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January 22, 2024

Brewing With Chocolate: Elevating Beers Through a Delicate Process

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written about using bold flavors to make great beer, like with kettle or smoothie sours or pastry stouts. While those flavors in beers are ...
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January 19, 2024

Scotch Ale Packs a Malty Punch and a Throwback Beer Experience

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Craft beer consumers still go gung-ho over IPAs. According to Untappd’s 2023 Year in Beer review, .hop-forward beers had more than twenty-three million check-ins above ...
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January 12, 2024

Black IPA: An Underrated Style Booming with Flavor

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By: Giovanni Albanese
It goes without saying (but we’ll say it anyway) that IPAs are the top craft beer style among consumers. The proof is in the data. ...
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December 5, 2023

Oatmeal Stout: How the Experts Integrate Oats for a Silky, Velvety Brew

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve just covered the tip of the iceberg with stout styles, previously chatting with experts about high-octane imperial stouts, making pastry stouts taste just like ...
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November 22, 2023

Milk Stout: How Lactose Lends a Silky-Smooth Mouthfeel

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Undoubtedly, stouts pick up traction from consumers during the colder months. But that doesn’t make life for brewers boring, with so many subsets of the ...
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November 8, 2023

Pastry Stout: How to Make a Beer That Tastes Like Dessert

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written extensively about how to make darker styles like porters, Märzens, and high-octane imperial stouts. While imperial stouts are one of the most popular ...
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November 3, 2023

Imperial Stout: Experts Explain Wide Ranges to Create a Great One

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By: Giovanni Albanese
When it comes to imperial stouts in craft beer, it’s go big or go home. According to the previous two years of Untappd check-in data, ...
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September 20, 2023

Three Major Keys to Bringing Old-World Classic Märzen to U.S. Craft Audiences

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered some classic European styles of beer in this space. Whether it’s Czech pilsner, Belgian tripel, helles lager, or farmhouse ales, craft brewers across ...
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September 11, 2023

Why Porters Should be on Everyone’s Tap List Right Now

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all dark beers are sweet, barrel-aged, big-bodied stouts. For instance, the porter—a garnet- to rust-colored beer that’s light, delicious, and worth considering adding to ...
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September 6, 2023

Best Ingredients to Make Mexican-Style Lagers. Hint: It’s Not Lime

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By: Giovanni Albanese
For a long time, brewers have been saying that this is the “Year of the Lager.” Finally, it seems that consumers are catching up. Untappd ...
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