Bars

From the smallest Belgian beer café to the largest multi-tap beer extravaganza, these are your 20 favorite places to gather for beer in 2025.

Pubs, bars, and cafés are crucial to the experience and community of craft beer and a vital link between maker and consumer. Here are your 20 favorites in 2024.

Pubs, bars, and cafés are crucial to the experience and communityof craft beer and a vital link between maker and consumer. Here are your 20 favorites in 2023.

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great watering holes: Locals rule at this warm, comfortable, and family-friendly bar in Deer Lodge, Montana.

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: Chicago’s Beer Temple serves a smartly chosen mix of craft classics and contemporary standouts, all with extra care.

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: This long-running nerve center of British Columbian craft remains a house of hospitality dedicated to lesser-known breweries.

Pubs, bars, and cafés are crucial to the experience and community of craft beer and a vital link between maker and consumer. Here were your 20 favorites in 2022.

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: Gist offers finely honed ales, music, and atmosphere just off the Brussels tourist path.

From our Love Handles files on beer bars we love: This unfussy dive helped San Diego develop a palate for craft, and it remains one of the city’s must-visits.

It’s been a tough year for drinking in beer bars, but here are your chosen favorites. We'll see you there at the bar next year.

In each issue, our Love Handles department visits three great beer bars. This tour from Issue 36 takes us from Rhode Island to Ukraine via Manhattan.

In each issue our Love Handles department visits three great beer bars. Here's where we went for our October/November 2019 issue.

Where to drink? We asked, and you told us. Here are our readers' top destinations for enjoying great beer.

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).

In each issue our Love Handles department visits three great beer bars. Here where we went for our June/July issue.

In this edition of Lovehandles we explore The Dram Shop, JK O’Donnell’s, and Hand + Foot

In this edition of Lovehandles we explore The Iowa Taproom, Brewport Taphouse, and The Raleigh Times

In this edition of Lovehandles we explore Brawley’s Beverage, Hoot Owl, and Finn's Manor

Here are three beer bars that our correspondents examined in Issue 27 of Craft Beer and Brewing Magazine. Find the best pints in Minneapolis, Longmont, and Aberdeen with these Love Handles.

Here’s a numerical round up of some of the craft-beer industry’s biggest headlines in September.