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The Cutting-Edge Ingredients Making IPAs More Pungent | VinePair

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The Cutting-Edge Ingredients Making IPAs More Pungent | VinePair

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Inside the Dirty World of Cleaning Tap Lines | CraftBeer.com

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Inside the Dirty World of Cleaning Tap Lines | CraftBeer.com

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What Happened to Magic Hat #9 | VinePair

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What Happened to Magic Hat #9 | VinePair

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How Breweries Are Betting Big on Nonalcoholic Beer | Imbibe

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How Breweries Are Betting Big on Nonalcoholic Beer | Imbibe

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The State of Beer in Columbus, Ohio | Columbus Monthly

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The State of Beer in Columbus, Ohio | Columbus Monthly

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Turn on the Light (Lagers) | First Key Consulting

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Turn on the Light (Lagers) | First Key Consulting

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The Craft Brewing Industry Hits a Speed Bump | The New York Times

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The Craft Brewing Industry Hits a Speed Bump | The New York Times

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Burn It Down: Why Breweries Are Hosting Christmas-Tree Bonfires | VinePair

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Burn It Down: Why Breweries Are Hosting Christmas-Tree Bonfires | VinePair

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Fizzed Out? Nah. Why Breweries Are Still Launching Hard Seltzers | VinePair

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Fizzed Out? Nah. Why Breweries Are Still Launching Hard Seltzers | VinePair

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Hot Stuff: How Breweries Are Turning Up the Temperature on Winter Beer | Imbibe

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Hot Stuff: How Breweries Are Turning Up the Temperature on Winter Beer | Imbibe

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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.

Outdoor

Over the last year or so, I've been watching the emergence of the "mid-strength" category of beers that deliver big flavor while minimizing alcohol. The beers, which include pilsners, radlers and IPAs alike, typically weigh in around 2 to 3