American Craft Beer

This year’s edition, running October 9–11, 2025, promises to be one of the best yet. And while it’s easy to get caught up in the spectacle — the energy, the rare beer releases, the costumes — surviving (and enjoying) GABF takes a little strategy.

The seasons are changing, and Sierra Nevada Brewing is returning two special beers, a legendary Fresh Hop Ale along with a special variation that may be the brewer's rarest offering ever.

The Great American Beer Festival, or simply the GABF as it’s known as in the biz, has returned to the Colorado Convention Center in Denver, Colorado for the best weekend ever of craft beer celebrations and serious drinking.

Iron Hill Brewery, once a staple of the Mid-Atlantic craft beer scene, has filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy, marking a dramatic end for the regional brewpub chain that helped define upscale artisan brewing in the 1990s and 2000s. We’ve that, “Words to Drink By” and more…

Named after a mythical dragon-like beast, rumored to have once inhabited the mid-Atlantic’s backwoods around the turn of the century, Snallygaster returns to the nation’s capital this weekend.

The Non-Alcoholic Beer segment has never been hotter, nor the beers better. And here are some of our favorites….all of them Blonde Ales, this time around.

Dublin, 1868. The Guinness family patriarch is dead, and his four children — each with dark secrets to hide — hold the brewery's fate in their hands. And Netflix has poured fresh life into one of Ireland’s most enduring stories.

One of the nation’s most unique and important beer gatherings, The Festival Of Wood And Barrel-Aged Beer, will be returning to Chicago soon. We’ve that, “Words to Drink By” and more…

One of our favorite craft beer festivals returns to the nation’s capital this weekend. And if you’ve never attended Snallygaster you’ve been making a beastly mistake.

The seasons are changing, and American craft brewers are looking to fall with an ever-evolving roster of beverages (big and small) you’re gonna want to have around.