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IPAs Aren't Just For Americans Anymore

US craft brewers have some new competition for IPAs

Mar 5, 2012 3:01 pm

If the American craft-beer movement flew a flag, it’d feature an image of a pint glass filled with frothy India pale ale. Though this bitter brew has its roots in Britain, the IPA has become a runaway American sensation.

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5 Craft Beers Worth Saving For New Year's

NYE Beer: Skip Bubbles. Pop Them Suds!

Dec 30, 2011 6:00 pm

Champagne is not my best friend. Due to the bubbly hooch’s high sugar content, and the ease with which it slides down my throat, the simple toast turns too easily into a guzzling fest that lead to the next morning’s hammering hangover.

Style Talk

A Sommelier Who's Not Afraid to Wear Pink

Josiah Baldivino pours wine & IPA with equal flair

Dec 7, 2011 11:01 am

With the word vino emphatically ending his last name, it seems almost too perfect that Josiah Baldivino would find his calling in the wine world. Only 29 years old, the young wine steward put in time working at New York’s Oak Room and Bar Boulud before returning to his native West Coast.

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Get to Know Your Hops: Nelson Sauvin

Five beers that flaunt a fruity, tropical profile

Sep 22, 2011 4:57 pm

Grab your passport — our latest hops lesson plan takes us to New Zealand, a land turned upside down. In that island nation adrift in the southwest Pacific Ocean, fall is spring, pests are few and far between, and, most crucially, there are no known hop diseases. This fortuitous quirk in the ecosystem — made possible by the country's remote location and the...

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What’s the Deal With Brunch and Beer?

Brunch isn't just for Bloody Marys anymore

Aug 26, 2011 9:01 am

Photo: Eleanor West

It was a sunny, hungover Saturday morning during Philly Beer Week, and all I craved was a fistful of aspirin and a bellyful of greasy eggs. “Let’s go to Johnny Brenda’s,” my equally alcohol-wrecked friend suggested.

We ambled off to the rock ’n’ roll–flavored restaurant known for its comfort grub, taking seats in a dark corner booth. A waitress waltzed over...

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What's The Deal With White IPA?

Two breweries join forces to unveil a White IPA

Aug 17, 2011 5:01 pm

Photo: Dan Thompson

Fashion codes dictate that you can wear white only from Memorial Day till Labor Day. But this summer, several brewers are demanding your beer be snow-hued too.

Last month, Oregon’s Deschutes Brewery and Kansas City, Missouri’s Boulevard Brewing released the fruits of their collaborative labor, a white IPA. I’m sure you’re scratching your...

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MateVeza’s Deliciously Hop-Free Beer

MateVeza Morpho: so good you won't notice it's pink

Aug 16, 2011 3:01 pm

A beer without hops is strange enough. Make it pink, and you’re asking for trouble. Unless you’re MateVeza. The company’s IPA and Black Lager are, first, excellent beers, and second, brewed with yerba mate, the South American herbal tea.

The newest release, Morpho...

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Can Beer Go Bad?

When beer ages, you get skunky suds or tasty gold

Aug 15, 2011 4:16 pm

Photo: erokCom on Flickr

In this era of food-safety mania, there is one perishable no one speaks of. Yes, beer can go bad. Fortunately, it usually gets drunk before it can turn. But if you’ve ever cracked open a bottle that somehow managed to languish at the back of your fridge for a few months too many, then you know the horror of skunky suds.

So, how does one avoid such a fate?...