Beer Reviews
Sam Adams Nitro
All About Beer has the first review I’ve seen of the brand new nitro beers from Sam Adams. Seems like it was a bit of…
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Profiles of craft breweries worth knowing — the backstories, the flagships, and the ones you should go out of your way to visit.
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Japan’s craft beer scene–whodathunkit?
Found via reddit, this Danish traveler’s accounting of his tour of Japan is fascinating on many levels. I decided to get as much liquid culture…
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See ya in hell, 2015.
Just kidding. I really like session IPA and gose–I hope those trends become permanent, frankly. But if you’re already looking ahead to the year to…
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Are beers getting generally crappier?
Michael Agnew at GrowlerMag seems to think so. I’m talking about beer with real, quantifiable flaws. I mean seriously under-attenuated beers that taste like wort.…
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New Belgium is (maybe?) looking for a buyer
Reuters gave us the not-so-secret over the weekend. Employee-owned New Belgium Brewing Company, which owns craft beer brand Fat Tire, is looking for a buyer…
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College Beer Playoffs
CraftBeer.com started what I hope will be a grand tradition: a college craft beer playoff. I examined the top ten college football teams according to five…
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Cheers, Star Wars fans!
You knew it was coming… The marketing is strong with this one. Wit’s End has already begun their celebration, previewing one of their Star Wars…
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2015’s best new IPAs
Mostly-wine-sometimes-beer site Vinepair has an interesting list. I do like the humility in this disclaimer: Here are eight of the best and most interesting new…
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Dogfish Head World Wide Stout returns November 2016
Not much else to say about this other than man your harpoons, whale-hunters. In case you’re unfamiliar, this is a truly gigantic stout that is…
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Founders Brewing’s Dave Engbers talks swinging for the fences
Paste has a short interview with Dave about how they really turned it around with Dirty Bastard. Dirty Bastard was really the beer that got…