Falling For Beer

Tucker Anders

Tucker is a Kansas-based writer who adopted the Midwest as home. He’s happiest with a beer in hand, meat on the smoker, and baseball playing in the background.

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Beer Reviews

Russian River’s Consecration Is Perfect

The dark ale aged in Cabernet barrels layers on the flavors in a way worthy of top marks.

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Stout Season Is Off to the Races with AleSmith’s Speedway Stout

Slow down with surprising stout that adds a bit of fruity tanginess to the rich and boozy style.

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Prairie’s Seasick Crocodile Brings the Gimmicks and the Flavor

Holiday themed brews often have as much substance as a Lifetime Christmas movie, but that's not the case with this cranberry sour.

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Highland’s Cold Mountain Has Just the Right Amount of Spice

The highly anticipated seasonal release from the Asheville, North Carolina-based brewer has its own Twitter feed dedicated to tracking down the beer.

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Half Acre’s Original Reaper Is the Straightforward Stout You Need

Move over, barrel-aged-maple-vanilla-cinnamon-apple concoction. This stout remembers its roots—and that’s a good thing.

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Wiley Roots Gets It Nearly Perfect With Blueberry Maple County Fair Cobbler

The dry-hopped, milkshake sour IPA with blueberry, maple syrup, graham cracker, cinnamon, vanilla, and milk sugar makes no sense, but it works.

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Big Mood Brings the Best of Two California Breweries Together

Firestone Walker teamed up with Sante Adairius Rustic Ales to brew this wild ale with apricots and white grapes.

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Odd13's Intergalactic Juice Hunter Is Out of This World

Intergalactic Juice Hunter shows the power of Galaxy hops in the right hands.

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Move Over, Bourbon Country—Halia Is Goose Island’s Best Beer

While bourbon barrel-aged stouts get all of the attention, this wine barrel-aged farmhouse ale is the real star of the Chicago brewery's collection.

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Take a Walk on the Mild Side with Sierra Nevada’s Wild Little Thing

The "slightly sour" ale will quench your thirst for tartness without leaving your lips in a pucker.

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Upland Elevates the Lowly Brown Ale with Darken

Darken is a barrel-aged sour brown ale brewed with “nearly the entire spice rack."

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Rahr & Sons Rumpy Redeems Pumpkin Ales

The rum barrel-aged pumpkin ale snubs the style’s typical sweetness in favor of bold booziness.

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Prairie’s Rainbow Sherbet Is a Sip of Nostalgia

It’s a major gamble to take a shot at capturing such a distinct flavor in beer form, but with Rainbow Sherbet, Prairie absolutely nails it. ​​​​​​​

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Get a Dose of 1920s Luxury with Area Two’s Brett Noir

This wild ale is Brettanomyces-fermented with pinot noir grapes and aged in red wine barrels.

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Lost Abbey’s Framboise de Amorosa Is Simply Stunning

The acclaimed sour experts at Lost Abbey will win you over with this raspberry sour that spends some time in “freshly emptied” red wine barrels.

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Celebrate Oktoberfest in Your Living Room With a Munich Original

Munich’s Hacker-Pschorr Oktoberfest begs to be slugged by the liter, lukewarm from a stein, surrounded by revelers from around the world.

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Flip the Calendar to Fall with Crane’s Omar Porter

Omar is named after the brewer’s late cat, and the beer does its namesake justice with a warming, comforting combination of flavors.

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Abnormal’s Hazy Dreams Is One Dreamy IPA

Abnormal’s Hazy Dreams is a rare hazy IPA that shows why the style became popular in the first place.

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Saint Archer’s Gluten-Reduced IPA Keeps Yosemite Clean

Journey Series No. 1 is a beer you can feel good drinking regardless of the taste—though that happens to be pretty great too.

Beer Reviews

Blast Off with Central Coast's Moonbuggy

Complete with a moon-themed can, the California brewery created a beer that would go great with freeze-dried space food.

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Great Lakes’ Hazy IPA Puts a Midwest Spin on the Style

Hazecraft is the brewery’s first year-round offering available in cans.

