You all loved this piece so much the past couple of years that we’ve decided to keep updating it yearly, adding new brewery memberships and bottle societies we hear about and updating past ones with revised details for current editions. This year, we’re even adding a new category for beer clubs, which aren’t necessarily exclusive bottle drops but rather yearly… The post The 20 Best Brewery Memberships, Bottle Societies, and Beer Clubs appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

Last month, we drank a lot of beer, traveling from Bellevue to Yakima Valley, WA, for the hop harvest and finally to Denver for the Great American Beer Festival. So, to be fair, we’ve eased back the gas in November. While this list may look a little lighter than the thirty days before, we still found time to… Sip on… The post Top 10 Beers We Drank in November 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

Every year, the Great American Beer Festival (GABF) descends in Denver, CO. We just went a couple of weeks ago, attending the GABF Awards Ceremony, which awarded 326 Medals to 273 breweries and cideries with the top beers and ciders of the year in 102 categories. We also had a chance to get around to some of our favorite breweries… The post The 21 Best Breweries in Denver, Colorado appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

While we’ve already covered our favorite beer glasses, beer fridges, and best beer merch of the year, let’s get down to the nitty-gritty. How many of you are homebrewers yourselves or know someone who has a passion for keeping carboys in the closet or gear in the garage? We’ve even thrown a homebrewing party or two for our crew. Why?… The post The Best Homebrewing Gifts of 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

Do you love beer? Silly question, right? You’re reading Hop Culture, so you obviously enjoy beer to some degree. But let’s dig a little further. Have you checked off a beer resolution in 2024? We…went to a hop harvest ✅ Visited ten new breweries in our home state from Sonoma to Oakland to Los Angeles ✅ Wrote about beer styles… The post The Best Beer Gifts for the Holidays 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

Working for a beer magazine has its perks. We love trying new beers that brewers across the country send us. It’s one of the best ways to keep up with what’s new and hot in the industry (that and Instagram, of course). So we need a serious beer fridge to keep up with all the hazies, American IPAs, light lagers,… The post Best Beer Fridges of 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

Let’s be honest: This year has been another one full of twists and turns. But as we round the corner to December, we’ve decided to make this the year of thanks. This holiday season, thank those close to you, such as your parents, siblings, better half, best friend, crazy aunt, or chosen family. Of course, be thankful for your local… The post Beers We’re Thankful for This Thanksgiving appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

We have a secret to admit. If you open up our closet at home or pull out one of our dresser drawers, you’ll find a collection of brewery sweatshirts, hats, and tees that rival any sneakerhead’s selection. Only difference? Luckily, we don’t need to spend hundreds of dollars to outfit ourselves with our favorite brewery gear. And we feel pretty… The post Best Brewery Merch of 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

The line wrapped around the entire building, stretching into the parking lot and curling around on itself like a puppy chasing its tail. In the unseasonably warm Denver air, people had shown up in droves at 11 a.m., shelling out over $200 a ticket. Those like Joel Miller, an award-winning homebrewer from Richmond, VA, who told me he’d just gotten… The post Saving People With Prostates One Pint at a Time appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more

The best beer glasses, like any coveted item, have changed over the years. 8-tracks became cassette tapes, became CDs, became iPods, became Spotify. Are we right? While we don’t expect to drink digitally anytime soon, despite the growth of AI, we have seen glassware in the U.S. transform. Most importantly, we’ve seen a shift away from the awful shaker pint… The post Best Beer Glasses to Buy in 2024 appeared first on Hop Culture ..read more