It's hot out. You need a good beer. We've got you covered. Plus:

• Bring back vintage: Watches, to be specific.
• Is the weather impacting your run times? Don't sweat it.

The Beers That 10 Pro Brewers Reach for on the Hottest Day of the Year

It’s a cliché, but there really is nothing quite as satisfying as an ice-cold beer on a hot summer day. Beer is an essential part of our summer social lives, maintaining a constant presence at activities like cookouts, ballgames and camping trips. But on those unbearably sweltering days when it’s too hot to do anything, when all you can do is park yourself in front of your AC unit and wait for the sun to go down, it’s an absolute godsend — a necessary source of refreshment that’ll both quench your thirst and take the edge off.

We have our own opinions about what summer beers you should be trying, but for the purposes of this article, we left it to the professionals.

Yesterday, we asked if you consider yourself an active runner. Here's what you said:

• 15% of you said you go on runs from time to time.
• 18% of you said you run for your own personal fulfillment.
• Another 18% of you said you've ran in several marathons.
• And almost half of you said you prefer other forms of exercise.

Bring Back These Vintage Watches, Please

There are instances in which we'd simply love to see a watch brought back one-for-one — or, at least nearly one-for-one. (To use a TAG Heuer example, the Skipper it made with HODINKEE in 2017, though technically a mashup of a “Skipper” and a Carrera “Dato,” looked and felt like a vintage watch.) There are brands that do indeed engage in this “vintage reissue” business to various degrees, and there are brands that do not.

But, a guy can dream — which is precisely what we plan on doing here: What follows is thus a short list of some of our all-time favorite vintage watches that we'd kill to see brought back from the dead in as faithful a manner as possible.

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How Much Should Warm Weather Impact Your Running Times?

Good runners are religious about their sport, and like any true believers, we’re wracked with periodical spats of guilt. When you don’t do your best (or just as bad, when it looks like you’re not doing your best), there is a compulsion to explain a slower time or justify a shorter distance: “Strava excuses,” they’re called.

As I’ve laced my running sneaks and persisted, Charlie Brown-like, through the last hot days of a yet another tremendously hot summer (June 2024 was the hottest June ever, and July was one of the hottest months in recorded history), it’s once again become clear to me there is a crucial difference between running with effort and running with expectations. - Tanner Garrity