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The 2019 list of James Beard Award semifinalists includes five brewing-industry professionals, highlighting the important role the beverage plays in dining today

• Craft Beer Scene
• James Beard
• Allagash

Zac Harris of Eurisko Beer Co. talks about how to best employ a mash rest while homebrewing and how similar results are achieved on a commercial brewing scale.

• Video
• Mash
• German

Time takes its toll on everything, and barrels are no exceptions. Brewers can take a few precautionary steps to make sure that once a barrel is filled, it doesn’t leak. Brandon Jones of Embrace the Funk website and Yazoo Brewing Company offers these tips.

• Barrels
• Wood
• Homebrewing

Cured pork is not just for breakfast any more. Try adding a bit of comforting umami and smoke to your next brew with these tips.

• Special Ingredient
• Craft Beer Scene
• Brown Ale

For Fermentery & Blendery Form, it took more than a decade to open their doors, and some of the beer they have aging now might not be ready for another ten years. This Philadelphia spot shows us all why it’s okay to let the beer reveal when it’s ready.

• Breakout Brewer
• Blending
• Form

Test out your Sous Vide homebrewing skills with this recipe, which calls for just a 30-minute boil in an effort to save time.

• Sous Vide
• Hombrewing
• Extract Recipe

Homebrew expert Brad Smith, author of the Beersmith homebrewing software and the voice behind the Beersmith podcast, tackles a question about head retention on your beer.

• Ask the Experts
• Foam
• Head Retention

Tucked away in an industrial corner of Brooklyn, New York’s Other Half Brewing has become known as a leader of the brewing new-school with intensely flavorful and creative beers that crowds turn out for on a weekly basis.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene
• Other Half

In this 48-minute video, Eurisko Beer Co. Founder and German-trained brewer Zac Harris covers the fundamentals of German-style brewing, how it differs from brewing in the U.S., and offers specific style examples to help you make better beer.

• Video
• Full Video
• Homebrew

These recipes accompany the Eurisko Beer Co. video on 'Fundamentals of German-Style Beers.'

• Beer Recipe
• Helles
• Doppelbock

Running a brewery is hard work. It takes a variety of different factors to be successful in this industry, and missing just one crucial piece of the puzzle can lead to bankruptcy, lawsuits, or worse.

• Brewery
• Sponsored

If you’re put off by long all-grain brew days and yearn for a faster and simpler way to make beer, Art Whitaker offers expertise and tips to get you started extract brewing with a sous vide machine.

• Simple Brewing
• Sous Vide
• Homebrewing