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25 Breweries to Watch in 2013

From scrappy up-and-comers to old dogs learning new tricks, these are the names to keep on your craft-beer radar this year.…

Magic Hat goes Day of the Dead for this amber ale.

The 10 Best Beer Labels of the Week: May 18, 2013

We week we've been making cocktails with PDT's Jeff Bell, but you can bet we'll find ourselves face to face with a few brews this weekend. Here's hoping they're as handsome as this crop of…

Click through the gallery to follow the evolution of a beer nerd.

The 25 Stages of Being a Beer Nerd, in GIFs

How did you make the transition from Natty Ice-pounding college kid to card-carrying hop head? The more fellow beer lovers I talk to, the more I realize our stories are kind of the same—we…

Turn your refrigerator into a goddamn art gallery with these new mini kegs from Bell's.

The 10 Best Beer Labels of the Week: May 4, 2013

It's Derby Day followed by Cinco de Mayo, so for some of you, it'll be a weekend of mint juleps and margaritas. But let us not forget the glory of beer, and all of the awesome art it…

Illustrator Keith Shore kills it yet again for Mikkeller. Awesome colors.

The 10 Best Beer Labels of the Week: April 26, 2013

Today is Dark Lord Day, when beer nerds descend on Three Floyds for the chance to buy the brewery's extremely limited imperial stout. Honestly, I'm happier at home sipping great beers at home …

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Three Attempts at Beer-Nerd Humor

Not sure if saying this will get us in hot water or not, but it seems to be a decent generalization: While the craft-beer community is (generally) eager, friendly, gracious, and fun-loving, humor …

Next month, Elysian is launching this awesome collaboration series with Seattle artist Jim Woodring. Elysian comes up with a beer with weird ingredients, Woodring creates sketches based on those ingredients, then the brewers tweak the final recipe based on the imagery.

The Best Beer Labels of the Week: April 20, 2013

What a week. As Mia Farrow tweeted (!?), "This may be inappropriate but a beer is helpful." You're damn right, Mia. This weekend, take some time to sit down with a fine ale—maybe something…

It may only be April, but I'm ready for beach brews.

The 10 Best Beer Labels of the Week: April 13, 2013

You've got your work cut out for you this weekend. You need to track down the obscure saisons that Churchkey beer pro Engert let is us in on. You need to perfect your beer-sabering technique. …