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And he’s not totally wrong.
As the beer market continues to get more crowded, some brewers are eyeing wine as a way to diversity their offerings and attract new customers.
This employee of the month walks on four paws and gets paid in cuddles.
Local breweries have helped revitalize deindustrialized neighborhoods from Buffalo to Cleveland.
Berlin's beer scene has been long dominated by men, but women in the industry "don’t care what beer was and is and if there’s something to defend or not.”
This week's best new beers.
Jester King’s former head brewer on her new solo project, Keeping Together.
A modified version of the classic arcade mainstay is appearing at bars across the US and dispensing hard seltzer.
"It smells like you’re drinking a bag of weed,” B-Real says about his new collaboration with the Atlanta, Georgia brewery.
With Captain Pabst, the macrobrewery behind PBR hopes to upgrade its image.
Beer and cider won’t stop the bushfires, but they can help.
The original Daisy Cutter is a stunner, and this version manages to achieve the same heights—even if it does so differently.
Mezcal’s smooth, complex cousin is about to step into the craft beer spotlight.
The Texas cider-maker's seasonal offering is basically hot apple cider in alcoholic form… served cold, of course.
Moody Tongue's new brewery, restaurant, and bar offers up a 12-course tasting menu paired with Asian pear saison and chocolate barleywine.
Jing-A Brewing is on a mission to bring Chinese craft beer to the world—and they're just getting started.
Not to disparage the good name of Spotted Cow, but Wisconsin's New Glarus routinely does better with this stellar pale ale.
Early sobriety can be alienating at times. So when a friend invited me to start playing Magic: The Gathering with her at a local game shop, I figured, why not?
Blackout Stout is a case study in how to layer roasty, bitter, and sweet flavors in an imperial stout.
Why have no beer when you could just have lots and lots of non-alcoholic beer?
December was the highest-scoring month of 2019. Here are the beers (including one perfect 100) we’ll be drinking well into the new decade.
Heavy on fresh citrus flavors with a subtle hint of earthy pine, this Chicago-made brew is no imposter.
Which one are you?
The reactions on Twitter have been… mixed.
Juicy Bits is a triple-threat of an IPA: it looks good, smells good, and tastes great.
New Year’s resolutions start now.
The brewers didn't initially intend to create this sweet winter seasonal, but we're sure glad they did.
The classic European-style lager is low on ABV but big on malt flavor.
Are hazy IPAs here to stay? Are alternatives to White Claw coming? We asked brewers.
Because the only thing better than being the Beer Person at the party is being the Beer and Cheese Person.
Vermont changed the beer game for a half-decade, and now Shacksbury is trying to do the same for cider.
Check out all of our favorite beers, destinations, interviews, and more from this year.
What we learned about the Marlboro man, porn, and bad bars during our best interviews of the year.
Here are some of our very favorite bottles that cracked the 10% ABV mark.
Tröegs' deliciously boozy Belgian strong dark ale clocks in at 11% ABV with the decadent flavors of caramel, cherries, and spice.
Dir En Grey have been thrashing hard for over 20 years. We caught up with them before their sold-out New York show.
Brewers are now keenly aware that to stand out in the crowded craft marketplace, you have to look your best.
Rogue Ales' Santa’s Private Reserve 2019 is infused with the flavor of candy cap mushrooms, and that is a very good thing.
Hit the like button if you’re a fan of houseplants, cute puppies, and cool beer cans.
Here are the very strangest brews of an extremely strange year.
With its truly artisanal approach to brewing and new generation of ambitious brewers, Mexico should be on your 2020 travel list.
In Virginia, Christmas doesn’t start until Hardywood releases Gingerbread Stout, and it’s easy to understand why.
Estonia's craft brewers employ ingredients like birch, cloudberries, and sea buckthorn as a way to connect to both the land and their heritage.
Odell’s Isolation Ale is a rare sessionable winter warmer that trades cloying spice for easy-drinking balance.
From clear to cloudy, fruit-forward to double-dry-hopped, these are our favorite IPAs of the year.
2019 was the year of hard seltzer, but in 2020 non-alcoholic hard seltzer brands will be vying for a piece of the bubbly pie.
Is that too much too ask?
