The Palate-Wrecking IPA Is Born
In the second installment of a three-part series, Aaron Goldfarb examines the early 2000s, when the hop wars reached their height and the beer can went modernist.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Raphaelle Macaron
How Lager Got Its Groove Back
Domestic brewers are plumbing the depths of the category and proving that it’s far more than “fizzy yellow beer.”
- story: Justin Kennedy
- photo: Nick Hensley
The Coronation of Craft Beer
In the first installment of a three-part series, Aaron Goldfarb examines the 1980s and '90s when the brewpub was born, “micro” was king and beer met the barrel in earnest.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- photo: Carmela Caldart
Ice Beer, Beyond Bud
Once the dominion of macrolagers, “icing” is experiencing an unlikely craft revival.
- story: Ryan Pachmayer
- photo: Nick Hensley
Has Craft Beer Already Imagined a Better Future?
Though far from perfect, the grassroots spirit of craft beer has made it a model for the drink industry’s larger push toward diversity and inclusion.
- story: Beth Demmon
- photo: Eliana Rodgers
Great IPAs, Better Goodwill
Imagine Nation’s founders bring their experience in trauma psychology and humanitarian aid to a new kind of community brewery.
- story: Adam Erace
- illustration: Nick Hensley
RIP Quarantinis, and Other Drinking Resolutions
A handful of our favorite drinkers look back at 2020 to determine what they absolutely won't (and will) do again.
- story: Punch Staff
- illustration: Rymie
Bringing Craft Beer Back Down to Earth
Averie Swanson has made some of the country’s most coveted beers. At her new brewery, Keeping Together, she wants to make beer for “literally everyone.”
- story: Bailey Berg
- illustration: Nick Hensley
There’s an IPA for That
With styles that range from Low-Cal to New England to Brut, the modern IPA is whatever you want it to be.
- story: Megan Krigbaum
- illustration: Rymie
Fan Fiction for Beer Nerds
The home-brewed spinoffs of one of the world’s most sought-after beers have become collector’s items in their own right.
- story: Aaron Goldfarb
- illustration: Nick Hensley
They’ll Be Drinking in the Street
Photographer Clay Williams surveys how Brooklyn is drinking this summer, from Carroll Gardens to Bed-Stuy.
- story: Clay Williams
- photos: Clay Williams
Buy Sam a Beer
I asked strangers on the internet to buy me a quarantine beer. Surprisingly, they did.
- story: Sam Wagner
- illustration: Buy Sam a Beer