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one hop

Episode 657 – One Hop This Time

It’s not so common anymore to see beers with just a single hop, but when we do, we embrace the opportunity to teach ourselves a little something. We have five beers, each made with a different single hop, and we...

beer under glass 2026

Beer Under Glass 2026

Returning again to Millennium Park, Beer Under Glass landed on another perfect Spring-to-Summer transition weather day, with temperatures hovering around 60 under clear skies – with the help of some weather-ready tenting this year just in case. Outside of some...

lactose tolerance

Episode 640 – Lactose Tolerance

Some might say that using lactose is antithetical to good beer, but there’s some distinct purpose in using milk sugar in certain beers despite it causing all us 40-and-ups some real tummy troubles. For this episode, we try four lactose-enhanced...

barrel-aged hop butcher

Episode 624 – Barrel-Aged Hop Butcher

Compared to the pace at which Hop Butcher releases IPAs, their barrel-aged offerings might as well be Halley’s Comet. But when they do release a big beer aged in barrels, it’s absolutely worth tracking down, just like the four beers...