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12 Holiday Beers, Ranked by How Much They Taste Like Christmas

“Ho ho ho, no! This beer tastes like a literal snickerdoodle.”

By Heather Hogan| December 13, 2018 | 11 Comments
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Alewives: The Women Who Crafted Beer and Split Hell Wide Open

For centuries, the art of brewing beer belonged to women alone. This is the story of how the church pushed them out the industry they founded and sent them riding piggy-back on demons into the flames of an eternal abyss.

By Heather Hogan| August 14, 2018 | 48 Comments
Food and Drink

10 Summer Beers to Drink Before Pumpkin Spice Takes Over

Vanilla and ginger and cinnamon and nutmeg are encroaching. Here are ten summer beers to try before they take over everything.

By Heather Hogan| August 25, 2017 | 20 Comments
Food and Drink

22 Beers To Brew At Home (Because Why Go Outside Again, Ever)

I’m ready to take back the heritage that is so rightfully ours, and one way I’m going to do that is by homebrewing my own goddamn beer. With my girlfriend. And her cat. Please join us.

By Laura Mandanas| December 19, 2016 | 11 Comments
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Sex Toy or Craft Beer?

Which witch is which?

By Carolyn Yates| June 8, 2016 | 16 Comments
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A Muggle’s Quest For The Perfect Mug Of (Alcoholic) Butterbeer

I’m not interested in the kiddie theme park variety made of cream soda and syrup from a squeeze bottle; I want hot, alcoholic, grown-ass woman butterbeer.

By Laura Mandanas| December 21, 2015 | 64 Comments
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28 Ways Cooking With Beer Is Magic

Always wondered about cooking with beer? YOUR TIME HAS COME.

By Carolyn Yates| September 7, 2015 | 11 Comments
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25 Pumpkin Beers, Ranked with Commentary

Sisters, All Hallow’s Eve has become a season of boozing, where women drink pumpkin ale and run amok!

By Heather Hogan| October 29, 2014 | 44 Comments
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Drinking My Way Through Texas: A Beer Diary of Sorts

I can’t tell you about the head or what it has “notes” of. But I can tell you about some beers I really enjoyed, a few I didn’t, and the things that happened along the way.

By Adrian| September 8, 2014 | 14 Comments
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Despite Luck of the Irish, Guinness, Heineken and Sam Adams Drop Sponsorship of Anti-LGBT St Patrick’s Parades

In a surprise turn of events, Guinness announced on Sunday that it will be pulling sponsorship from New York’s St Patrick’s Day parade on Monday, in support of LGBT groups. It joins Heineken and Sam Adams, who had earlier pulled their sponsorship from New York and Boston parades respectively.

By Laura Mandanas| March 17, 2014 | 15 Comments
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Liquor In The Beer Barrel: New Holland’s Beer Barrel Bourbon + Dragon’s Milk Stout

From what I can tell, New Holland pulls a switcheroo on each of these beverages to make two excellent, crossbred, yummy drinks. So today, I’m going to talk a little bit about both of them.

By A.E. Osworth| November 5, 2013 | 18 Comments
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The Women’s Libation Movement: Oregon’s Full Sail Brewing Co. Makes An Actual Feminist Beer

“My beer defies the traditional expectations of a ‘girl’s beer.'”

By Meredith| October 23, 2013 | 15 Comments
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