I was recently in London, exploring the beer scene along with our UK correspondent, Sophie Atherton. On my first night in town, I ended up at the Holborn Whippet, a packed craft beer pub in the Bloomsbury section of town. It was overflowing with locals and expats enjoying serious London craft beer, inside and outside its door. And that's where I met Auguri Kutveltukas, a striking Lithuanian beauty with bright orange "rockstar" hair, who was ably managing the beer-swilling masses that night.

Welcome to 2016...It's a brand new year but clearly nothing is slowing down anytime soon. But no worries, Rumor Mill is always on the case, keeping you plugged in to all the craft beer news that matters. Plus we've an all-important update on what we've been drinking lately and you absolutely don't want to miss that.

I recently spent three fantastic days and nights exploring London's beer scene along with our UK correspondent, Sophie Atherton. She'd set up a full plate of visits for us that she hoped would give me an overview of everything going on, both new and old. And as exciting as breweries like Beavertown and The Kernel are, they both owe no small debt to Fuller's - London's largest and oldest brewery. 

Growlers Beer Bistro has become the standard for craft beer centered bars and restaurants in Westchester County. It boasts an impressive list of credentials including several "Best of Westchester" awards, a "Best Beer Focused Restaurant" mention and has recently garnered a reputation for serving delicious craft cocktails as well.

When we started ACB back in 2012, our goal was to cover the American craft beer scene like it never had been done before and have some fun doing it. Our early growth was in many of the cities you'd expect. West Coast cities like San Diego, LA, San Francisco, Portland, and Seattle found us early, as did Denver in the West and Chicago in the Midwest. Our home office is in Washington, DC, so we've friends who turn to us regularly in the mid-Atlantic. And Boston, NYC, and Atlanta always show up as some of our Top 5 cities that check in with us daily.

But the last thing we expected was to attract an international audience - and we couldn't believe it when that started happening...

Today has been designated IPA Day and If ever a beer style deserved its own special day, it's the India Pale Ale. And with so many great IPAs out there (and so many variations), even attempting to come up with a definitive list might be dismissed as sheer recklessness on our part. But that's never stopped us in the past.

So here are 10 big-time IPAs that you need to try.

If you're smart, you no longer go there - but I'd wager that there's no one reading this who's never felt the wrath of a real hangover. A real hangover is not just feeling tired or feeling a little off. A real hangover is brutal - a real hangover sucks. But hangovers can be avoided or at least lessened and we've some suggestions.

Beer has been around for as long as human civilization, but not all historical figures were avid drinkers of this ancient beverage. ACB takes a look at three people in history that may have had a better life if they were regular consumers of craft beer.

Because of what we do here at American Craft Beer - and because of people like you who read us daily - we get shipped all kinds of random promotional items to review. And one of the things that we receive constantly is hangover cure products. We're not sure what that says about us, or about you - but we're thinking it's probably not the best.

So in yet another effort to help you manage your troubled lives... Welcome to ACB's Guide to New Hangover Cure Products!

In writing our regular series on seasonal beers, we're required to don a "national craft beer" hat, which as writers of humble earnings can be a difficult task. So we try our best to find info on those beers we'd most like to try and make the best educated choices we can (not quite bullshitting our way through things...). But not this collection of craft gold; It's full of not to be missed Northwest crafted beers based on first-hand tastings.