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With close to 7,500 brewing companies currently operating in the U.S., picking favorites is difficult.

With a decade of the craft beer revolution behind us, VinePair takes a look back at the most important breweries of the 2010s.

Vinepair's editors drank a lot of beer in 2019. Here are their favorite 50 beers from all over the world, from goses to IPAs to sours.

No Texan food is as widely known, cooked, consumed, and debated about as queso.

We all try our best to drink responsibly, but hangovers happen. Here, 15 beer industry professionals share the hangover cures they swear by.

As breweries co-opt cultural references to sell their brands, the legal gray area of beer labels is getting increasingly hazy.

There's a lot to love about cascara, a coffee-tea hybrid made by steeping the dried husks of coffee fruit in water. It's reasonably caffeinated, can be served hot or cold, and is the coffee industry's answer to nose-to-tail eating.

Our process was simple: We entered each national dining chain, asked the bartender for whatever they deemed their location's "flagship Margarita," and individually scored the drink based on presentation, balance of flavors and value for money.

How it tastes and whether someone actually buys and drinks the stuff is beside the point.

In November 2018, a bottle of 60-year-old Macallan single-malt whisky sold at auction for $1.5 million. It was the third such bottle to surpass the million-dollar mark that year and the third to smash the world record for the world's most expensive whisky. Things haven't always been this way.

Thanks to Jimmy Buffett's devoted fan base, despite its dismal reviews Landshark Lager sells close to 4 million cases a year in America, which makes it a better seller at retail than Guinness.

The acquisition threatens to squelch individual creativity and could single-handedly dictate beer trends to meet corporate needs.

Specialized firms like The Irish Pub Company (IPC) and ÓL Irish Pubs Ltd., both based in Dublin and backed by Guinness, along with smaller, more locally focused outfits like Love Irish Pubs, have helped install prefab pubs everywhere from small-town Ireland to Lagos, Nigeria.

In 2018, the fast-casual company successfully reinvigorated its brand by ditching menu items customers "can't pronounce," and doubling down on "comfort." It worked.