Editors' Picks: The Best 20 Beers in 2023.

Their breadth is equally impressive: Those beers span styles from barrel-aged stout to modern lager, hazy IPA, and now West Coast IPA, too. Still, it was in our blind tasting for this Best in Beer issue that the beer ultimately shone - despite our re-solve to not add more IPAs to our annual list, unless they absolutely forced the argument. Since then, New Image released another bottling - the same brew with more barrel time - and submitted it for our Best in Beer panel to consider (blindly, of course). The brewing techniques necessary to make great NA beers - whether it's alcohol removal, nonalcoholic fermentations, arrested fermentations, or something else - are evolving quickly, and brewers are beginning to find ways to accomplish the end goal while still producing what we prize: great-tasting beer. [Extracted from the article]