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Forbes
10-05-2025
- Entertainment
- Forbes
Mother's Day Gift Guide: Hoppiest IPAs
Give your mom a big hug, a Big Mango Beer Hug, this Mother's Day. Sometimes, mama just wants a beer. A lot of moms I know love beer, especially IPAs, so here's a selection of some of the hoppiest brews to make your mama happy this Mother's Day. Goose Island Beer Co. Big Mango Beer Hug, $12.99/6-pack of 12 oz. cans If your mom loves both hops and fruit, then look no further than Big Mango Beer Hug. This luscious IPA is bursting with mango aromas with just the right amount of fruity sweetness to balance the 9.9.% ABV. Goose Island also has a few other hugs for your mom - Big Juicy Beer Hug and Tropical Beer Hug, and if you can't decide, get your mom a variety pack. If your mom likes IPAs and the Packers, then grab her a pac of Grassy Place Hazy IPAs. Badger State Brewing Grassy Place Hazy IPA, $11.99/4-pack Grassy Place Hazy IPA has a juicy, tropical and smooth hop flavor and big aroma, led by "Badger Bits" citra hops. Its intentionally hazy appearance is created by adding massive amounts of hops in the fermenter. The result is a smooth and approachable brew, with a 6.7 %ABV. Take your mom camping, and bring along a 6-pack of Camp Coldie. 10 Barrel Brewing Camp Coldie, $11.99/6-pack, 12-oz. A collaboration beer between two of the Pacific Northwest's most innovative outdoor brands, 10 Barrel Brewing and SCOUT Campers, Camp Coldie is a low-ABV, high-adventure West Coast IPA, perfect for moms who love the outdoors. Medium-bodied, subtly sweet and balanced with gentle bitterness, Camp Coldie packs all the flavor of a classic West Coast IPA into a gentler punch. If your mom loves citrus notes, then she will love Elvis Juice. BrewDog USA Elvis Juice, $10.99/6-pack BrewDog USA recently unveiled a fresh new look to its iconic Elvis Juice Citrus IPA. This 6.5 percent ABV now features a zesty orange packaging. This citrus-loaded beer with a crisp finish is perfect to celebrate with mom outside. The Cosmic Crusher IPA is one of three in the Mind Haze series. Firestone Walker Mind Haze Cosmic Crusher,$12.99/6-pack The universe of Mind Haze IPAs is one your mother might think worth exploring. The Cosmic Crusher offers the biggest burst of flavor, with a 9.5 percent ABV, along with pineapple and mango flavors. There's also original Mind Haze and Mind Haze Brain Melter, too. Chaos Pattern is the most popular beer brewed at this Wisconsin brewery. 3 Sheeps Brewing Chaos Pattern, $10.50/6-pack of 12 oz. cans This IPA is the top selling beer at this Wisconsin brewery. An artfully crafted blend of Citra, Eukanot, Cascade, and Centennial hops with a 6.5 percent ABV offers a mix of familiar and unexpected citrus notes. Each sip unveils layers of juicy orange, zesty grapefruit, and a touch of floral lime. Phaze Dust is an imperial hazy IPA that's citrus forward and bursting with flavor. Elysian Brewing Phaze Dust IPA, $12.99/6-pack, 12-ounce cans Phaze Dust Hazy IPA is the newest member of the Space Dust series of beers. This citrus-forward, 8.2% ABV imperial hazy IPA is crafted with a blend of Chinook, Amarillo, Citra Incognito, and Citra Cryo hops, alongside the rare and innovative, citrus-forward, Oregon-grown Luminosa hops. It carries the familiar citrus notes found throughout the Space Dust series, complemented by a soft bitterness and pillowy mouthfeel with sweet hints of candied peach, mango, and tangerine. Double Dale's is an imperial IPA that is quite well balanced and delicious. Oskar Blues Brewery Dale's Double IPA, $3.49/can First released in 2022, Dale's Double IPA is a well-balanced Imperial IPA. The first sip is crisp with biscuit and a very light honeysuckle character that imparts a unique complexity on a simple backdrop. It's a great beer to sip on a hot Mother's Day. Is your mom the sunshine of your life? Gift her with a Sip of Sunshine. Lawson's Finest Liquids Sip of Sunshine IPA, $16.99/4-pack, 16-oz. cans This 8% ABV IPA is a lupulin-laden IPA packed with juicy tropical fruit character, bright floral aromas and delectable layers of hop flavor. This iconic flagship IPA is celebrating its 10 year anniversary this year, making it perfect for Mother's Day. Is your mom a fan of fantasy novels with wizards? Pair this juicy IPA with a good book for a perfect ... More Mother's Day gift. TailGate Brewery Juicebox Wizard IPA, $11.99/6-pack 12-oz. cans Description: Juicebox Wizard IPA is the latest release in TailGate Brewery's Wizard's Order IPA series. With a 6% ABV, Juicebox Wizard is a juicy, hazy IPA with balanced bitterness leading to bright flavors of pink grapefruit, stone fruit and hints of guava and raspberry. Fans of the Wizards' Order IPA series will enjoy this fresh and approachable take on the style. Flavorwave is an IPA that's packed with flavor. Indeed Brewing Company Flavorwave IPA, $10.99/6-pack, 12 oz. cans Flavorwave IPA is a hazy-ish IPA swelling with tropical hop aromas and fruity flavors. With a 6.2% ABV, sipping on this is like ripping through a juicy barrel of five shining hop varieties, coming out the other end, and coasting into shore. Broken Hops makes two IPAs, West Coast and Hazy. Broken Hops Brewing Co. West Coast IPA, $13.99/4-pack, 16 oz. cans Broken Hop's flagship West Coast IPA is clean and elegant with the mouthfeel of a lager, but the hop character of a west coast IPA, with 7% ABV. Smooth and easy drinking, but packed with hop flavor and bitterness, this IPA has an herbal, grapefruit nose and firm bitterness
