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Flavor of the Month | Full Pour

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Flavor of the Month | Full Pour

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The New Economics of Craft Beer | SevenFifty Daily

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The New Economics of Craft Beer | SevenFifty Daily

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Grape Expectations: Why Breweries Are Embracing Winemaking | The New York Times

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Grape Expectations: Why Breweries Are Embracing Winemaking | The New York Times

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Take It Easy: How Breweries Are Simplifying Things for Success | Imbibe

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Take It Easy: How Breweries Are Simplifying Things for Success | Imbibe

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The Cult of Busch Light Apple | VinePair

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The Cult of Busch Light Apple | VinePair

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Can Taproom Chains Offset Lagging Beer Sales? | SevenFifty Daily

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Can Taproom Chains Offset Lagging Beer Sales? | SevenFifty Daily

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RIP IPA: The Life, and Afterlife, of IPA Styles | VinePair

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RIP IPA: The Life, and Afterlife, of IPA Styles | VinePair

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Craft Brewing Considers a New Creed: Less Is More | The New York Times

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Craft Brewing Considers a New Creed: Less Is More | The New York Times

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Hard Tea: A Sweet Opportunity for Breweries and Beverage Companies | First Key

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Hard Tea: A Sweet Opportunity for Breweries and Beverage Companies | First Key

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Beer Industry Trends to Watch for 2024 | SevenFifty Daily

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Beer Industry Trends to Watch for 2024 | SevenFifty Daily

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Do I just come up with event ideas to wear a hot dog costume? Uh, yes.

After writing a VinePair article about breweries running meat raffles, I was like, I want to run a meat raffle too! Because right now, the world needs a bit more fun and communi

Each year for @sevenfiftydaily, I canvas brewing industry stakeholders to create a comprehensive road map for the coming year in beer. More than ever, a cloud of negativity covers an industry roiled by erratic tariffs, spiking costs, declining consum

Live, Laugh, Love in the dive-bar bathroom @uncleleoscincy? Why not. I’ll take a little positivity just about anywhere this year. Here’s to flushing away 2025. And into the future we go! Happy New Year, indeed.

A little December photo dump filled with all the weird Christmas decorations, concerts, matzo ball soup, solstice fires and a few great beers over the last month. Plus Prince as you’ve likely never seen him. Hope everyone is hanging tough this

As a writer, finding negative narratives in craft beer is a breeze. Sales are declining. Closures are climbing. Let’s blame all those IPAs! Or Gen Z! Or THC!

Instead of focusing on deflating news, though, @vinepair asked me to do another editi

Before November disappears, a few highlights from the last few weeks: Violet turned 12 and we celebrated with a dozen donuts! I rode in the local Cranksgiving food drive! And bought smoked turkeys for our 17-person Thanksgiving from a BBQ truck in a

During craft beer’s 2010s heyday, breweries created objects of dark desire by redoubling stouts’ ABVs, adding cocoa nibs and coconut to evoke liquefied candy bars, and aging the roasty beers in bourbon barrels. Creative extravagances led

Post-Halloween post for posterity and proof of life to show that, yet again, I dressed up like a hot dog for, like, the seventh year in a row. Best per-wear purchase o’ my life. Also: I stood on a street corner with strangers turned friends and

Halloween hellscape roundup from morning walks around the neighborhood at, oh, 730am. Halloween: the very best season. It’s nearly time to dust off the hot dog costume. #halloween

It’s amazing what you can fit into two days in New York City when you put your mind to it. And don’t sleep. Scenes from a fast 48 hours in NYC for @covertcocktailclub’a wedding, including human pony rides, plenty of dumplings, visit