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Offshoot’s IPA Game Is Only Getting Stronger with Retreat

The brewery, a sister spot to The Bruery, shows as much care for its IPAs as it would for a delicate wild ale.

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Vote for Iron Monk's Bright D. WeizenSour

The “Tartmander in Chief” delivers a promising platform of sweetness and sourness with each sip.

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Burial’s Innertube Lager Is the Perfect Beer for Right Now

Drink this crisp and refreshing low-ABV lager on the water, outside in the sun, or in your dark “home office” with a ham and cheese for lunch.

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Omnipollo Delivers a Different Kind of Hazy IPA with Lustro

The Swedish brewer combines the best of East and West Coast styles to create a new player in the IPA field.

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Firestone Walker’s Flyjack IPA Is a Great Way to Spend 96 Calories

The low-cal Flyjack certainly hits all the right notes, even if it isn’t at the same volume as a typical hazy IPA.

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Lawson’s Latest IPA Is an Instant Legend

Little Sip follows in the footsteps of Sip of Sunshine as a juicy, fruit-forward IPA that also deserves legendary status.

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Talea’s Mangotango Is a Mouth-Puckering Masterpiece

One of the hottest up-and-coming New York City brewers puts its best foot forward with this “Tart Deco” sour IPA.

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Voodoo Ranger 1985 Is, Like, Totally Crushable to the Max

Grab your fanny pack, New Belgium’s flagship IPA just got a retro makeover.

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Archetype’s Cowboy Poet Is a Lager for Everyone

The Asheville, North Carolina brewery's take on a "lite lager" pairs perfectly with a hot summer day.

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Go Ahead, Drink Clown Shoes' Berry Blender With a Straw

The Boston brewery’s “smoothie IPA” combines fresh berries with a heavy dose of hops.

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Short Throw’s Code of the Streets Is a Splurge-Worthy Hazy

Between their price point and calorie count, most hazy IPAs are an indulgence. Code of the Streets is worth every penny.

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Take a Flavor Trip With Evil Twin's Delightfully Weird Hard Seltzer

Evil Twin gets just as weird with water as it does beer, so I was keen to see how a salted caramel seltzer would taste. Spoiler alert: It's pretty damn good.

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A Spicy and Tropical Ale From ... Alaska?

The geography may not make sense, but the flavor of Alaskan Brewing Company's Pineapple Jalapeño Gose certainly does.

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Other Half’s All Together IPA Is a Great Beer Brewed for an Even Better Cause

Other Hal's All Together IPA—brewed to benefit workers laid off due to COVID-19—stands on its own as a nearly flawless example of a hazy IPA gone right.

Beer Reviews

This Sour Is a Slushie in Beer Form

Oklahoma-based Prairie Artisan Ales conjured up a classic summer treat with its new fruited sour, Slush.

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I Was a Hard Seltzer Hater Until I Tried Night Shift's HOOT

Whether you are a hard seltzer fan or not, Night Shift’s HOOT hard seltzers are absolutely worth checking out.

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Urban Chestnut’s Lager Is No Underdog

Urban Underdog has become the lager of choice in parts of the Midwest, and for good reason.

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Dugges’ Big Idjit Is Dumb Thicc

The Swedish brewer has created a stout that drinks like motor oil and that’s a good thing.

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Hi-Wire's Flagship IPA Rises Above the Crowd

The excellence of the Asheville-based brewery’s flagship IPA, Hi-Pitch Mosaic, has remained consistent.

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Goose Island's So-Lo IPA Aims High

This is one of the best low-calorie IPAs we've ever had.

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Bearded Iris Homestyle Tastes Like Home

The Nashville-based brewery brought the haze craze to Tennessee.

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Half Acre's Double Daisy Cutter Only Improves on the Classic

The original Daisy Cutter is a stunner, and this version manages to achieve the same heights—even if it does so differently.

