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  • Metal icon and beer connoisseur Bruce Dickinson eyes a TROOPER ale.

    Real Ale In Rock & Metal

    Rock music has been associated with excess since its inception. Along with its companion activities, sex and drugs, the genre’s…

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  • Elgood's Brewery

    Sterling Tradition and Rebirth at Elgood’s Brewery (Issue 31)

    As big, bold and experimental has become the norm, the rare brewer which crafts with subtlety acts a beacon of…

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  • The Sierra Nevada Beer Camp packaging is one of the brewery's many smaller-scale innovations. (Photo Courtesy Sierra Nevada)

    Little Innovations in Brewing (Issue 31)

    While large-scale advancements in brewing and packaging usually get noticed by craft beer aficionados, smaller innovations like improved pop-top rings…

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  • Summer Beer Recommendations (Issue 31)

    It’s summertime! With this sun-dappled season sending spring showers skulking off into the upper reaches of the stratosphere, it’s time…

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  • For those following this ongoing battle between major brewers and independent craft brewers

    Wicked Weed’s Divisive Deed (Issue 31)

    I was always slightly amazed once marijuana for personal use became legal in Colorado that a certain beer from North…

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  • Top of the Taps: America’s Five Best Taprooms (Issue 31)

    What are the best brewery tasting rooms in the country? That’s a question that has been plaguing me because my…

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  • A Primer on Bottle-Conditioned Beer

    A Primer on Bottle-Conditioned Beer

    Beer is alive. Well, not all beer, and technically I suppose it isn’t the beer that’s alive but rather that…

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  • Hagen Dost and Bill Wesselink of Dovetail Brewery

    Dovetail Brewery Tour (Issue 30)

    Chicago’s Dovetail Brewery features a slogan that excellently encapsulates their ethos: We Brew Like Monks (Minus the Vows). As an…

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  • Jim Dykstra Chris Guest

    From the Editors, Issue 30

    If you’ve ever turned the dial to your local public broadcasting television channel, then you’re probably acquainted with the worldly…

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  • As of March 19

    Brewdoku: Craft by the Numbers (Issue 30)

    IRI Worldwide is a market research firm which tracks category-wide sales trends of beer sold in numerous retail outlets and…

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