Yahoo
14-02-2025
- Business
- Yahoo
‘Will never happen again': Titletown businesses planning massive tailgates, other parking lot events
GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – With road closures and traffic mayhem expected for Titletown during the NFL Draft, local businesses are getting creative with what they are planning for their parking lots. Badger State Brewing hopes to bring in vendors, and live music and save some room for tailgating. 'We've got a collection of food trucks to help service the sheer volume of people that are going to be in the area. And then in addition to that we've partnered with a few Wisconsin-based brands,' Badger State Brewing Company founder and president Andrew Fabry said. 'We knew the visibility would be great just for us as a brand just to start. And so we reached out to other brands that we feel align with our values.' Ron's Wisconsin Cheese will be releasing a beer cheese spread containing Badger State's Brewski Lite Lager, and other businesses expected to bring a strong presence on draft weekend are J. Henry and Sons, Palo Popcorn, and Drink Wisconsinibly. 'Really hope we can pull this off': Downtown Green Bay planning events, stocking up for draft visitors 'I could see us adding just a handful more. But really they have to align with us and with Badger State in order to fit the bill,' Fabry said. 'We are still basically accepting invites via our website, we've got a Contact Us page if brands or folks want to reach out, we're happy to have a discussion.' There is a fee that Badger State Brewing is charging because they say they are seeking committed vendors who will help put on an event that is bigger than just the individual setup they put together. 'We are asking for an investment up front basically to ensure they will be here because we are going to be promoting this event as a 'Tailgate at Badger State,'' Fabry said. 'We care a lot about this and it's really important, I think, that we roll out the red carpet to those people coming to town and showcase Wisconsin and Green Bay in the best way possible.' Fabry hopes to have enough room for typical tailgating as well and will have a weather-ready beer garden, too. 'We are still hoping that we can save some spaces out there for people who want to come park and tailgate,' he said. 'Our beer garden is going to be entirely tented and heated for the entire week just in case we run into some funky weather in April.' Live music will be a highlight, and just like with the vendors, Fabry says there is an emphasis on highlighting local talent. 'Rather than try to book nationally touring acts, we booked local bands,' Fabry said. 'We went with all local bands and musicians because we wanted to make sure those groups were part of the action too, not just nationally touring.' 'It's an eye catcher': Packers at Super Bowl in NOLA hoping to attract extra draft visitors Fabry does not know that everyone realizes the magnitude of the draft yet, but he hopes that preparation and brainstorming get underway so that people buy into Green Bay's biggest weekend. 'It's huge. And I'm not sure that everybody sees it or understands the sheer impact that it's going to have,' Fabry said. 'It may be a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity. So we're hoping for the best, and I think the closer we get to the event the more eyes are starting to open up to how big this is going to be as well.' For the Green Bay Distillery, the draft is providing an opportunity to cash all in on parking. 'You can tailgate outside kind of like a Packer game day, but it's just going to be a little bit different because it's going to be at least twice as many people here as a game day,' events manager Cassie Bone said. 'It'll be a long week but it'll be fun too because it's a once-in-a-lifetime experience.' Bone says there are roughly 300 spots and they will be charging $100 per spot per day. Roughly half across all days of the draft are already booked. Patrons are able to reserve tables both inside and outside the distillery, and live music will take place every afternoon and evening. The distillery is expecting to hire more staff members to aid with the surge in business. 'It's a lot, it's trying to figure out how many servers we need, how many bartenders we need, who we need where, what times. We're going to have beers set up everywhere so people can just walk up and buy a drink. So we probably need double the staff,' Bone said. 'We'll probably hire some new staff too, add some people on. But it'll probably be long days, like 7 a.m. to 2 a.m. Definitely going to be a lot of work, but definitely looking forward to it. Because it's maybe something that will never happen again.' Copyright 2025 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.
