How to turn a light beer into something more flavorful
A lot of people today drink light beer because they’re counting calories, but many of them find low-cal beer a bit watered-down and tasteless. They may prefer the taste of craft beer, but a typical IPA or Pale Ale has 200 or more calories! That’s why Mad Hops Flavored...
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2017: The Summer of Beer in Upstate NY!
Doing our thing at the Saratoga Springs Craft Beer Festival! Looks like we’re using Rolling Rock! In upstate NY we celebrate summer with a great sense of urgency; there’s only a small window for us after fighting off a long winter. Spring ends late and fall comes...
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BeerAdvocate agrees with Mad Hops: The Customer Is Always Right
In his feature article The Power Is Yours: Customizing the Drinker Experience, BeerAdvocate’s Bryan Roth explores the recent trend towards personalizing your beer-drinking experience. The explosion of new craft varieties has raised our expectations of how a beer...
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Do You Know How Many Calories Are In That Beer?
Beer comes in all sorts of different styles, each with its own unique ingredients. Unlike food products, brewers aren’t required to disclose much nutritional information. In fact, they don’t even have to know what’s in their products! But now a new FDA regulation...
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Orendael meets professional arm wrestlers, hawks Mad Hops, and tell us about an IPA-flavored beer with under 100 calories
Hi again! Orendael here, Mad Hops Campus Champion for Cortland State in New York. Recently I had a chance to attend another local beer event as a Mad Hops representative. It’s one of the perks of being a Campus Champion. The event was the Man Show in Syracuse, just...
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The Complete Guide to Beer Pong: Its Glorious Past, Perfectly Adequate Present, and Uncertain Future
Beer pong is simple; two teams throwing a ping pong ball into a cup filled with beer. If you toss a ball in the cup, the other team has to drink the beer inside. Everybody wins. Life is good. The cups are usually set up in a triangle of either 6 or 10 cups. The first...
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Hey College Students! Drink beer with your friends, make $$$ and learn useful skills
During winter break I was at home in Buffalo when I saw an ad on Indeed for event marketing staff for a local company called Mad Hops. Since I am planning to go into marketing when I graduate I was looking for a part-time job that would offer experience and the chance...
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Can Mad Hops Flavorings Make Non-Alcoholic (NA) Beer Taste Good?
We give away thousands of glasses of flavored beer at festivals and beer stores every month, and one question people ask is whether Mad Hops can make non-alcoholic (NA) beer taste better. These brews have the reputation of being flavorless and a little weird-tasting....
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Thank you for telling the world about flavoring your beer with Mad Hops!
Thank you to all who have liked and shared your favorite Mad Hops flavors on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and Pinterest. We are up to over 1,700 followers on Instagram and 1,200 on Twitter! That's starting from zero just three months ago, and we have you to thank. If...
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Please help us get the word out about Mad Hops – and earn 20% off your next purchase!
Mad Hops is a new company manufacturing a new product and creating a new category in the beer industry. Practically nobody even knows we exist. That’s a challenge, but we’re up for it. With your help, I know Mad Hops will take over the world, one flavor drop at a...
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Naples (FL) Daily News – Mad Hops Changing Beer One Drop At A Time
Millennials, this one’s for you. A startup wants to give Budweiser and other economy brews a more interesting taste, one drop at a time. The drops are bottled and packaged in East Naples, Florida. Manufacturing for Mad Hops Flavored Brew Drops began in September at Alternative Labs with an initial run of 5,000 bottles. Another run will start soon. This time it will produce 35,000 bottles.
Alternative Labs’ CEO Kevin Thomas is a big believer. “It’s one of the top three unique-to-market trendsetting products I’ve seen,” Thomas said. “It creates demand for a category that has no players.”
FOCUS ON THE BEER: Brew Drops and Banquet: Have We Gone Mad?
Craft beer podcast Focus on the Beer got a hold of some Mad Hops and put it to a taste test. You can listen to their hilarious reactions on their radio show, or click over to their blog. Here's a sample of what they said: We got some advance samples of Mad Hops and...
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Mad Hops is a Big Hit at Mr. Nick’s Corner Bar in Hibbing, Minnesota
We recently got a message on our Facebook page (http://facebook.com/gomadhops) from Andy Borchert of Hibbing, Minnesota. He and his friends had just sampled a Mad Hops Variety 6-Pack and had some really nice things to say about the products. I answered him back to say...
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5 Reasons Why You Should Invite Mad Hops to Your Super Bowl Party
1. Mad Hops turns drinking beer into a shared experience Beer goes better with friends; and drinking beer is a great social activity. In fact, according to the National Geographic, without beer human beings would never have formed advanced societies. Beer is healthier...
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After 3 years and 100s of tries, we got the right flavors to launch Mad Hops Flavored Beer Drops
My lightbulb moment came in January, 2014. I was working hard to build a hopyard on the family homestead in South Bristol, NY, attending hop growing seminars and watching as new breweries sprang up across the Finger Lakes region every month. It was just after the...
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Syracuse Post-Standard: Turn your cheap beer into a craft brew
Let’s say you crave a full-flavored, craft-brewed pale ale, but you only have the money to buy Pabst Blue Ribbon or Genny Cream Ale.
Peter Hanley has a solution for you. It’s called Mad Hops Flavored Brew Drops. You just squeeze a drop or two into your Utica Club or Labatt’s Blue, and, behold, it becomes something closer to, say, a Sierra Nevada Pale Ale (at a fraction of the cost).
What is the relationship between women and beer? It’s complicated…
Did you know that the story of women and beer is an ancient one? According to All About Beer Magazine, the story began in 1800 B.C., when brewing beer was part of a woman’s daily chores in ancient Sumerian and Egyptian societies. The relationship between beer and...
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Bring Mad Hops: It’s the Life of the Party
Taking Mad Hops when you go out is great way to not only spice up a boring party but meet new people. It is an instant conversation starter. When someone sees you changing the color of your beer, and they smell the blueberry or the apple or the chocolate and coffee...
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Canandaigua Daily Messenger: Mad Hops hits the shelves
SOUTH BRISTOL – Mad Hops Flavored Brew Drops – a product that transforms the taste, color and aroma of regular, everyday beer – is making its way into Christmas stockings. The product launched earlier this year by founder Peter Hanley of South Bristol is making a splash in sales after recently hitting the shelves at two local retailers.
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Having a New Year’s Eve Party? Be sure to invite Mad Hops!
Are you throwing a party to ring in 2017? Great! Whether it’s an intimate get together or an epic event, a little advance planning will ensure that everyone has a great time and your party goes as planned. First ask yourself: what’s your budget, how many people will...
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