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30 most memorable beers 2025

Craig’s 30 Most Memorable Beers of 2025

As has been discussed in my previous two years’ lists, breweries again were closing faster than they were opening. It seems to have slowed down when compared to 2024 (and maybe even 2023) but it’s still happening at an alarmingly...

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Episode 621 – Let The Fun Be Gin

For the first time in Barrel-Aged December history, we have a whole show of gin barrel-aged beers – and we’ll tell you why that’s something of a rarity. With an all-star lineup of breweries, nothing here is a letdown –...

top beers 2022

Ryan’s Top 40 Beers of 2022

The criteria for the list is simple: these are the best beers that I had this year that were (mostly) released this year. I undoubtedly left off many other great beers I had this year because I’m not a very...

monthly sampler september 2022

ABV Chicago Monthly Sampler: September 2022

Each month, we like to highlight twelve drinks we found personally interesting, delicious, or exciting from (mostly) local sources with the hopes of passing on our recommendations to those that are interested in reading arbitrary reviews. Some of these were...