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Belgian Dark Strong Ale & Tostadas

Belgian Dark Strong Ale & Tostadas

On occasion I find myself leafing through a book with some beginning pairing guidelines in the hopes that it will spark a great idea. Sometimes it works. Other times, not so much. A few days ago however, it did, and in a BIG way. I had a Belgian Dark Strong Ale ...

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A Stone Skips Across the Pond: Stone Brewing Plans To Open European Location

A Stone Skips Across the Pond: Stone Brewing Plans To Open European Location

Extra! Extra! Read all about! News from the beer world! Stone Brewery plans to completely take over the European market! Well they're not exactly planning on it, but they just might do it. Stone Brewery from Escondido, California, whom I visited in May (Look for an Upcoming Video), does not simply intend to expand ...

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Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part III & IV

Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part III & IV

Tom wanted to shoot a video of himself tasting and discussing the following hand-picked list of "kick-ass" summer beers, but our editors thought it would be just "too hot for TV" (or webTV, in this case). We did however let him write about it. This is Parts III and IV of ...

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A Beginner's Guide to Finding the Best Craft Beer Drink Deals

A Beginner's Guide to Finding the Best Craft Beer Drink Deals

People hesitate to discover the best about craft beer due to one simple fact: to drink quality, you have to pay the price. As we all know, the price can get pretty steep. As a new convert to all that's awesome about beer, I decided to share how I came ...

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Beer: The After Dinner Drink

Beer: The After Dinner Drink

Who says you can't drink beer with your ice cream? Joshua Lepley, photographer and creator of Barley Dine, shatters the common misconception that beer is only meant to be consumed during the main course. Today he shares with us several of his favorite dessert pairings guaranteed to make you reconsider ...

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Beer Fest Season Begins: Three Fests You Won't Want To Miss

Beer Fest Season Begins: Three Fests You Won't Want To Miss

Labor Day weekend is around the corner. Time to drink the last of your saisons, weisse beers and pilsners. Have one last BBQ, picnic or beach weekend and then retire your cooler until next year. No need to shed tears in your pale ale though, summer may be over but ...

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The Netflix of Beers? BeerChooser Might Be It

The Netflix of Beers? BeerChooser Might Be It

It's the dog-days of summer, a time when local beer stores fill up with buyers headed to weekend barbeques and patio hangouts. A week ago, I found myself in a store that could have doubled for a museum of fine art, the way the people around me were pensively staring ...

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A Jersey Take On Williamsburg's Bar Scene

A Jersey Take On Williamsburg's Bar Scene

Recently a friend and I made a trip across the Hudson, through Manhattan, to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  For over a decade, Williamsburg has been a hot bed for hipsters, artist, musicians, professionals, and people just looking to have a good old time.  It's also becoming well known for it's eateries and ...

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A Stone Skips Across the Pond: Stone Brewing Plans To Open European Location

by Tom MacGowan
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Extra! Extra! Read all about! News from the beer world! Stone Brewery plans to completely take over the European market! Well they’re not exactly planning on it, but they just might do it. Stone Brewery from Escondido, California, whom I visited in May (Look for an Upcoming Video), does not simply intend to expand by exporting their beers [...]

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The Netflix of Beers? BeerChooser Might Be It

by Lydia Broussard
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It’s the dog-days of summer, a time when local beer stores fill up with buyers headed to weekend barbeques and patio hangouts. A week ago, I found myself in a store that could have doubled for a museum of fine art, the way the people around me were pensively staring at the cooler, trying to [...]

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Philly Beer Week Video!

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Our very own Eugene Catanzaro spent a little time at Philly Beer Week last month and had a chance to hang with the guys of Oskar Blues, Voodoo Brewing, Dark Horse Brewing, Doc’s Draft Cider & River Horse. Check it out!

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3rd Annual Belgian Beerfest

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Eugene Catanzaro heads to Center City, Philadelphia for the 3rd Annual Belgian Beerfest at World Café Live to interview the people who bring us these first-class imports.

