewing's Wandering into the Fog is a hophead’s dream, striking very near to the ideal Mosaic-hopped beer.
Hairless Dog's NA IPA is a West Coast IPA in every respect, except it's booze-free.
The Milwaukee brewery may have created the first certified celiac-friendly beer, but is it still the best?
The latest addition to the Michigan brewery's beloved beer line is a backyard sipper that comes in 12-packs for a reason.
The Wisconsin brewer's take on a New England IPAs embraces all of the hype to create a beer that's seriously good.
It starts and ends with an episode of ‘The Wire.’
The MSG-laced sour ale captures the flavor of General Tso's in a can, but is that a good thing?
The Minneapolis brewer created a full-flavor stout that’s only 3.8% ABV.
Dosed with the same hops Fulton uses in its beer line, Hopped! is nearly beer, except it’s gluten-free, crystal clear, and, well, not beer. But it’s close.
Think of Offshoot as Bruery Terreaux’s playful little brother and its flagship IPA as a loving taunt to the California brewery’s staunch nonconformity.
Not to disparage the good name of Spotted Cow, but Wisconsin's New Glarus routinely does better with this stellar pale ale.
Vermont changed the beer game for a half-decade, and now Shacksbury is trying to do the same for cider.
In Virginia, Christmas doesn’t start until Hardywood releases Gingerbread Stout, and it’s easy to understand why.
Alpha Klaus is the cool cousin who rides into Christmas dinner on a Harley.
For 15 years, Rush River’s Winter Warmer has been fortifying chilly drinkers throughout the midwest.
Melvin and Toppling Goliath's Ladder Mash is a heavyweight collab that fans will be lining up to see.
If you want that juice box experience in your nightly pint, this faithful re-interpretation of Hi-C offers exactly that.
Although the California brewery had success with haze, its true calling has always been the piney West Coast IPA.
It’s a beer so simply excellent that it barely requires elaboration beyond that.
Indeed's Mexican lager elevates every facet of the style, from the glorious color and magnetizing aroma to the perplexing mix of flavors.
Wild fermented, dry-hopped, and topped with pear juice, Sunshine & Opportunity is a beer that combines everything great about craft beer in America today.
Hopfentea takes a traditional, low-gravity Berliner weisse and flavors it with fruits found in tropical tea punch.
There are many fans of the cream-canned lager, but Banquet Beer is still awaiting its PBR renaissance.
Salmon Pants, from 3 Floyds and Mikkeller’s collaborative WarPigs Brewery, is a gothic interpretation of the grocery store beer.
Long Island’s Blue Point Brewing teamed up with Presidente on the plantain-infused golden pilsner Una Fría.
The Florida brewery captures Grandma’s greatest hit in a 12-ounce package.
It’s easy to discern which side of the beer and cocktail divide Buckin’ Mule falls on.
The tomato, clam, and beer-based concoction has gone from the beaches of Mexico to your gas station cooler.
With all the well-fruited kettle sours out there, it’s good to have a reminder of what a solid base, wild yeast, porous barrel, and patience can accomplish.
Developed by brewer/long-distance runner Shelley Smith and Samuel Adams, Marathon's 26.2 Brew is formulated as a recovery beer.
Weekend Vibes is an IPA made for day drinkers.
The Brooklyn brewery is reluctant to label it a blonde ale or a cream ale or a wheat beer, settling to present it as something in between.
Taking inspiration from Game of Thrones' Tormund Giantsbane, this stout from Fair State is bold but ultimately sweet—much like its namesake.
Shamone manages to bring together the best parts of a New England-style IPA and kettle sour in single can.
Bauhaus Brew Labs' Matt Schwandt had to give up drinking alcohol due to acute pancreatitis, but that didn't mean he had to give up beer.
Mich Golden is both rumor and legend in Minnesota. Jerard Fagerberg tries to separate fact from fiction with the Gopher State's favorite light lager.
Massachusetts brewery Lord Hobo has married New England's hazy IPA with the region's pro sports dominance in a liquid celebration of Boston.
Always a must-buy for beer collectors across the nation, the latest edition of Deschutes' barrel-aged imperial The Abyss still delivers.
Once considered among the trendiest additions to any style, rye is now a signifier that the beer you’re drinking was probably concocted a decade ago.
