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Pints With a Side of Politics | October

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Pints With a Side of Politics | October

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The Best-Looking Beer Can Designs in America | Ceros

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The Best-Looking Beer Can Designs in America | Ceros

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Kiss From a Rosé | Wine Enthusiast

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Kiss From a Rosé | Wine Enthusiast

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Home Is Where the Beer Is | Imbibe Magazine

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Home Is Where the Beer Is | Imbibe Magazine

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Unfiltered and Unpretentious: A New, Old Wave in Craft Beer | The New York Times

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Unfiltered and Unpretentious: A New, Old Wave in Craft Beer | The New York Times

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Imbibe 75 for 2018 Is Dope & Dank | Imbibe Magazine

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Imbibe 75 for 2018 Is Dope & Dank | Imbibe Magazine

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Small Wonders: Why Breweries Are Putting Big Beers in Tiny Packages | October

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Small Wonders: Why Breweries Are Putting Big Beers in Tiny Packages | October

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The Absolute Best Caribbean Food and Restaurants in Crown Heights | New York Magazine

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The Absolute Best Caribbean Food and Restaurants in Crown Heights | New York Magazine

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Grape Expectations: Barley Wine and Cheese | Culture

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Grape Expectations: Barley Wine and Cheese | Culture

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Why Breweries Are Using Winemaking Techniques | Wine Enthusiast

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Why Breweries Are Using Winemaking Techniques | Wine Enthusiast

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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

Now that we’re livin’ in Columbus, we’re trying to take advantage of being within a three-hour drive of a ton of cities we rarely got the chance to explore. Which meant 36 hours in Pittsburgh last weekend with old friends.

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