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Give Yourself to the Dark Side with Great Lakes Blackout Stout

Blackout Stout is a case study in how to layer roasty, bitter, and sweet flavors in an imperial stout.

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WeldWerks Juicy Bits Is a Distinctly Denver Juice Bomb

Juicy Bits is a triple-threat of an IPA: it looks good, smells good, and tastes great.

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Don’t Drink Odell’s Isolation Ale Alone

Odell’s Isolation Ale is a rare sessionable winter warmer that trades cloying spice for easy-drinking balance.

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Prairie's Christmas Bomb! Explodes With Spice

Prairie’s Christmas Bomb! is a cinnamon-infused imperial stout that beats the hell out of after-dinner coffee and anxiety about work tomorrow.

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Great Lakes Christmas Ale Tastes Like Christmas

Great Lakes Christmas Ale is nearly the perfect holiday beer.

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Modern Times Space Ways Is a Uniquely Delicious Hazy IPA

The San Diego-based brewer's Nelson-hopped IPA stands out in every way.

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Rare Barrel’s Flower to Flower, a Sour That Smells Like an IPA

The Berkeley, California brewery chucks straight-off-the-vine Chinook and Cascade hops into a golden sour base beer.

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Enjoy WeldWerks’ Breakfast for Three All by Yourself

Weldwerks teamed up with Mikerphone and Great Notion to brew a maple syrup and Peruvian coffee infused imperial stout.

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Ignore Your Instincts and Trust in Crooked Stave’s Hazy IPA

The Denver-based brewery, better known for its wild ales, has produced a standout.

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It's Always a Good Day for a Guinness

This nearly 300-year-old beer is quaffable year-round, drinkable at nearly any temperature, and light enough to enjoy more than one pint.

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Bell’s Doubles Down on a Classic with Double Two Hearted

The double IPA iteration of the classic boasts two and a half times the Centennial hops and a whopping 11.0% ABV.

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Funkwerks Saison Needs More Funk

Based on an award-winning homebrew recipe, Funkwerks Saison is a good, solid beer—but it could use a little more funk for balance.

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Nightmare’s Exposure IPA Is Decidedly Better Than Death by Freezing

Nightmare's imperial IPA Exposure—named after freezing torture—maximizes flavor and aroma through the use of cryo-frozen Citra and Mosaic hops.

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Defiance’s Twisted Logik May Be the Best IPA in Kansas

Defiance Brewing Company’s flagship IPA Twisted Logik may be the best in a state that is becoming crowded with quality offerings.

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Alaskan Brewing’s Kölsch Might Be the Best Kölsch

Maybe it’s because Alaskan uses glacier-fed water from the Juneau Ice Field, but the beer tastes cleaner and crisper than most of the style.

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Jackie O’s Put 420 Pounds of Raspberries In This Beer, But It Wasn’t Enough

The Ohio brewery's fruited wheat ale is a little light on the fruit.

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Tree House's Lights Out Is a Near-Perfect Pale Ale

Tree House’s IPAs and double IPAs are world-class, but don’t pass over one of the brewery’s earliest offerings in Lights Out pale ale.

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Decadent’s Multiflora DIPA Has Lots of Potential

Decadent Ales’ double dry-hopped double IPA Multiflora has the hop profile of a single IPA with the malty sweetness and ABV of a double.

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SweetWater’s Costa Kick Plastic Pilsner Wants to Save the Oceans

SweetWater partnered with sunglasses brand Costa on Kick Plastic Pilsner to raise awareness about plastic waste in oceans and waterways.

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Jackie O’s Scrip Is a Shining Example of an Obscure Beer Style

Grisette is a tart, low-alcohol beer historically enjoyed by miners. Jackie O’s take on the style, Scrip, does justice to this overlooked brew.

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Toppling Goliath's Hopsmack! Is One of the Best Double IPAs Available

You heard it here first: This tropical hop bomb DIPA from Toppling Goliath is even better than the brewery's beloved King Sue.

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Forget the Creepy Clown—This Pale Ale Is a Party in a Can

Are We Having Fun Yet? from Ohio-based Hoof Hearted Brewing is double dry-hopped fruit bomb "party pale ale."

