BREWER'S PERSPECTIVE

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

Here, five gold medal–winning breweries share their top tips on shaping the perfect Bavarian-style helles.

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This recipe takes inspiration from the lighter, easier-drinking blonde ales that the Belgian Trappist monks brew largely for themselves—but you can have some, too.

Gene Wagoner of ISM and Nick Walker of Ology join Tim Sciascia and Nick Harris of Berkeley Yeast for this special episode that explores new research and evolving techniques for creating the right balance of thiols in hoppy beers.

Much of the attention often goes to bigger beers—such as the famed dubbels and tripels from Belgium’s monastery breweries—but don’t let that keep you from appreciating the smaller ales in life.

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In the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Goldfinger has built a strong national reputation for its lagers. This one is inspired by the German zoigl tradition but makes use of American ingredients, including corn and whole-leaf Mt. Hood hops.

This Nashville brewery’s Barrel-Aged Dyson Sphere stout earned a top score in our malt-focused Spring issue—evidence of the team’s nuanced approach to blending, using a variety of whiskey barrels and with numerous complex recipes designed for specific casks.

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Discover how Nagardo® integrates into modern nonalcoholic beer production to improve microbial stability, with additional promising applications emerging across RTDs, wine, and cider.