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Our first-ever Ommegang Hop Chef Competition at the Atlas in Washington D.C. was an amazing time and the dishes and pairings were delicious. Thank you to all the Chefs for the amazing food and volunteers for making our first Hop Chef event a memorable one.

Editor's Note: Food is even better with beer, and beer's even better with food. But what will taste particularly delicious with each beer style? We asked Certified Cicerone Michael Agnew to help us sort it all out.

The official start of summer is still a month away, but in many places summery weather has already arrived. Even up here in the frozen north where I live, shorts weather is here. It's time to break out the wheat beers.

By Marissa Payne

“The world almost seems flipped on its side — a revolution has happened,” reported Benj Steinman, president of the trade publication Beer Marketer’s Insight, in assessing the state of craft brewing.

A brew and a bro — it’s the classic pairing, right? Not necessarily.

From the rise of female brew masters to the growth of women’s tasting groups, women are becoming much more than a pint-sized part of the brewing world.

The emergence of women as both beer lovers and brewers happened as the craft beer scene grew overall by leaps and bounds, and that’s no coincidence, says Lisa Morrison, Oregon-based writer, blogger and author of “Craft Beers of the Pacific Northwest.”

The Big Texas Beer Fest was held this past Saturday, April 14th in Dallas and was a great success!

You read them in beer articles and you hear them in beer commercials, beer bars and breweries. Beer terminology can be confusing. And sometimes it's like trying to interpret a geeky, esoteric language. So to help you better understand it all, here is a glossary of beer terms with no-nonsense definitions.

By Hanna Laney, Marketing Coordinator, Great Divide Brewing Company

An underrated and delightful combination. Here are a few ways to go about it.
By Elizabeth Gunnison

First, a Few Words