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Omnipollo’s Aon Pecan Mud Takes Chocolate and Nuts to the Extreme

This is an example of a beer with too much of a good thing.

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Lagunitas Hoppy Refresher Is Zero-Alcohol, Zero-Calorie, and Totally Delicious

It looks like sparkling water but tastes like a fruity IPA—perfect for those times when you want a beer without the booze.

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We Want More of Untitled Art and Mikerphone’s Double Dry-Hopped IPA

There is something to be said for zigging when everyone else zags, and this collab does just that.

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Urban Artifact’s The Gadget Is a Delicious Sucker-Punch of Sour

The Gadget, Urban Artifact's “Midwest Fruit Tart Ale,” features a literal ton of fresh berries per batch and a mouth-walloping sour flavor.

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Shadow Work Doesn't Live Up to Grimm's Stellar Reputation

While Grimm turns out way more hits than misses from its Brookyn-based facility, one of those rare misses is its dark sour Shadow Work.

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The Latest Edition of Prism Is All About Tropical Hops

The newest beer in Perennial Artisan Ales's single hop series showcases the tropical fruit flavors of Mosaic hops.

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Blackberry Farm's Classic Saison Is Almost Too Good for Cans

Blackberry Farm's Classic Saison tastes like it should come straight from an ancient Belgian brewery, not poured from a can you bought at a grocery store.

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Dogfish Head’s Slightly Mighty: Everything a Low-Calorie IPA Should Be

Low-carb, low-calorie beers are on the rise, and Dogfish Head has entered the field with Slightly Mighty, a low-cal IPA.

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Sierra Nevada’s Sierraveza Is Good, But It Won’t Replace Your Summer Lager

Sierra Nevada’s Sierraveza is a good beer. It’s probably even good on the beach, but pretty much all beers hold up in that setting.

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Omission IPA Is Missing More Than Gluten

Omission's gluten-reduced IPA stays balanced with a hefty punch of Northwest hops, but it's more about what isn't there than what is.

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Lagunitas DayTime IPA Doesn’t Shine All the Time

Lagunitas has jumped on the low-carb and low-calorie trend with DayTime, a session IPA that clocks in at 98 calories.

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Boulevard’s Easy Sport Is in a Class All Its Own

The Kansas City contender in the new wave of low-cal, low-carb ales comes out of the gate ahead of the pack.

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Crooked Stave’s Trellis Buster Is Everything I Want In an IPA

Denver-based Crooked Stave is better known for its stellar sour program, but its take on a hazy double IPA hit nearly every note I look for in a beer.

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Boulder Beer’s Hazed & Infused Paved the Way for Today’s IPA

Before there was the hazy IPA, there was Hazed & Infused, Boulder Beer Company's unfiltered pale ale that has been in production since 2002.

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Saint Archer's Mexican Lager Is a Summer Crusher

Crisp, clean, and refreshing, Saint Archer's Mexican Lager begs for a wedge of lime and a sunny day.

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SweetWater’s Peach, Love & Happiness Is Anything But

I snapped up SweetWater’s Peach, Love & Happiness with no thought of how the brewery's best offerings are hop-forward. That proved to be a mistake.

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Great Divide’s Denver Pale Ale Goes Its Own Way

Bucking the tropical and hazy trend, Great Divide's signature Denver Pale Ale is dank and sticky, leaning into a flavor profile that captures its roots.

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Almanac’s Dogpatch Currant Is the Berries

San Francisco-based Almanac Beer Company's Dogpatch Currant brings the strong sweet and tart flavors of blackcurrants to a base of sour red ale.

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Fat Orange Cat's White Stout Puts Novelty Before Flavor

Packing all the roasty and deep flavors of a stout into a light-colored beer is tough, and Fat Orange Cat Brew Co.'s All Cats Are Gray in the Dark proves why.

