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Gluten-free beer used to have a terrible reputation. And honestly? Some of it was deserved. A lot of early gluten-free beers tasted thin, strange, overly sweet, or just felt like a compromise compared to “real” beer. But the category has changed massively over the last few years, while public opinion mostly stayed stuck in the past. Today, some breweries make gluten-free IPAs, lagers, and stouts that most drinkers would never identify as gluten-free in a blind tasting. Scottish craft brewery...

For a long time, many of us beer geeks ran away from lager. When we were younger, #Lager was usually the cheapest beer we could get our hands on. The supermarket stuff. The student-budget stuff. The “it’s cold and alcoholic, so it works” stuff. In most cases, that meant Lager. Well… at least for most of us. My friend Sébastien in Quebec once told me that the best value-for-money beer when they were younger was a #Belgian-style tripel from Unibroue . Which honestly sounds like a pretty...