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Beer Styles Guide: 100+ Types of Beer Explained, Charted and Brewed

Every major beer style in one place: a filterable chart of 107 styles with official ABV, IBU and colour ranges, a beer to try and a homebrew recipe for each, plus where the BJCP and Brewers Association disagree.

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Denmark’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

41 independent Danish breweries ranked 30,102 Google reviews analysed 6 of 10 top-ranked breweries are outside the Copenhagen area 37% hold …

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Italy’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

88 independent Italian breweries ranked 43,241 Google reviews analysed 8 of 10 top-ranked breweries are outside Milan and Rome 40% hold …

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Czech Republic’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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The Netherlands’ Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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Belgium’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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Germany’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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Britain’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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Ireland’s Best Breweries: Ranked, Mapped, and By City

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The Most Awkward Beer-Tasting Moments on Camera, From Zuckerberg’s Guinness Face to a Sacked Newsreader

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Haunted Breweries: 14 Craft Breweries Built Inside Old Prisons, Asylums, Churches and Funeral Homes

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Is the Pumpkin Beer Craze Finally Dying?

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New Hampshire Is America’s Pumpkin Beer Capital, and the South Wants Nothing to Do With It

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Session Beers for Food Day: 8 Real Lower-ABV, Lower-Calorie Craft Picks That Still Pair With Dinner

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America’s Go-To Beer and Food Pairing, State by State (Just in Time for Food Day)

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Beer in the Kitchen: 5 Real Recipes That Use Beer to Cook, Not Just to Drink

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The Great American Beer Festival Just Moved Outdoors. Here Is Everything That Changed in 2026

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How Hops Shape Beer: Terpenes, Varieties and the Role They Play in Every Style

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A York Pub Study Just Showed How to Sell More Alcohol-Free Beer Without Losing Revenue

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UK Craft Beer Market Set to Nearly Double to $3.34 Billion by 2033, New Report Finds

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Marston’s Brewery in Burton-upon-Trent Could Close, Ending 200 Years of Cask Ale History

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Brew York Wins Outstanding Contribution Award as the York Brewery Marks 10 Years

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Beer Is for Everyone Returns to Glasgow on October 24, and It Is a Window Into 500 Years of the City’s Brewing History

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Your State’s Best-Rated Brewery: All 50 States, Ranked

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The Most-Googled Beer in Every State Isn’t the One That Actually Sells the Most

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Eight Nanobreweries (and One Cidery) That Actually Closed, and What We Learned Confirming Them

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Jeremy Clarkson’s Hawkstone Black Stout Lands in Waitrose, Right Next to Guinness

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Japan Raids Asahi, Kirin, Suntory and Sapporo Over Alleged Beer Price-Fixing Cartel

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Breweries Open the Most Hours a Week Aren’t the Busiest. They’re Barely Better Reviewed.

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94 Percent of US Breweries Are on Facebook. It Doesn’t Tell You Anything.

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We Built a Risk Score to Predict Which US Brewery Closes Next

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The Popularity Paradox: 5 More Things a 758-Brewery Data Study Reveals

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More Twitter Followers Won’t Save a Brewery, or Make the Beer Better: A Data Study of 758 US Breweries

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Why Craft Beer Got More Expensive to Make: The Real Cost Numbers Behind the Margin Squeeze

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18 Breweries Really Closed This Year, Including Two Bankruptcies, Here’s What They Had in Common

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Zlaty Bazant Review: Slovakia’s Best-Selling Lager, Tasted

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Radler, Peach Review: Altstadt Brewery’s Shandy / Radler at 3.2% ABV

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Haterade Review: 8th Wonder Brewery’s Sour, Traditional Gose at 3.3% ABV

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Kleines Bier Review: Live Oak Brewing Company’s Lager, German Light / Leichtbier at 3.2% ABV

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Temperance Review: Wild East Brewing Co.’s Dark Mild Ale at 3.5% ABV

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Beeps Review: Three Taverns Brewery’s American Lager at 3.5% ABV

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Pubber Review: Wren House Brewing Company’s Dark Mild Ale at 3.0% ABV

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McLighty’s Review: Zero Gravity Beer’s Lager, American Light at 3.2% ABV

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Beach Party Review: Lawson’s Finest Liquids’s IPA, Session at 3.4% ABV

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Grapefruit Radler Review: Revolution Brewing’s Shandy / Radler at 2.2% ABV

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Breweries You’d Never Expect Are Quietly Going Alcohol-Free

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Revealed: America’s Best-Kept Secret Beers

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8th Wonder NEIPA Review: Mountain Hops Brewhouse’s Casper, Wyoming Hazy IPA

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Pivate Review: Short Story Brewing’s Dry-Hopped Pilsner Tasted

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Lost Cabin BEER. Review: The Rapid City Brewery’s Craft Lager, ABV and IBU Tested

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Stardust IPA Review: One Barrel Brewing Company Hop Bill, ABV and Rating

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Meddlesome Under Pressure Vanilla Porter Review

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Beacon by Free Reign Brewing Co. Review

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Wicked Grove Crisp Apple Review: ALDI Exclusive Hard Cider, Tested

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Brew Beaux Review: T.F. Brewing Hazy IPA Loaded With Strata Hops

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Maybe Today Satan Review: Big Ugly Brewing’s Award-Winning Hazy Double IPA

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Beer is my life

Having been an active brewer for over 10 years, making, tasting, and visiting breweries worldwide, I set up this blog to showcase my experiences with you.

But, wherever you are, a glass of refreshing beverage can bring you back home with a sip. Celebrations and get-togethers aren’t the same without bottles of beer clinking cheerily. Enjoy.

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