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Confessions of a Dark Beer Lover
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Confessions of a Dark Beer Lover

Ask the common beer drinker to picture the perfect pint or bottle, and they’ll likely envision something ice cold and golden amber on a hot afternoon. But, to many a discriminating craft beer drinker, there is a whole other category of brews… one that can inspire a kind of passion that you just can’t summon…

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Can You Tell Anything About a Craft Beer From Its Label?
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Can You Tell Anything About a Craft Beer From Its Label?

Generally speaking, looking at the label on a beer bottle isn’t the best way to tell if you’re going to like what’s inside. It’s one of those cases where conventional wisdom is dead on. There’s something to be said for paying attention to the old advice about “books and covers,” even if you never found…

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Could Drinking Craft Beer Change Your Life?
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Could Drinking Craft Beer Change Your Life?

For all the love and praise I heap upon craft beers and the brewers who produce them, I have to admit recreational drinking is probably not the healthiest habit I’ve developed in my time. Don’t get me wrong: sipping a nice cold beer can be great for the mind, and certainly won’t harm you the…

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9 Ways to Grow Your Love of Craft Beer
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9 Ways to Grow Your Love of Craft Beer

I’m a fan craft beers for a lot of reasons. There are different tastes and textures, of course, along with the different brewers and personalities that I have come to know like old friends. There is also an unexpected aspect that I think enhances my enjoyment, though: I feel like I’m constantly learning and being…

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Bring Some Spontaneity Back to Your Love of Craft Beer
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Bring Some Spontaneity Back to Your Love of Craft Beer

With Valentine’s Day upon us, it’s time to look at ways we can enhance the relationships we have with those oh-so-special loves of our lives… #craftbeers. In particular, we should recognize how easy it is to fall into a rut, where we find ourselves drinking the same brews again and again without much thought or…

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Debunking Myths About the German Beer Purity Laws
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Debunking Myths About the German Beer Purity Laws

When it comes to beer, “German” isn’t just a category of geographic origin, it’s an implicit stamp of quality and style, thanks in part to their Beer Purity laws. Maybe it’s because our Bavarian cousins take the art of brewing so seriously, and have been at it for so long, but most of us associate…

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Confessions of a Dark Beer Lover
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Confessions of a Dark Beer Lover

Ask the common beer drinker to picture the perfect pint or bottle, and they’ll likely envision something ice cold and golden amber on a hot afternoon. But, to many a discriminating craft beer drinker, there is a whole other category of brews… one that can inspire a kind of passion that you just can’t summon…

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What the Colour of Craft Beer Tells You
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What the Colour of Craft Beer Tells You

As the autumn leaves changed colour all around me this fall, I was reminded that the same golden, reddish, and darker shades of brown that can be found on trees at that time of year also tend to appear regularly in my refrigerator. In fact, consciously or not, many of us craft beer lovers tend to…

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Is Your Favourite Micro Brewery Really so Micro?
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Is Your Favourite Micro Brewery Really so Micro?

Craft beer lovers tend to be an opinionated bunch. Most of us have our favourite styles, flavours, and even glasses to drink from. So, with the brewing industry growing by leaps and bounds, and more public interest in craft brewing than ever, it’s maybe not that surprising that we don’t just have disagreements about which…

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Why Do We Love Craft Beer?
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Why Do We Love Craft Beer?

If you’ve made your way to this website, I’m assuming you love craft beer just as much as I do. I’m guessing that you delight in everything from the range of flavours and colours to the art that goes on the bottles, and everything that comes in between. But, I sometimes wonder: why do we actually…

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