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Beer Cocktails – Yay or Nay?

For better or worse, I’ve started seeing a lot more beer cocktails showing up on menus. These range from your garden variety Shandies and Radlers…

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Like Beer? Try Whiskey!

SommBeer–a pretty cool blog if you haven’t checked it out before–has some advice for the craft beer fan on how to approach whiskey. Whiskey and…

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Happy Birthday, America!

Independence Day is a fine reminder of our country’s relationship with and contributions to beer.  From a founding father being plastered on a zillion bottles of…

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Breweries

Brewers adapt to changing climate

Brewing has been a highly adaptive endeavor  for hundreds of years.  Everything from using the abundance of the wheat crop to adjusting recipes to new…

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States ranked by “most solid” beer

Beer graphs compared the BAR25 (the combined aggregate quality of the top quarter of a brewery’s offering) and solid% state by state.  The results are…

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Great article on beer aging

Complete with a review of an 18-year-old (!!) barleywine. There’s a ton of great info, getting into the weeds with the specifics: You’ll also notice…

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