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Jill Jaracz

Jill Jaracz is not a fruit, but she loves a good fruit beer. And wheats and wits. Catch her other writing at The Diva Platform, Prevention Magazine's Buzz Blogs, and Gapers Block.
 

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Jill’s top-rated beers:
Lost Coast Brewery Apricot Wheat
Florida Beer Company Beachside Sunlight
Founders Brewing Co. Blushing Monk
Jolly Pumpkin Calabaza Blanca
Founders Brewing Co. Cerise
Atwater Block Brewery Dirty Blonde
Three Floyds Brewing Co. Gorch Fock
Atwater Block Brewery Hell
Goose Island Beer Co. Sophie

Jill’s bottom-rated beers:
Barrel House Brewing Company Hocking Hills Hefeweizen
Ft. Collins Brewery Major Tom's Pomegranate Wheat
Dark Horse Brewing Co. Raspberry Ale
Millstream Brewing Schild Brau Amber
St. Croix Beer Company St. Croix Maple Ale
Mishawaka Brewing Company Wall Street Wheat
August Schell Brewing Zommerfest

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Want to know how healthy the craft beer industry is? As always, look to Portland. Craft pioneer Bridgeport announces sudden closure, adding to a growing list of PDX casualties.
Did Anheuser-Busch Chicago offer their shit beer to Cody Parkey before his missed field goal? Because that may explain why he "accidentally" biffed it.
Chicago now has the most breweries of any city in the country. Other things Chicago has the most of: murders, mobsters, and Ditkas.
Trying to spin it positive, BA releases end of year graphic. Only 5% growth in the craft sector when nearly 1000 new breweries opened? That's a collapse waiting to happen.
R.I.P. Tallgrass... another casualty as the regional/national craft beer market continues to get squeezed.
Wait... Constellation Brands cut all of the Ballast Point and Funky Buddha sales staff? They merged it with their Corona/Modelo staff?? We're SHOCKED!!!
Pizza Beer founder crying about failure of company, blames everyone else. Reminder, the beer tasted like vomit. Try having better ideas or making better products so you're not a failure.
It's Bud Light so doesn't really matter, but we expect this beer to be sitting around for awhile.
Indiana brewery to open with controversial beer names to "get the conversation going". Translation: taking advantage of serious issues for free publicity.
Hundreds of amazing beers in Wisconsin and the Cubs took back the one everyone drinks just because it exists and people have heard of it. How fitting...