The Eugene, Oregon brewery breaks all the rules with its turbo-charged altbier.
Ever heard of Svinninge? This brewery is about to put this tiny town on the global craft beer map in a big way.
Proceed with caution if you’re breaking one of these bad boys open at the holiday party. Your shindig might be over before it begins.
A recent study put the theory of tapping shaken beer cans to the test with 1,000 cans of beer.
Prairie’s Christmas Bomb! is a cinnamon-infused imperial stout that beats the hell out of after-dinner coffee and anxiety about work tomorrow.
Brewery Vivant in Grand Rapids employs a carbon reclamation system and solar power, and it could be a model for the rest of the beer industry.
Alpha Klaus is the cool cousin who rides into Christmas dinner on a Harley.
Carakale has been breaking new ground for a decade and they’re about to start shipping cans to the U.S.
From limited-edition glassware to the year's best books, our gift guide will help you find the perfect present for beer fans.
Three Monkeys brews beer unlike anything else in Brazil, like white IPAs and goses made with oysters, squid ink, and even curry.
Inspired bye Hefeweizen, it’s hazy, creamy, clove-y, and still able to warm you up on a cold night.
For the 45th iteration of its festive brew, Anchor Brewing layered on the flavor.
Schlafly’s mead-spritzer is a White Claw alternative with pronounceable ingredients.
In Europe’s most up-and-coming craft beer scene, brewing is influenced by the ancient tradition of sauna.
For 15 years, Rush River’s Winter Warmer has been fortifying chilly drinkers throughout the midwest.
Great Lakes Christmas Ale is nearly the perfect holiday beer.
From a glorious imperial stout with Peruvian coffee to a surprising schwarzbier, here’s what our review team stans right now.
The San Diego-based brewer's Nelson-hopped IPA stands out in every way.
Think: log cabins, roaring fires, and plenty of craft lagers, porters and stouts on tap.
Freigeist Bierkultur salvaged old beer bottles and archival recipes to bring a historical gose back from the dead.
Somehow one of the best times of the year can end up being the most stressful if you aren’t prepared—namely, with beer.
If you like pickles, you'll love the Martin House Brewing Company's pickle gose.
Originally from Baghdad, Omar Al-Nidawi left his war-torn home for the States, where he recently became president of his local homebrewers club.
If it’s wrong put marshmallow in an imperial mocha stout, I don’t want to be right.
The best new beers released on Black Friday 2019.
Oregon-based pFriem Family Brewers has crafted an IPA that combines expected piney aromas and big hop flavor with tons of citrus.
Our Mutual Friend's commitment to local artists is just one of the ways it fosters a sense of community in the middle of the city's hottest neighborhood.
All of the reasons that craft beer fans don’t like hard seltzer are also all of the reasons why it works perfectly for a mixed crowd.
The chef shares his thoughts on pairing lambics, goses, and ice-cold lagers with noodles.
Grab a plate of cookies and a beer and snuggle in with one of these cult favorite films.
Melvin and Toppling Goliath's Ladder Mash is a heavyweight collab that fans will be lining up to see.
The founder of Sufferfest loved her post-run brews until an autoimmune condition got in the way. Rather than give them up, she made better beer for all.
The Berkeley, California brewery chucks straight-off-the-vine Chinook and Cascade hops into a golden sour base beer.
If you want that juice box experience in your nightly pint, this faithful re-interpretation of Hi-C offers exactly that.
Italian, French, and even New Zealand pilsners are on the rise in the States.
White Claw owns half the market, but a wave of craft releases are poised to change that.
Brewers are using this never-ending process as inspiration for beers.
We shared a pint with the Bloodshot Records founder and Mekons frontman.
Weldwerks teamed up with Mikerphone and Great Notion to brew a maple syrup and Peruvian coffee infused imperial stout.
If you didn’t know where to look, it would be easy to think of Mexico City’s brewing industry as a man’s world, but these women are proving otherwise.
The Baltimore brewery's schwarzbier is jam-packed with roasty, chocolatey rich goodness while still being super-light and crushable.
We dare you to look away from this infinitely looping #beer content.
Kanpai combined traditional Japanese sake brewing methods with beer ingredients to create a product that's unique to London.
You know, just in case you needed yet another way to get your cannabis.