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Bearded Iris’ Ever Clever, Now Double Dry-Hopped, Approaches Perfection

Bearded Iris takes an already brag-worthy double IPA and amps up the hops with an additional dose of Simcoe, Mosaic, Motueka, and Centennial.

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Jester King's RU55 Is Here to Ruin Every Other Sour

Jester King's bottled-conditioned sour red all RU55 should be a challenging drink. Instead, layers of fruit, wood, and funk balance the tartness beautifully.

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Toppling Goliath Eyes IPA Perfection with Golden Nugget

Toppling Goliath’s pseudoSue and King Sue are two of the best beers not only in the brewery's portfolio, but in the entire pale ale landscape.

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Foothills Sexual Chocolate, An Imperial Stout That Lives Up to Its Name

For a beer to be called sexual, it’d better deliver, and Foothills Brewing's Sexual Chocolate sure does.

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Off Color’s Dino Smores Leaves Me Not Wanting S’more

While the idea is to mimic the flavor of the campfire favorite, Off Color's Dino Smores falls more than a little short.

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Oskar Blues’ Mama’s Little Yella Pils Is Still a Standout Pilsner

Mama’s Little Yella Pils from Colorado-based Oskar Blues Brewery is a light, crisp, and easy-drinking pilsner that also brings plenty of aroma and flavor.

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Wicked Weed’s Hop Cocoa Porter Is Best Left Out in the Cold

Wicked Weed's Hop Cocoa misses the hot cocoa mark and delivers an entirely average hoppy porter instead.

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It’s Easy to Forget Firestone Walker’s Easy Jack Is a Session IPA

Weighing in at 4.5% ABV, Firestone Walker’s Easy Jack IPA boasts the complexity and flavor of a much stronger beer.

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I Was Brutally Wrong About New Belgium’s Brut IPA

The latest major entry in the Brut IPA category is a well-balanced beer from Colorado's New Belgium.

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Shiner Holiday Cheer Bottles the Spirit of the Season

A light-drinking dunkelweizen, Spoetzel's Shiner Holiday Cheer somehow feels more in the spirit of the season than most winter warmers.

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Prairie Artisan Ales' Double Dunk Stout Is Full of Oreos—Literally

With Double Dunk, Prairie Artisan Ales has made an imperial stout aged on more than 700 pounds of Oreo cookies per batch.

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New Holland’s The Poet Is a Dark and Brooding Oatmeal Stout

Drinkers shouldn’t overlook New Holland’s toned down, but well-crafted oatmeal stout.

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Founders Trigo Brings the Hoppy Spanish Lager Stateside

Founders Brewing Co. worked with Mahou San Miguel to craft a hoppy wheat lager called Trigo, the Spanish word for wheat.

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Get Lost in Lost Coast Brewing’s Fogcutter Double IPA

This big, bitter double IPA is dry-hopped with five different hops and clocks in at 8.7% ABV.

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Why Brewers Are Turning Their Attention to Single-Hop Beers

Single-hop beers feature only one type of hop in the recipe, giving drinkers and brewers an education in the unique flavors and aromas of a specific hop.

Beer Reviews

4 Hands Chocolate Milk Stout Proves Chocolate Milk Isn’t Just for Kids

4 Hands Brewing Co. rethinks the lunch room staple with its milky sweet Chocolate Milk Stout, using pounds of cacao nibs.

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Deschutes Black Butte Porter Is a Flagship-Worthy Beer

Few breweries hang its hat on a porter, and even fewer craft the style to be a flagship offering.

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We Hope Half Acre’s GoneAway IPA Never Goes Away

Skip the long line for the latest haze and head to the beer store for Half Acre's GoneAway IPA before seasons change.

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Odell Plays It Safe, But Sound, with Oktoberfest

Odell’s Oktoberfest does little to distinguish itself from the malty sweet märzens crowding the market every fall, but that isn’t an indictment.

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Saint Archer Brewing Embraces the Craze with a Sort-of-Hazy IPA

The San Diego-based brewery crafted the beer to feature low bitterness and a minimal malt profile.

