Landmark American Beers and UK brewery closures slowing

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This week we’re talking about the important stuff: beach bummin’, bass fishin’, and drinking beer outside. We recently spent some time at Halfway Crooks, and their biergarten is exactly the kind of place that makes you question why you ever drink beer indoors.

On the beer news front, GABF medals are getting a facelift. One of the most recognizable pieces of hardware in craft beer is changing things up, so naturally we’ve got some thoughts.

There’s some pretty crappy industry news, too. SS Brewtech and Wild Goose are shutting down, which is a big deal considering how much equipment from both companies you’ll find sitting in breweries all over the place. Across the pond, though, there’s at least a little good news as brewery closures in the UK have slowed dramatically.

We also take a look at the 2026 Craft Beer Hall of Fame Landmark Beers. These are the beers that helped shape craft beer as we know it, and it’s always fun to look back at the stuff that made people lose their minds before we had 47 different kinds of hazy IPA.

Then we get weird.

Protein beer is apparently a thing now, because somebody finally looked at beer and thought, “You know what this needs? Macros.” We also check out the Wobbly Beer Glass, a wonderfully ridiculous piece of glassware that seems specifically designed to make drinking beer more complicated than necessary.

And finally, Iron Hill is back in the news with an unexpected merger. After everything that’s happened with the brewery, this one definitely caught our attention, so we dig into what happened and where things might go from here.

Grab a beer and hang out with us.

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