The growth of American craft beer is mirrored by a national explosion of great craft beer bars that serve up all this serious beer. In recent years, the Brewers Association's website CraftBeer.com has surveyed their audience for their favorite craft beer hangouts and they've just released this year's results....

So many beers, So little time...Saint Arnold Brewing has allowed one of their award-winning flagship beers to go to the dogs! We've that shocking story for you plus other cool new releases from Williamsburg Alewerks and 21st Amendment and Elysian Brewing that you'll want to grab soon.

We blame the industry for this... It used to be that when we wrapped up our Weekend Picks on Friday, we could coast through the weekend. There was little need to check in for updates -things were pretty much done. But clearly all that's changed.

So here's some of what's happened in the world of craft beer while you were off enjoying yourselves.

Hey we get it.  You're busy and you can't hang with us 24/7. But still, we don't want you to be missing all the good stuff. So as part of our ongoing commitment to bringing you the best craft beer and lifestyle coverage on the face of the planet - and to keep you plugged into our continuing recklessness - we've introduced a weekly compilation of our good, bad and ugly.

So welcome to another edition of our Friday Wrap-Up...

Hey it's Friday...Work's been brutal and you're ready to shut things down and turn it up. Well good, because we're all about it and we've got all kinds of awesome ideas for you. From the nation's coolest beer festivals to movies, music and cutting edge TV - we've got your back big-time.

So welcome to our awesome Weekend Picks...

So many beers, So little time! Oskar Blues is lowering the alcohol content on a new, nitro-canned version of one of their most popular beers. We've got that provocative story for you, plus some other cool new releases from Anchor Brewing and Goose Island that you'll want to get your sweaty little hands on.

Americans rejoice! Football season is upon us again and we here at ACB know what that means... MORE REASONS TO DRINK BEER ON SUNDAY AND MONDAY NIGHT... along with the occasional Thursday and Saturday. And since we are all going to be inundated with commercial after commercial telling us why their mass market swill is better than the other guy's mass market swill (hint: it's not), we present to you real American craft beer picks for real American football.

Hey it's Wednesday and that means it's Rumor Mill Time....Victory Brewing's World Domination Tour continues. We'll get to that and on to other things that are breaking right now in the world of craft beer. Plus we've an all-important update on what we've been drinking lately.

We don't sleep so you can....THIS WEEK'S RUMOR MILL IS ON!

The days when traditional British beer was considered warm and flat are over! No, really. Cask ale, where beer is alive and continues to ferment in the barrel it's served from, is apparently the epitome of craft beer in the USA. Just as craft-beer-loving Brits are glugging the kegged stuff - and when drinking cask often comment how certain native beers would be 'so much better in a keg' - American brewers and bars are honing their cask brewing and serving skills.

So many beers, So little time...SweetWater will soon be releasing a new IPA brewed using pure hop Lupulin. We've got that provocative story for you, plus some other cool new releases from Gigantic and River North Brewery that you'll need to get your sweaty little hands on.