Roughly 18 hours after winning gold for their helles—Wander Back Lager—cofounder and head brewer Brian Hink shares their keys to winning, from fresh and locally sourced craft malt to mash-out decoction and careful attention to pH throughout the process.
As Firestone Walker celebrates their 30th anniversary this year, we’ve teamed up to share stories around a theme they’re incredibly passionate about and proud of—the deep relationships they’ve built with hop growers, hop brokers, and hop-industry organizations.
Horus Aged Ales founder Kyle Harrop doesn’t drink coffee, but he loves to add it as a flavor component in his big barrel-aged stouts. In this clip from his video course, he explains his “tea bag” method to dial in contact time to get the flavor he wants.
Tart, light, and utterly quenching, a great Berliner weisse is the perfect summertime beer, and it can win the hearts and minds of stone-hearted skeptics. Best of all, it doesn’t need to be difficult to brew.
Beer lovers have long known that pairing food and beer can open minds and liven up a party in a way that wine can’t. Here’s some of the science on how and why—plus, tips for organizing an event that can win converts.
From Dan Wye, head of the Origins project at Fyne Ales in Cairndow, Scotland, here’s a recipe from one of his mixed-culture wine chimeras—containing no grapes, but with flavors inspired by sauvignon blanc wine from France’s Loire Valley.
In this sneak peek at our upcoming, hop-saturated Summer 2026 issue, we join executive editor Joe Stange for a trans-Pacific dive into XPA with Scotty Hargrave, the style’s progenitor, and student-turned-master Blake Masoner of Craft Coast Beer and Tacos.
Before investing in equipment, ask these four critical questions to ensure your brewery is set up for long-term growth, flexibility, and success.
In Scotland, Dan Wye of Fyne Ales is creating mixed-culture beers designed to mimic the flavor and texture of wine. By using foraged fruit, flowers, and herbs in his blends, he’s attempting to define a new style.
Maltose-negative yeast strains aren’t all the same. Most nonalcoholic yeast strains are undomesticated and lack the traits that brewers over the centuries have selected for. Learn how Berkeley Yeast’s strains are different.
Want to try your hand at brewing an uncarbonated ale with enough acidity to refresh and complexity to intrigue? Here’s a recipe from Austin’s Jester King for a lambic-inspired beer that’s ready to drink in just a few months.
A wave of intentionally uncarbonated beers and adjacent drinks is putting greater focus on how texture plays on our palates. Whether you’re going low- or no-fizz, here’s what fewer bubbles mean for the rest of your beverage.
From cereal-mashed rice and Riwaka in “Southern pilsner” to barrel-aged stout that’s a dead-ringer for a well-known cola, Tennessee’s Soul & Spirits takes a methodical approach to even the most outlandish ideas.
As a way to illustrate the methods that go into one of the world’s oldest surviving brewing traditions—including wind-dried malt, foraged hops, and a boiled mash—here’s a recipe for aludi, the farmhouse ale from Georgia’s highlands.
Among brewers who use it, coconut is notorious for soaking up liquid, destroying yield, and leaving behind an oily sheen... but people sure do seem to love the flavor. In this clip from his video course, Horus Aged Ales founder Kyle Harrop describes how he deploys this wonderfully flavorful but expensive and inefficient adjunct.
New for 2026, Rahr Malting Co. is introducing a new low-color pilsner malt, developed in collaboration with our friends at pFriem Family Brewers.
Despite the challenging headwinds in the beer market, Minnesota and Wisconsin's Indeed Brewing has found ways to grow distribution sales by using data to make better decisions. This conversation, produced in partnership with Encompass, looks at the systems and processes they've put in place over the past few years to fuel that growth.
In the mountains of eastern Georgia, a rare type of farmhouse beer represents a centuries-old tradition that survives.
The helles that won gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup was a collaboration between Cinder Block of Kansas City, Missouri, and Blind Tiger of Topeka, Kansas. The objective? To craft a high-quality helles without a traditional decoction mash.
Colorado’s Prost is no stranger to medal-winning lager. Despite that success, the team went back to the drawing board six months ago, rebuilding its pale lagers with Augustiner yeast and a totally different approach to fermentation.
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