The reappearance of Schell’s Bock is another sign of spring.
Inspired by the cinnamon-sprinkled rice milk drink, The Bruery's Or Xata blonde ale is an excellent pairing for tacos.
While a fine curiosity, Aniara is ultimately more sensation than substance.
Phantasmagoria, a juicy and resinous double IPA without an overwhelming ABV, is totally unlike any beer Prairie has released to date.
No only is its Helles Other People a champion pun in the beer world, it’s also a paragon of what American brewers can do with the Munich-born brew.
Ever since Surly Brewing Co. first released its Darkness imperial stout in 2006, its annual revival has become Minnesota’s greatest beer ritual.
Spirit Foul’s 2019 run recently ended, but expect this Minnesota-California juicebox to return in early 2020.
Narragansett Lager, once the best-selling beer in all of New England, has been restored to its former glory.
Lamplighter has become a leader in the Massachusetts brewing scene, and it did it on the back of its New England-style double IPA Rabbit Rabbit.
Inspired by a high-calorie toast topping and Billy Idol earworm, Honees Honees exemplifies the virtue of imagination in brewing.
Warm as a roasted chestnut, this abbey-made Belgian quad from St. Bernardus wraps up all the flavors of the season into a neat package.
“From the Land of Sky Blue Waters comes the water best for brewing.”
Finding the balance between IPA and Belgian beer, Bedlam! deserves its foothold atop Ale Asylum’s rankings for justifying the existence of a frankenstyle.
Clocking in at a corrosive 17.2% ABV, Evil Twin's Molotov Heavy is sold as “one of the most anti-authoritative beers ever made.
Named for the year of altbier’s reign in Dusseldorf, Alt 1848 is proof that there are still recipes in the vault worth getting excited over.
Ballast Point Brewing Company's Sour Wench is a gorgeous Berliner weisse packed with a bounty of West Coast blackberries
First Call coffee lager mixes cold-press espresso into a bright and clear lager, making for a beer that feels at home whether it’s sunrise or sunset.
By co-opting the likeness of Queen frontman Freddie Mercury for its New England-style double IPA, Mikkeller has shown that this beer is bound for glory.
The intensely bitter Lizard King pale ale has risen to challenge for the title of Pipeworks’ flagship.
Mr. IPA-Nut manages to capture, in a single can, what makes the combination of cold beer and salty peanuts such a time-tested pairing.
This German-style pilsner is evidence that Summit’s revolution continues on.
For better or worse, Shiner jumps on the hazy train with an unmemorable IPA.
Castle Cream Ale is an example of what a cream ale can accomplish when done right.
If you grew up biting Wisconsin cherries off your fingertips, then Doe Eyes will bring you back to those days.
Five years from now, Cold Press Black Ale will remain a perfectly dynamic melding of coffee and beer.
Cans of Day Quencher disappear more quickly than they should, despite its sessionable ABV.
Fire, Skulls & Money doesn’t give a damn how you grade it, so long as you recognize its greatness.
Indeed Brewing Co.'s Rum King has outlasted its peers and become an emblematic Minnesota beer. Every year, its arrival—and ever-increasing distribution—is anticipated with fervor.
Bearing the unmistakable hood of the Ku Klux Klan, Yellow Belly's label belies the sweet beer beneath.
Grain Belt is iconic for people who grew up around Minneapolis, but is it good enough to knock your own local favorite off the pedestal?
Take a sip of this dastardly silky New England IPA and be seized by its power.
“Far better is it to dare mighty things…than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much.”
Of all the beers in WeldWerks’ dessert case, Coconut Coffee Stout is the best.
If Psuedo Sue is great, King Sue is superlative. If Psuedo Sue is exceptional, King Sue is anointed.
Pilsners are are more of a science than an art—you brew by the rules or you piss off an entire continent of beer drinkers.
This once-coveted brew has earned itself a mixed reputation.
A dank, no-coast IPA from a hippie-turned-brewer.
Oberon’s greatest success is its ability to meld the wheat beer and the pale ale.
An unbridled IPA encased in an all-black can.
Not a gimmick, and yet not not a gimmick.
A beer that smells like ham, ends tart, and isn't disgusting!