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Brew Tour: Inside River Horse Brewery (New Jersey)

by Eugene Catanzaro
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Part One Eugene Catanzaro takes us inside of the River Horse Brewery in Lambertville, NJ to sit down for a Beer Session with owner, Chris Walsh and brewers, Chris Rakow and Chris McGrath. Yeah that’s a lot of Chrises, we know. Click Here to Watch! Part Two

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Beer and Loathing in Atlantic City (Celebration of the Suds…Part Deuce)

by Tom MacGowan
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Were you part of the thousands of beer nuts who swarmed Atlantic City, March 20th and 21st?  If you were you may have run into The Beer Sessions crew.  And if you weren’t there, we got your back.  Hey, what are we here for? Eugene charging from the west, myself from the north, we had our [...]

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A Jersey Take On Williamsburg’s Bar Scene

by Tom MacGowan
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Recently a friend and I made a trip across the Hudson, through Manhattan, to Williamsburg, Brooklyn.  For over a decade, Williamsburg has been a hot bed for hipsters, artist, musicians, professionals, and people just looking to have a good old time.  It’s also becoming well known for it’s eateries and eclectic beer bars. Being from [...]

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On the Road: A Dogfish Head Detour

by Jesse York
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Sam Calagione of Dogfish Head is such a presence in the craft beer community that even if you’ve never met him, you probably feel like you know him. At least that’s the way I felt after reading his books, numerous magazine bios on him and seeing him featured in web videos, documentaries and TV shows. [...]

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Last Beer Days of Summer: Two "Must See" Bars

by Celena Cipriaso
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So, folks, it’s that sad time of year, when the hot days of summer are winding down.  This is the time to get out, enjoy the blue sky, and toast the heat wave away with a beer. If you’re a New Yorker or coming for a visit, here are a couple of bars to enjoy [...]

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Beer and Fine Dining @ Blue Hill at Stone Barns

by Jesse York
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I love that so many restaurants in NYC have cultivated great craft beer lists and that so many great craft beer bars have developed innovative food menus. Once upon a time, beer loving gourmands had to enjoy great beer at a craft beer bar with a plate of nachos and had to make do with [...]

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Belgian Dark Strong Ale & Tostadas

by Joshua Lepley
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On occasion I find myself leafing through a book with some beginning pairing guidelines in the hopes that it will spark a great idea. Sometimes it works. Other times, not so much. A few days ago however, it did, and in a BIG way. I had a Belgian Dark Strong Ale aging away in the [...]

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Tom’s "Too Hot For TV" Ultimate Summer Beer List: Part III & IV

by Tom MacGowan
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Tom wanted to shoot a video of himself tasting and discussing the following hand-picked list of “kick-ass” summer beers, but our editors thought it would be just “too hot for TV” (or webTV, in this case). We did however let him write about it. This is Parts III and IV of a four part series. [...]

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Beer: The After Dinner Drink

by Joshua Lepley
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Who says you can’t drink beer with your ice cream? Joshua Lepley, photographer and creator of Barley Dine, shatters the common misconception that beer is only meant to be consumed during the main course. Today he shares with us several of his favorite dessert pairings guaranteed to make you reconsider that cup of coffee. Still [...]

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The Quest for the Berliner Weisse

by Celena Cipriaso
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I first discovered the Berliner Weisse in my search for good craft light beer options. The German sour wheat beer with a low ABV seemed like a perfect fit for my list. Ultimately, I decided not to include the beer type on the list because of its sparse pickings– at the time, I only found [...]

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Beer Fest Season Begins: Three Fests You Won’t Want To Miss

by Jesse York
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Labor Day weekend is around the corner. Time to drink the last of your saisons, weisse beers and pilsners. Have one last BBQ, picnic or beach weekend and then retire your cooler until next year. No need to shed tears in your pale ale though, summer may be over but the best season of the [...]

