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The American Craft Beer Hall of Fame has announced its class of Landmark Beers for 2026.
I am indeed trying to keep doing small updates to this site. At one point I’ll have some static pages about places I’ve visited amd their beers I’ve sampled. And I continue trying to rescue beer pictures to match with my reviews and articles.
As their page explains it, these beers were measured by these parameters:
- They helped increase awareness and popularity of craft beer in America.
- They changed the way Americans looked at beer.
- They introduced new and exciting beer styles in America.
- They set a benchmark for the style or process
The five sophomore beers are:
- Allagash White Ale – This iconic flagship beer, launched in 1995, is a top-tier, benchmark examples of a Belgian-style Witbier brewed in the United States. A perennial award-winner domestically and internationally.
- Alaskan Smoked Porter – Introduced in1988, this smoked porter paved the way for many different smoked styles that followed. ASP holds the distinction of winning more medals at the Great American Beer Festival than any other beer.
- Goose Island Bourbon County Stout – The first-ever commercial beer aged in wooden barrels that previously contained a non-beer alcoholic beverage -in this case, Bourbon. It created a whole new beer style category and a whole new palette for craft brewers to use in creating new and unique beer flavors.
- Pete’s Wicked Ale – Launched in 1986, Pete’s Wicked Ale is a pioneer of the American Brown Ale style that helped define the craft beer movement in the United States. At one time it was the second best-selling craft beer in the United States.
- Russian River Pliny the Elder – Pliny is an iconic, highly-rated Double (Imperial) India Pale Ale introduced in 1999. Pliny helped popularize the West Coast Double IPA style and is widely considered a benchmark for that style.
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