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Beer Travel

You won’t have to leave the building to make a beer run at these brewery-adjacent lodgings.

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Boulder Strong Ale Fest, Founders KBS Week and more reasons to grab a beer this month.

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Beer Travel

An indiscriminate peek at its newest breweries offers some insight into the country’s current scene.

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Travel

For many breweries, beer is just one aspect of the business plan.

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Beer Travel

With the U.S. as their guide, Australian brewers have sparked their own craft beer blaze—and you can see it all from the suburbs of coastal Sydney.

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Beer Beertown Travel

If you’re heading to SXSW in March, bank on falling for hot new bands and cool new beers.

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Now that it’s been around for 500 years, let’s figure this beer purity thing out. And does it have any relevance today?

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…is that most aren’t very drinkable. But here are few that buck the trend.

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Products from compact homebrew devices to spent-grain snack bars compete for your cash.

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Beer Feature

Mix equal parts beer, art, and music, all with love from Canada.

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Break out your Audobon guide and start practicing your bird calls--flocks of bird-themed beers are landing on shelves and taplists nationwide. We found 10 worth tweeting about; flap on up to the link in our profile and check them out. (Photo by @ed_rudolph)
Turn on the dubstep, wait for the drop, then crack open @elysianbrewing's Dayglow IPA. Its hop character bounces with Clementine orange and lilac as well as pine bark and mint; it's a bit all over the place, but the toast-and-toffee bassline keeps the party lit.
It's official: Coconut IPA is trending (check the link in our profile for the proof). One of our favorites? @denverbeerco's Maui Express, whose aroma is 95 percent dank, resinous, sticky hops and five percent coconut oil. That duality echoes on the tongue, where bold sticky-icky hops cede to pineapple notes, which connect beautifully with the coconut at the Almond Joy finish.
The best thing about our trip to @halfacrebeer? The inspiration for some rad new office decor (who *doesn't* want to work next to a spiky grizzly bursting through the wall?). This glass of LA Looks--an IPA brewed with coconut butter that tastes like smooth, sweet coconut and pineapple purée with a grass and Juicyfruit gum finish--was a close second, though.
It may not be available from sea to shining sea (just the Chicagoland area and and a couple lucky bottle shops in Wisconsin), but Alemerica the Beautiful has amber waves of grain, at least. Hops, too--about two pounds per barrel of Mosaic, which give the pale ale a nose like grapefruit-mango-pineapple smoothies as well as flavors of blueberries and lawn clippings to go with a sweet un-glazed donut finish. God shed his grace on *thee*, @hopbutcher.
Look: a pack of Dire Wolves. @wofsridgebrewing's 10.4% ABV imperial stout got five different treatments this year. Our favorites? Canis Mexicanus, which draws from cocoa nibs, chili peppers, cinnamon and coffee for a flavor like smoky mole and a chipotle heat that crescendoes with each sip, and the port barrel-aged version, which delivers chocolate-covered luxardo cherries, soft marshmallows and a hint of steak char in a body that seems to melt in the mouth like spun sugar.
Take a whiff of this fruited sour from @troegsbeer and you might think you're about to bite into caramel-drizzled bourbon-pecan ice cream plopped atop warm peaches. The flavor's where things get freaky: Bracing underripe peach tartness and tannic fruit skin carry the palate into a long whiskey sour finish.
Most refreshing beer ever? Most refreshing beer ever. @creaturecomfortsbeer's Tritonia gose lulls the palate into a state of relaxation with salted cucumber slices then smacks it awake with a slap of lime juice, and the finish--like salted-rimmed, cucumber-garnished margaritas--is as invigorating as the real thing.

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