The team at Cannonball Creek in Golden, Colorado, wants its award-winning West Coast–style IPAs and pale ales to pour bright and clear. In this clip from his video course, cofounder and brewer Brian Hutchinson explains their method for finishing and clarifying before service at the brewpub.
Kevin Kowalski, head brewer at CLAG in Sandusky, Ohio, shares this recipe for an easier-drinking hazy IPA—previously known as Lite—nonetheless packed with hop character driven especially by Citra and Motueka hops.
It’s not your imagination: Hazy IPA tastes better than ever. Today's brewers, by sharing ideas and taking advantage of the best hops and other ingredients they can find, are continuing to innovate and push the style into increasingly flavorful—and increasingly drinkable—territory.
From our Love Handles files on the world’s best places to grab an interesting beer: In Panaji, Goa, this beloved local tavern offers thick layers of atmosphere around local craft bottles and cocktails made from feni, the traditional Goan spirit.
In this panel discussion from the 2026 Brewers Retreat, Kevin Smith of Bale Breaker, Zach Turner of Single Hill, and Vinnie Cilurzo of Russian River explore fresh-hop brewing from the early days of craft through the present.
From the Big Friendly in Oklahoma City, here’s a recipe for the dry-hopped, Brett-fermented saison that won gold at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival.
The Big Friendly in Oklahoma City has won nine Great American Beer Festival medals for its beers over the past four years, including six gold medals. Key to that success has been the team’s thoughtful, patient approach to dry-hopped, oak-aged, mixed-culture saisons.
This honey ESB makes for a fun ride on the palate: Between the ample crystal malts, the honey flavors—buckwheat is rich and spicy—and yeast, you end up with a lot of candy, strawberry, earthy, spicy, and malty flavors.
Highly fermentable yet often quite flavorful, with many types available, honey is the queen bee of alternative sugars in the brewhouse. So, let’s ponder how it can shine in conjunction with a particular base style—in this case, an ESB.
In this 500th episode of the podcast, Henry Nguyen of Monkish, Sam Zermeño of Brujos, and Kelsey McNair of North Park join in a live discussion on hazy IPA recorded at our recent Brewer’s Retreat.
This is Part II of a two-part series on the hottest tech trends in brewing. If you haven’t done so already, read Part I for our take on why breweries thriving in 2027 won’t necessarily brew the best IPA or win the most medals. Then read on for more tech trends in brewing.
Brewers who dry hop their beers today need to be aware of hop creep and its tendency to produce diacetyl and related off-flavors. Here, cofounder and brewer Brian Hutchinson explains how Cannonball Creek circumvents it in their pale ales and IPAs.
The next popular tastes can be difficult to predict, but there are ideas out there aplenty—and, in choosing, it helps to understand the longer arc of craft beer and our wider cultural context.
Sam Richardson discovered the beers that would inspire him most before he became a brewer, and he did so across the country from where he would later cofound Other Half in Brooklyn, New York. These often were intense and flavorful beers that defied easy categorization, and they marked enjoyable times of discovery with good friends. As told to Jamie Bogner.
This session-strength, English-inspired porter won a gold medal and Best American Beer at the 2024 Brussels Beer Challenge.
This extra pale ale is a crowd favorite at Craft Coast Beer & Tacos in San Diego’s North County. It’s also found success at the highest levels of competition, winning two straight World Beer Cup medals—bronze in 2024, then silver in 2025, in the Australian-Style Pale Ale category.
This growing New Hampshire brewery in the epicenter of hazy IPA, just across the border from Massachusetts, pushes malt and boundaries to achieve vivid results in hop-forward beers and tight balance in Mexican-style lager.
Breweries thriving in 2027 won’t necessarily brew the best IPA or win the most medals. They’ll make the smartest decisions—faster, with better data, and more connected systems.
Denver’s River North is winning international awards and a strong reputation for its deep, dark, malt-forward beers. Here, owner Matt Hess and head brewer Matt Malloy share the thinking and process behind them. As told to Ryan Pachmayer.
“The aim here is to make a ripping XPA that combines plenty of saturated modern hop characters—thanks in part to the multiple small kettle-hop additions—with a lean but structured malt base,” says Scotty Hargrave, the progenitor of modern XPA.
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