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Pigs & Pinot: The Most Powerful Father-Son Food Weekend in Sonoma
By Cool Material
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The No-Shame Adult Guide to Instant Noodles

The best instant noodles for upgrading your pantry without abandoning nostalgia.

By Brett Braley
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The Coolest Food Gifts for 2025

Chomp, chomp.

By Cool Material
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How to Pair Booze With Caviar

Because a gentleman of taste ought to possess at least a passing familiarity with the cold soul of the sea.

By Johnny Motley
Features
The 8 Beers You Should Drink This Summer

The smell of burgers searing on the grill is best accompanied by the taste of a cold, refreshing beer. A great summer beer cools you off and quenches your thirst while tasting damn good in the process. So put away the barrel-aged stouts and heavy barleywines and reach for one of these. These…

By Mike Newman
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Carlsberg Father of Quality Lager Is Brewed With Yeast From a 133-Year-Old Bottle

Unbeknownst to most, Carlsberg created a pure yeast over a century ago and distributed it for free to other breweries to combat beer sickness and widespread inconsistencies in repeated brews. The Re-Brew project uses an extracted sample of that original yeast from a 133-year-old Carlsberg bottle recently discovered in an…

By Cooper Fleishman
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Articles
14 Better Bottle Openers

There’s a world of beer we want to drink, and a lot of it comes in bottles. While you could open these 12-ouncers with a flat surface, a key, or—gasp!—your teeth, we prefer the simplest, least dentally damaging method: the bottle opener. Now that doesn’t mean you need a plastic…

By Cool Material Guest
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Reese’s Peanut Butter Cup Stuffed With Reese’s Pieces

In the candy aisle hierarchy, Reese's Peanut Butter Cups and Reese's Pieces stand next to each other near the top. Instead of duking it out and trampling over each other to get to Take 5 (because, let's be honest, that's who is at the top), Hershey's is letting them join forces.…

By Mike Newman
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Steel Groove Beer Cap Map

The USA Beer Cap Map we know and love just got a fresh, shiny upgrade. The new Steel Groove version of the map that holsters the bottle caps from your booze-fueled nights now comes in 20-gauge steel. Just like the original, this Steel version holds over 150 caps, so you can save…

By Mike Newman
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