Friends, colleagues and community members tip their glass to founder Dave Hoops as the Canal Park brewery nears its final pour on Monday, Feb. 23.

Dave Hoops, the most influential brewer in Duluth, opened his namesake brewery's beer hall in 2017. The Canal Park brewery will close Feb. 23, after a last pour.

The Brewers Association added four subcategories to its guidelines for the 2025 Great American Beer Festival.

Many of my go-to beers this time of year include Oktoberfests, amber and brown ales, Irish stouts, pale ales and coffee beers.

Summer is the time when wheat beers really flex.

Do you know what "lauter" is? How about "dry hopping?"

There is more to life than beer alone, but beer makes those other things even better.

Stouts pair well with smoked foods, barbecue, chili, chocolate and more.

The festival started as a birthday party for Scott “Starfire” Lunt, but more than two decades later is much, much more.

DULUTH, Minn. — 25 years ago, Dave Hoops left California and returned to the northland where he was born. “I moved to Duluth, Christmas, ’99 with my wife and newborn daughter,” Dave Hoops, Owner of...

In the first decade, breweries were few but popping up with better beer being made and the built-in advantage we had with our perfect brewing water.

Until recently, the options were limited to O'Douls and Clausthaler.