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Goat Cheese, Zucchini & Basil Flatbread with Raspberry Sauce

This beautiful flatbread looks impressive, but is dead simple to make.

Obatzter Beer-Cheese Dip

This German beer-cheese spread (pronounced “OH-bots-duh”) is a Bavarian biergarten mainstay.

Pimiento Cheese and Beer Soup

A bottle of brown ale lends our beer-cheese soup a nice nuttiness; pimientos and hot sauce give it a kick.

Gruyere and Abbey Ale Gougeres

Elevated with a splash of abbey ale, these French cheese puffs are savory and rich, but cloudlike, too.

Buffalo chicken dip

IPA-simmered chicken melts with hot sauce for an addictive dip that’s more portable (and pleasantly gooier) than Buffalo wings.

Chile Con Queso with Charred Chiles

A Mexican lager in a chili-cheese dip? Instant fiesta!

Smoked Gouda Soup with IPA

A creamy, beer-and-Gouda soup any self-respecting cheesehead should try at least once.

Bee Stings

Honey- and truffle oil-drizzled cheese bites that come together super-quick.

 

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If it looks like a Fuzzy Baby Duck and quacks like a Fuzzy Baby Duck, it must be this IPA from @taproom_at_newenglandbrewing. Featuring a bill stacked exclusively with Citra hops, FBD paddles across the palate with notes of mango, honeydew and wet grass before a duckling-soft finish.
Bathmophobia is the fear of stairs or steep slopes. It's a common neurosis among domesticated animals and certain U.S. presidents. But those who suffer from it need not fear this double IPA from @greenpoint.beer; it’s a slow, smooth downward grade from the front of the sip (packed with chopped scallions and cilantro, plus a quick burst of dank weed midpalate) to the placid finish of fluffy wheat and sweet lemon squares. Although, with just a few sips, you may develop cenosillicaphobia—the fear of an empty glass.
That pickled shrimp looks incredible, right? It's a staple snack in the South and will become one in your fridge after you make and taste our witbier-flavored version. Grab the recipe via the link in our profile.
Break out your Audobon guide and start practicing your bird calls--flocks of bird-themed beers are landing on shelves and taplists nationwide. We found 10 worth tweeting about; flap on up to the link in our profile and check them out. (Photo by @ed_rudolph)
Turn on the dubstep, wait for the drop, then crack open @elysianbrewing's Dayglow IPA. Its hop character bounces with Clementine orange and lilac as well as pine bark and mint; it's a bit all over the place, but the toast-and-toffee bassline keeps the party lit.
It's official: Coconut IPA is trending (check the link in our profile for the proof). One of our favorites? @denverbeerco's Maui Express, whose aroma is 95 percent dank, resinous, sticky hops and five percent coconut oil. That duality echoes on the tongue, where bold sticky-icky hops cede to pineapple notes, which connect beautifully with the coconut at the Almond Joy finish.
The best thing about our trip to @halfacrebeer? The inspiration for some rad new office decor (who *doesn't* want to work next to a spiky grizzly bursting through the wall?). This glass of LA Looks--an IPA brewed with coconut butter that tastes like smooth, sweet coconut and pineapple purée with a grass and Juicyfruit gum finish--was a close second, though.
It may not be available from sea to shining sea (just the Chicagoland area and and a couple lucky bottle shops in Wisconsin), but Alemerica the Beautiful has amber waves of grain, at least. Hops, too--about two pounds per barrel of Mosaic, which give the pale ale a nose like grapefruit-mango-pineapple smoothies as well as flavors of blueberries and lawn clippings to go with a sweet un-glazed donut finish. God shed his grace on *thee*, @hopbutcher.

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