Kate Bernot

With dogged attention to detail, Halfway Crooks in Atlanta are surviving and thriving by playing the long game: “You have a beer at night and then wake up the next morning and go full force again.”

• Breakout Brewery
• Halfway Crooks

Early hours, hearty food, and mountain views set this coffee/beer bar apart for students, locals, and visitors to Missoula.

• Love Handles
• Cambie Taphouse
• Montana

In Weymouth, Massachusetts, Vitamin Sea Brewing are tinkering with and launching trendy styles to flavorful new heights—and finding plenty of fans up for the ride.

• Vitamin Sea
• Fruit Beer
• Fruited Sour

At Weathered Souls Brewing, Marcus Baskerville is on a mission to earn San Antonio beer a national reputation—and to help change the industry’s relationship with Black brewers and drinkers.

• Weathered Souls
• Breakout Brewer
• San Antonio

In Portland, Maine, the brewers at Lone Pine find that tiny tweaks to their IPAs yield big-time payoffs.

• Breakout Brewer
• Lone Pine
• IPA

The accomplished writer, certified beer judge, and our own contributing editor shares her beery highlights from a highly unusual year.

• Critic's List
• 2020
• Best in Beer

From the Love Handles department of our April-May 2020 issue, here are three of our favorite beery destinations, from Florida to Washington state via Middle Franconia.

• Love Handles
• Orlando
• Nuremberg

From outside the box to the top of the beer ratings, Arizona’s Superstition Meadery has gained a devoted following for its characterful, off-the-wall concoctions.

• Superstition Meadery
• Breakout Brewer
• Mead

As a serial entrant in major beer competitions, Brink Brewing in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been winning national medals with classic styles, turning them into local success.

• Breakout Brewer
• Brink Brewing
• Ohio

Meticulous attention to raw materials and the embrace of under-loved hop varieties have helped the beers of New Anthem Beer Project stand out in a thickening crowd.

• Breakout Brewer
• North Carolina
• IPA

The reporter, certified beer judge, and former beer editor at DRAFT Magazine shares her highlights from the year spent tasting and covering the wide world of craft beer.

• Critic's List
• Best in Beer
• 2019

In every issue our Love Handles department features three great beer bars. For Issue 34 we went to the Pine Box (Seattle), Stein Haus (Great Falls), and Small Bar (San Diego).

• Love Handles
• Beer Bars
• Beer Travel