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The beer culture in Chicago is reflective of the city itself: compelling, unabashed, and progressive.

Andrea and Christian Stanley malt between 5 and 6 tons of grain per week, between their 4-ton malting system and the floor malting operation.

If you’ve ever taken a whiff of a pale lager and gotten a noseful of corn, then you’re already familiar with this week’s off-flavor.

With just a couple of months until the winter holidays, it’s time to start thinking about those winter brews.

Browsing through the craft beer aisles at your favorite store, you don’t always have time to read every label or search for the rating of the best beer to take home.

Beer tourism used to be what we beer geeks just called vacation, but in the past decade “beercation” has become a lucrative trend with a catchy name.

When Witsoe opened Wit’s End Brewing Co. (named as a play on his last name) in 2011, he started brewing one barrel at a time and quickly made a name for himself as one of Denver’s best brewers.

Just an hour outside of Portland, Oregon, where the Columbia River and the Hood River meet, is the small, but brewery-dense town of Hood River.

Commonly described as having an artificial butter flavor.

Go far enough down the road of homebrew obsession, and sooner or later you’ll find yourself needing to ship some beer.

Breckenridge Brewery, which started as a small pub in Breckenridge, Colorado, in 1990, has expanded to Denver and created a 35-state distribution footprint.

Every month or so, a brewery seems to run a marketing campaign or release a beer that re-ignites the debate on the existence of sexism in craft brewing.

There’s no denying the pleasure of the cascading bubbles in a properly poured stout on a nitro tap, but getting the same experience in a bottled beer is something only a handful of craft brewers have attempted.

The lineup of 2014 Great American Beer Festival breakfasts and brunches was proof alone that it is undoubtedly the year of the beer brunch.

No, we’re not discussing low carbohydrate ale, but rather low carbonation ale.

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

While high alcohol is integral to strong craft beer styles such as barleywine and imperial stout, not all alcohols are created equally.

There are conflicting sides to any brewer.

Here are the three beer bars that we explored in the “Love Handles” column in Issue 3 (Fall 2014).

We’ve trolled the local event listings and polled countless brewers to create this non-exhaustive list of what not to miss during GABF.