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A bartender pouring beer from a tap. Beer sales are down year to year.

Why Is the Domestic Beer Market Failing?

By one major metric, the beer market has declined seven months in a row

Crowd of people and tents in front of Capitol Hill for the beer festival Snallygaster

The Weekend DC Beer Nerds Wait for All Year Has Arrived

Snallygaster returns to Pennsylvania Ave. Not a beer person? We’ve got you covered, too.

Light lager

Craft Breweries Are Embracing the World of Light Lagers
cans of Anchor Steam beer

Anchor Brewing’s Closure Is a Hit to Craft Beer’s History
Trappist Westvleteren

Could Drinkers Benefit From a Refresher Course in Trappist Beer?
Baby's first beer garden

You Can Thank Craft Brewing for the Rise of Kids in Bars

Breweries are becoming PG destinations for family-friendly outings

The Four-Hour Rule: Kalamazoo

Classic cars, food, craft beer. In that order.

Disneyland Just Opened Its First Craft Brewery

A kid-friendly environment with adult-friendly amusements

The 10 Beer Trends That Will Dominate 2019

Will the reign of the IPA finally come to an end?

The 10 Best Airbnbs for Craft Beer Lovers

Leave the car keys in your room. You won't be needing them.

Meet the Co. Turning Old Motels Into Retreats for Adrenaline Junkies

You'll find their newest convert in craft brew haven Bend, OR

This Company Will Craft a Beer Designed Entirely by You

Personalized brews and bottles, via Unlimited Brewing

4-Hour Rule: Lenox, MA

The new 33 Main isn’t your grandpappy’s B & B

A Tongue-in-Cheek Campaign to ‘Buy’ Anheuser-Busch Has Already Raised $2.5M

Only $212.9975 billion to go

World’s Wackiest Brewer to Release Lynch-Approved ‘Twin Peaks’ Beers

That is a damn fine can of beer.

Here Are All the Beers You Can (and Should!) Drink Warm

It's not as blasphemous as you think

There’s Finally a Certification Process for Breweries That Claim to Make ‘Craft Beer’

The beer industry has needed this for far, far too long

Is Santa Rosa, California Really America’s Craft-Beer Capital?

Don't tell Chicago.

Table Stakes: March

The best Chicago bar and restaurant openings of the past month

Know Your Corner Bar, Vol. I: Gallery Cabaret

The stories and characters behind one of Chicago's best dives

A Compendium of the Best Dine-In Breweries in Chicago

Come for the drinks, stay for the eats

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News, advice and insights for the most interesting person in the room.

A bottle of Arcane Alpha and two glasses of whiskey on a table

How Arcane Is Turning Craft Beer Into Great Whiskey in Just Days

The Bushwick brewery utilizes vacuum distillation to make unique IPA- and stout-based spirits

Craft beers are on tap all over America's top beer state.

What's the Best State for Beer Lovers?

Hint: it's been spooning New Hampshire for decades

Dokkaebier

Mythical Korean Creatures Give This Bay Area Craft Beer Brand Its Adventurous Spirit

“They come out at night, then they’II drink and hang out with people,” says Dokkaebier founder Young Won Lee

Richard Bloomfield, Zachary Day and Gregory Williams of Funkytown Brewery pictured left to right

How This Black-Owned Craft Brewery Found Success at Warp Speed

The co-founders of Chicago’s Funkytown detail how they went from taste tests at barbecues to being stocked in 200 shops around the city

Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival

The 15 Best Beers We Tried at the 2022 Firestone Walker Invitational Beer Festival

These are the stand-outs from the most beloved craft beer festival in America

Craft Beer Cans

Here’s Exactly How to Become the Next Big Craft Beer Baron

With advice and strategies from the guys behind Chicago’s Pilot Project Brewing

A group of friends toast with beer glasses at a bar

Which State Drinks the Most Beer?

Beer industry data from 2020 found Americans drank almost 26 gallons of beer per adult age 21 or over on average

A can of Hoplark 0.0 Citra sitting on a log in a forest. The beverage is non-alcoholic, zero-calorie and gluten/sugar-free.

Can a Beer That Has No Alcohol, Calories, Sugar, Malt or Gluten Actually Taste Good?

Hoplark 0.0 puts the hops front and center in their new vice-free brew

Stone Brewing stand

Jury Awards Stone Brewing $56 Million in Molson Coors Suit

Keystone Light branding did not work as expected

Tap handle

Czech-Style Beer Taps Gain Ground in the U.S.

Does your local bar have a side-pull beer tap yet?

A booming microbrewery industry has led to a shortage of the humble beer can. That's left Maine brewers scrambling to plan for the busy summer season. Beer cans wait for the conveyor belt during a canning run at Portland's Rising Tide Brewery on Monday afternoon (photo from 2014; a can shortage has come up again now in 2022)

Why Your Craft Beer Is About to Get More Expensive

A combination of events is leading to tough decisions for independent brewers who rely on one major can manufacturer

Alternate Takes Vol 3 from Dogfish Head, an excellent whiskey release from a company best known for its beer

Why Breweries Are Now Making America’s Most Interesting Whiskeys

How Dogfish Head, New Holland and Town Branch merge their brewing and distilling passions into something unique

Making lambics

Exploring the Long History — and Unlikely Comeback — of Lambics

A distinctive beer comes into its own

Kane's Eggnog Beer

Inside the Strange and Surprisingly Tasty World of Eggnog Beer

At breweries around the country, an unexpectedly delicious combination is growing in popularity

Two mini kegs from Bell's Brewery, one of the first craft breweries to embrace the five-liter beer dispenser

Why Craft Breweries Are Finally Embracing Mini Kegs

They're suddenly cool and collectible in our COVID era, but some obstacles remain for making these five-liter beer dispensers the new norm

An agave field located just outside the town of Tequila in Mexico. Tequila may overtake vodka in popularity this year, according to a report by Drizly.

Tequila and a Craft Beer Comeback Are the Big Drinking Trends for 2022

Drizly's annual report also suggests a bright future ahead for CBD/cannabis drinks