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Beer Wars: A Craft Beer Drinker’s Divine Mission

by Celena Cipriaso
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The documentary Beer Wars has been out for about a year, but this was my first chance to view the film at the closing night of The New York Food Film Festival. What an event for a first viewing. Labeled “Brooklyn’s Burger n’ Beer Garden”, the closing ceremony of the festival was an event for [...]

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21st Amendment Brewery Back in Black IPA

by Lydia Broussard
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Even though they have been around for a good twenty years, black IPAs are catching on like a remarkable kind of wildfire and creating a different kind of controversy than the extreme beer debate. Several west-coast breweries have experimented with the genre, adding roasted malts to give traditional American Pales a more rounded flavor. While [...]

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Saison du Buff: Sam Calagione, Bill Covaleski, & Greg Koch Declare War on Bad Beer

by Tom MacGowan
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Recently, while visiting the Stone Brewing Company in Escondido, San Diego, I was fortunate enough to score a coveted tasting of the Stone, Dogfish Head, and Victory collaboration brew – Saison du BUFF. Once upon a time in 2003, three great brewers from opposite ends of the country came together for a press conference to announce to [...]

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A Beer Education Massachusetts Style

by Celena Cipriaso
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Months ago, I was more of a wine drinker, unaware of the wonderful possibilities and complexities of the craft beer world. Since my conversion, my husband and my sister-in-law were determined to teach me what great beer was all about. This past weekend was spent exploring new beers in my sister-in-law’s neck of the woods [...]

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One Man, One Hundred Beers

by Jesse York
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I used to love leaving my college in New York City to visit my younger sister and catch a glimpse of big campus college life at the Univeristy of Florida in Gainesville. I always had a blast amidst the tailgating, football games, parties and bar hopping. The only thing lacking was the craft beer that [...]

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A Beginner’s Guide to Finding the Best Craft Beer Drink Deals

by Celena Cipriaso
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People hesitate to discover the best about craft beer due to one simple fact: to drink quality, you have to pay the price. As we all know, the price can get pretty steep. As a new convert to all that’s awesome about beer, I decided to share how I came to find the best craft [...]

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Spice is Not The Enemy: Five Tips for Pairing Beers with Southern Barbecue Alternatives

by Lydia Broussard
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Summer is upon us northern hemisphere dwellers, and that means one thing: cookouts. If you’re in the north, you may be preparing for another season of barbecuing: “man cook with fire, drink brews.” However, a serious amount of cookout culture comes from the American South. Recipes yanked from years of family reunions and southern tourist [...]

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Hey, Craft Brewers! We Want Pitcher Deals!

by Andrew Henderson
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A couple of weeks back, I met up with some friends at a bar in Manhattan to watch the World Cup final. The plan was for us all to meet at craft beer bar I had picked out in Greenwich Village, but we arrived to find the windows papered and a sign that read, “currently [...]

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Do Great Tasting Pilsners Actually Exist?

by Andrew Henderson
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“Give me Pilsners, or give me Death!” – Anonymous Have you ever heard that quote? Me neither. You know why? No one’s ever said it. Since we started The Beer Sessions this year, I’ve branched out in my beer tasting, trying all different styles from all different breweries. Throughout this time, one style has continued [...]

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Four Reasons Why You Should Become A Home Brewer

by Jesse York
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Like other beer fanatics, I spend a good deal of time chasing down every new release that breweries in my neck of the woods put out. Unlike many of my suds obsessed friends, I also spend a good deal of time brewing my own beer. Their argument for not going the DIY route is always [...]

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A Young Drinker’s Dilemma: Spaghetti Westerns + Good Beer + McLovin?

by Lydia Broussard
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A craft beer bar hosting ‘four-dollar draught week’ should be approached with equal doses of caution and glee. In my old neighborhood, the occurrence of such a week at the bar down the street was timed for the flood of college students back into the area. The owner wanted to let them get a taste [...]

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