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Burial Beer Co.’s Bonedagger Plays a Game of Sensory Deception

Burial's Bonedagger pairs a hop-heavy aroma with a wheat-prominent flavor for a unique take on the American pale.

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Alesmith's Oktoberfest AleSchmidt Fails to Impress

AleSmith's Oktoberfest needs something to separate it from the pack of faintly German-style lagers appearing across shelves and tap lists each fall.

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Great Divide Brewery Makes a Hoss of an Oktoberfest

Great Divide takes its shot at the Oktoberfest style with an ambitious lager in Hoss.

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Dogfish Head’s Punkin Ale Is a Punkin Fail

Spices dominate Punkin Ale, but the flavor is more stale and medicinal than warm and toasty.

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Sierra Nevada’s 2018 Oktoberfest Is a Bavarian Beauty

Sierra Nevada produces excellent German-inspired Oktoberfests year after year, and the 2018 version is no exception.

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Founders' Mosaic Promise, a Single-Hop IPA for Fall

Mosaic hops promise big aroma, and Mosaic Promise delivers with huge blueberry and mango notes.

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Ballast Point's Dead Ringer Is Mostly Dead on Arrival

Loads of toasted malt pit an off-putting bitterness against the beer's more pleasing flavor notes.

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Dogfish Head’s Fruit-Full Fort Is a Booze Bomb

At 18.0% ABV, Fruit-Full Fort is a sipper and a prime candidate for aging.

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Odell’s Cloud Catcher Is Not Your Typical Hazy IPA

With Cloud Catcher, Odell establishes a new ceiling for the hazy IPA.

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Lawson's Sip of Sunshine Is a Perfect IPA

A trailblazer that unintentionally helped kick off the hazy IPA trend, Sip of Sunshine from Lawson's Finest Liquids is a whale worth chasing.

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Half Acre’s Fader Blends the Best of Both Worlds

Despite brewing with all traditional German ingredients, Fader feels like a blend of the best of both German and American pilsners.

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Say 'Aloha' to Avery’s Liliko’i Kepolo

The Boulder-based Avery Brewing channels its aloha spirit with a Hawaiian-flavor-infused brew.

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Surly’s Todd the Axe Man is a Viking King IPA

In Todd the Axe Man, Surly follows a time-tested recipe for IPA success.

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Wiseacre’s Tiny Bomb Explodes with Flavor

Tiny Bomb is highly quaffable while remaining interesting, packing waves of flavor into a low-ABV beer explosion.

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3 Floyds and the Robot Warrior Necron 99

This unique take on the IPA style makes for a memorable flavor ride.

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Surly’s Xtra-Citra Earns its Name

Naming a beer after a hop can be a risky move, unless the brewer is ready to fully commit.

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Vallejo Is Half Acre’s Nearly Perfect IPA

Vallejo tastes like a beer you brew, tweak and brew again to make a great beer.

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Avery's Bug Zapper Needs to Work the Bugs Out

Maybe it is the name playing tricks, but the mint and ginger combination gives off grassy, herbal hints of citronella.

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Old Style Crashes the World Beer Cup

Meet 2018's World Beer Cup Gold Medal-winning American-style lager.

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Do You Realize Dogfish Head and The Flaming Lips Made a Beer?

The Record Store Day collaboration is loaded with dragon fruit, yumberry, passion fruit, pear and black carrot juice.

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Elysian’s Superfuzz is Fuzzy in the Right Places

A blood orange pale ale to convert even the most vocal fruit-beer-haters.

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Golden Road’s Wolf Pup is a Session IPA to Drink All Day

"Wolf Pup may be my new go to session IPA."

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Get Toasted by the Campfire

The amber lager is Blue Point’s flagship beer, derived from a combination of six types of grains.

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The Trouble with Troublesome

Tart lemon and peppery coriander come together in this well-balanced beer.

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Sierra Nevada's Hazy IPA is Caught in Between

Sierra Nevada taps into the haze craze with a mass-market, unfiltered IPA.

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A Worthy Whale

Founders' bourbon barrel-aged stout remains one of the best.

