The Best Beer of the Month: May 2021

The number one question we get asked at The Beer Travel Guide: “Had any good beers lately?” And the answer, invariably, is always yes. In the past, we’ve made our fair readers wait until the end of the year to Read more…


The Best Beer of the Month: April 2021

The number one question we get asked at The Beer Travel Guide: “Had any good beers lately?” And the answer, invariably, is always yes. In the past, we’ve made our fair readers wait until the end of the year to Read more…


The Best Beers at Last Drop Beer Festival: Forbidden Tiki Fest

Last year, we began hearing about a new virtual beer fest outfit in our neck of the woods in Southern California called Last Drop Beer Festival. The selections seemed impressive by local virtual beer fest standards, so we were very Read more…


The Best Breweries in Flagstaff

We love visiting cities that give us a wide variety of things to do— so there are few cities in the West we love more than Flagstaff. There’s skiing, there’s hiking, there’s camping. There are nearby lakes for boating, there Read more…


The Best Beer of the Month: March 2021

The number one question we get asked at The Beer Travel Guide: “Had any good beers lately?” And the answer, invariably, is always yes. In the past, we’ve made our fair readers wait until the end of the year to Read more…


List of Alaska’s Top Breweries

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Until we write our full guide to Alaska, here is a list of the best breweries in Alaska, according to Untappd, along with information about hours of operation and food options. This list will be updated frequently, but if you Read more…


The Best Beers at the 2021 Extreme Beer Fest

It’s been far too long since our last beer festival. In fact, our last true beer fest was a year ago to date, before the pandemic shut down the entire beer festival circuit. We’ve missed beer festivals desperately: our friends Read more…


The Best Beer We Had From Every State in 2020

In 2018, we created the #FiftyStatesChallenge. The goal was simple: have at least one craft beer from every state in America. Last year, we’d accomplished our goal by mid-October thanks to beer festivals and trades early in the year… but Read more…


The Best IPAs of 2020

For us, the IPA is the pizza of the beer world. You can change the ingredients, you can make it simpler or heavier, you can make it crisper or softer… but as long as the basic formula is the same, Read more…


The Best Stouts of 2020

Incoming hot take: stouts are delicious. We love them to warm us up on a cool wintry day, and we love them as a roasty post-dinner treat. Or a pre-dinner treat. Or during dinner. Or with any meal. The point Read more…