Beer
First brewed at least 5,000 years ago, beer is one of the oldest and most universally consumed alcoholic drinks. It is usually made from cereals, most frequently malted barley, but other ingredients can be used, such as wheat, corn, or rice. In the majority of cases, hops are added to the process (originally as a preservative), although in centuries past other flavorings were used. Today, a whole host of flavored beers exist, ranging from conventional ingredients such as fruit to crazier additions including bacon, donuts, and rocky mountain oysters (aka bull testicles). The most popular beer style, however, is the easy-drinking pale lager style. It used to be thought that beer in cans was inferior quality to beer in bottles, and that there was a safety worry over the use of aluminum, but that is no longer the case. Cans are perfectly safe and sales of canned beers are growing while bottles are on the decline.
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First off: Yes, Patagonia is a clothing company. And yes, it is partnering (via Patagonia Provisions, its food & beverage division) with Deschutes Brewery to produce two organic beers — Kernza Lager and Non-Alcoholic Kernza Golden Brew, the latter being the first certified organic non-alcoholic craft beer brewed in the U.S. And in another first,…
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Stratford, Connecticut’s Two Roads Brewing Co. takes one of its flagship brews into the NA universe with the launch of Road 2 Ruin Zero, a non-alcoholic IPA. As NA beers go, this one really nails the body. It’s bold and aggressive, almost chewy with a rounded texture that evokes lots of malt. What I didn’t…
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Italy’s Peroni is the latest brewer to enter the non-alcoholic fray, and the approach here is decidedly unsurprising: Peroni 0.0% is meant to recreate classic Peroni Nastro Azzurro, just without the alcohol. Now Peroni is exactly no one’s idea of a flavor-forward beer, so it’s worth asking yourself if a zero-alc version of Peroni even…
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We’re in the thick of Oktoberfest season, which means everybody but everybody is dropping special releases for the month. Houston-based Karbach’s Oktoberfest expression is on point for the style, if a little mild, offering a rounded Marzen with notes of coriander and lots of malt that gives the beer an appropriately bready, chewy texture. Lightly hopped…
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Ready for oompah season? California’s Firestone Walker is back with its “Oaktoberfest” annual seasonal — now 18 years old — plus four editions of a new beer called Cali Squeeze. Cali Squeeze is a new line of easy-drinking “tropical wheat ales,” each made with real fruit in the recipe. While these are designed more for summer…
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Oregon’s 10 Barrel Brewing doesn’t just make beer. It also cranks out quite a few canned cocktails — big ones, in 12 oz. cans, made with real booze. Some of them pack quite a wallop. Today we look at a trio of them, along with a trio of new brews. Let’s get busy! 10 Barrel Brewing…
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Never before has a brewery hung so much of its identity on the concept of “dust.” Space Dust, Dank Dust, now Juice Dust, all beers from Elysian, and all riffs on the IPA theme. Juice Dust falls in the Imperial Juicy IPA category, of course, and the orange-themed cartoonery on the label should cue you…
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New brews from our buddies at Stone Brewing, both in the IPAverse… Stone Delicious Hazy IPA – The newest addition to the Stone Delicious family is this spot-on hazy, a creamy and fruit-filled expression of tangerines, mangos, apricots, and lemon — all bright as could be but set against a backdrop of creamy, vanilla-scented malt.…
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So you want an IPA but you don’t want a big, boozy experience? Firestone Walker’s 5% abv Extra Pale Ale (XPA) offers a potential (albeit seasonal) solution inspired by our friends down under. To wit: “XPA is the number one craft beer style in Australia and it’s something we’re excited to champion it here in…
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Karbach’s Hopadillo is mainstay beer offering in Texas (reportedly the best-selling IPA in the state for 11 years), and now you can punch up that IPA character even further with the addition of Hopadillo Juicy. Hopadillo Juicy is a “Texas India Pale Ale made with two row pale malt, flaked wheat, light crystal, and flaked…
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