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Jam On with Boulevard This Summer

Under the right circumstances—paired with some sunshine—it’s a beer that is worth the gamble.

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Big Beer-Style Meets Craft Beer-Nuance

Welcome to the era of craft lagers.

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The Dank Treasure Which You Seek

This marijuana-inspired brew has become one of Lagunita's best.

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The Original West Coast IPA

Before there was a West Coast IPA trend there was Alpine's Pure Hoppiness.

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Dessert in a Can

Save room for Oskar Blue's pastry-like coconut porter.

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Fee Fi Fo Fum is a Gentle Giant

Odell is one of the latest breweries to put its ABV-bombs in smaller bottles.

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Save The Last Alpha King, But Not Too Long

A worthy beer for the right moment.

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Bell’s Signature Stout Hits Most of the Right Notes

It's always good, but was it great this year?

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Airport Beer Doesn't Have to Suck

You might find this more often now. Who cares. It's great.

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Surviving New Year's Day With Roadhouse Brewing

The party doesn't have to stop, it just has to mellow out.

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Founders Canadian Breakfast Stout is Worth the Wait

It's been a while, but this is a masterpiece.

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Add Zombie Dust to Your Beer Bucket List

Nuanced, but bold.

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Firestone Walker, Heavy on the Rye

Rye thank you I'll try this big, fruity DIPA.

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Mocha Merlin Pulls Plenty of Flavor for an Oatmeal Stout

Oatmeal stouts can be thin and lacking in flavor. Not this one.

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Time for a Celebration, Sierra Style

Celebrate the hunt, with a beer unlike many others.

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Crooked Tree is a Dark Horse in its Own State

Don't sleep on Michigan's lesser known flagship IPA.

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Founders for a Stout, Anytime Breakfast

Breakfast anytime brings us all to the table.

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AleSmith Double Red Dares Winter to Come

Try a different sort of winter beer.

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Founders Harvest Provides a Fall Respite

A perfect way to bridge summer's sessions and winter's stouts.

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Stone's Vengeful Spirit Sent to Haunt Us?

Those chunky bits floating in your beer... where they a good idea?

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Wait, Does Everything Rhyme With Orange?

A great New England IPA from...Oklahoma?

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The Eighth Love Child Enough to Make the Ninth Desirable

Even the drawbacks don't stop the eighth Love Child.

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Odell's Rupture Takes Freshness to a New Level

Fresh grind technology = plus aroma, complex taste.

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Santa Fe Oktoberfest Brings a Little Fruit to Fall

Just a bit of melon, while being true to style.

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Pumpkin, Sure, But Pumpkin Shandy?

Even if you like pumpkin beers, and shandies, you may not like this pumpkin shandy.

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Atomic Pumpkin Drops a Pepper Bomb in your Pumpkin Beer

New Belgium puts the pepper in the pumpkin.

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Is Sam Adams' Octoberfest Still What it Used to Be?

A beer stuck between two poles.

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Prairie Expresses Itself with Flare

Goses are a great summer beer.

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All Day Easy to Drink, But Full Tasting

It's a session IPA, but Founder's All Day IPA is big on flavor.

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Prairie's Stout is the Bomb

Even if you don't love chiles in your beer, you will probably love this beer.

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A Two Hearted Champion, Still Ticking

It may not be the hip new beer, but Bell's Two Hearted is the classic that works in all contexts.

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Is This the Perfect Beer for the Craft Convert?

Bring this beer to your mixed-company barbecue, for them as much as you.

Openings / Closings

Summer's Brewery & Bar Openings & Closings

Peter Bouckaert left New Belgium to start this new project, plus short tidbits on other notable openings and closings.

Openings / Closings

Spring's Brewery & Bar Openings & Closings

Want to know about the most interesting new breweries opening up? Or old favorites shutting the doors? Here's our spring report.

Travel ( 1 )
Northeast

Two Days in Portland, Maine

Go drinking (and hiking and eating and walking) in the Forest City, you won't regret it.

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