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For this final bonus episode of 2022, we look back at the 10 most-listened-to podcasts of the year, with salient highlights that capture the most memorable and most useful moments of your favorite podcasts.

• Best of 2022
• Podcast

In St. Louis, a city spoiled by acclaimed imperial stouts, Bluewood has raised eyebrows with a few that reach heights up to 22 percent ABV. Brewer and cofounder Cam Lund explains their approach, detailing their chaptalization-like process for kicking up the strength of a few rare beasts.

• High Gravity
• Chaptalization
• Imperial Stout

From Josh Weikert’s Make Your Best series, this is a great recipe for establishing your baseline witbier.

• Beer Recipe
• Witbier
• Wheat Beer

You voted on your favorite styles in our annual Readers’ Choice poll, and while IPA continues to top the charts, lagers made steady and significant gains in 2022.

• Beer Styles
• Best in Beer

Beer offers all kinds of once-in-a-lifetime experiences, from drinking the rarest beers to attending festivals at all corners of the Earth. Beth Demmon asked five pros what’s on top of their beer-bucket lists. What’s on yours?

This recipe for a dark, spiced holiday ale is ideal for serving either cool or warmed and mulled, with many more variations possible on fruits and spices.

• Beer Recipe
• Winter Beer
• Wassail

In recent years, brewers have been packing more and more fruit into their fruited beers, often evoking familiar and festive desserts. Now, let’s complete the circle and put a splash of that beer into this cobbler, ideal for sharing over the holidays.

• Cooking with Beer
• Cobbler
• Cranberry

This Atlanta brewery produces an array of lagers that explore the flavors of Noble hops, while also pushing for focused expression in their Belgian-style beers.

• