Pelican Lite IPA is here, and it’s Pelican Brewing Company’s first low-calorie, low-carb beer. The Oregon coast brewery announced it on Oct. 15, 2026, in the middle of its 30th-anniversary year, describing a 5.4% ABV IPA with 122 calories and 3 grams of carbs per 12-ounce serving, per the release carried by New School Beer…
Earth bulletin, Bay Area sector: two breweries have issued a public calm-down order, and it comes in a can. Nobody Panic IPA is a 7% collaboration between Oakland’s Original Pattern Brewing Co. and Lagunitas of Petaluma. It was released Friday, Oct. 16, 2026, at Original Pattern’s taproom at 292 4th St. in Oakland and shipped…
Harvest telemetry from the Chicago suburbs: the hops were still practically breathing. Noon Whistle Fresh Hop IPA, officially Centennial Fresh Hop IPA, goes on tap Thursday, Oct. 15, 2026, at both Noon Whistle Brewing locations in Lombard and Naperville, Ill., according to the brewery’s release page. What makes the Noon Whistle Fresh Hop IPA fresh…
One heist, one funeral, zero actual casualties. North Park Beer Co. has released two new cans this week: Picking Dragons’ Pockets, an 8.2% triple dry-hopped hazy double IPA, and Dead as a Doornail, a 6.2% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA, both listed on the brewery’s online shop for pre-order. The San Diego brewery wrote one…
Harvest beacon detected out of Chico: Celebration season has entered the atmosphere. Sierra Nevada Celebration 2026, the 45th edition of the brewery’s winter Fresh Hop IPA, has begun shipping, and Earthlings should see it on shelves across the country through the second half of October, according to a Sierra Nevada press release published by New…
Boneyard Pub, Boneyard Beer’s restaurant at 1955 NE Division St. in Bend, Ore., is closing, and Sunday, Oct. 11, 2026, is its scheduled final day. The brewery itself isn’t going anywhere: the original taproom at 37 NW Lake Place and the production brewery keep running, according to the press release published by the Northwest Beer…
Hop Suisse is a 6.9% double dry-hopped West Coast IPA from Carlsbad’s Burgeon Beer Co., brewed in collaboration with WhiteFrontier, a brewery in Martigny, Switzerland. It came out Friday, Oct. 9, in 4-packs and on draft, alongside a new hazy IPA called Freaky Tiki, according to Burgeon’s release post. A San Diego County brewery and…
Somerset Brewing is about to trade its small West Hempstead taproom for a building more than twice the size. The brewery plans to open a 5,000-square-foot taproom with a full restaurant at 116 Cherry Valley Ave. sometime in October, just across the parking lot from its current home at 94C Cherry Valley Ave., the Long…
Countdown check, Earthlings: the Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary celebration starts today, Friday, Oct. 9, at 2 p.m. ET (11 a.m. PT), when the Sharpsburg brewery near Pittsburgh releases three anniversary beers. Saturday, Oct. 10, brings 10 collaboration beers, including one with Maine’s Bissell Brothers. Here’s the two-day flight plan. The Dancing Gnome 10th anniversary schedule…
Same grain, same hops, two breweries, two very different IPAs. That’s the pFriem x Fort George collaboration: pFriem’s Vacation Destination, a West Coast IPA, and Fort George’s Destination Vacation, a hazy IPA, both 7% ABV. They released Oct. 8 on draft and in 16 oz 4-packs at both breweries’ tasting rooms and roll out through…
The can reads like a field report: “Beginnings: 1870’s. Concrete structures: 1915-1954. Chrysalis: 1972 – Present. Rebirth: Future Imminent.” That’s Graffiti Mill West Coast IPA, a 7.0% ABV collaboration between Minneapolis’ Utepils Brewing and Graffiti Mill, and it officially releases today, Friday, Oct. 9, at the Utepils taproom. Earthlings, the lager specimen has gone West…
North Park’s The Original 40 Brewing Company, voted as Best Brewpub 2024 by readers of San Diego Magazine, today released Left Coast West Coast IPA on draft and in four packs of 16-oz cans. Brewer Steven Terán made the announcement. Left Coast is 7.0% alcohol-by-volume (ABV), and it was brewed with Amarillo, Chinook, and Simcoe Cryo hops. The…
Karl Strauss, San Diego’s longest continuously operating post-Prohibition brewing company, will launch Tower X² Double IPA on draft and in four packs of 16-oz cans this Thursday at its nine Southern California locations. With an 8.5% ABV, the beer is a stronger version of core beer Tower X West Coast IPA that was released last year with…
Tennessee’s TailGate Brewery, an independently owned craft brewery known for a diverse craft beer lineup and made-from-scratch pizza, announces the launch of Juice Wizard IPA (6% ABV). Juice Wizard is the first release of TailGate Brewery’s Wizards’ Order IPA series, a rotating lineup of IPAs that will be available at all eight of TailGate Brewery’s vibrant…
Montauk Brewing Company (“Montauk Brewing” or “Montauk”), the leading and fastest-selling craft brewer in Metro New York known for its exceptional craft beers and a subsidiary of Tilray Brands, Inc. (NASDAQ: TLRY and TSX: TLRY), has announced the return of Project 4:20 India Pale Ale, a limited release crafted to celebrate and support green charities…
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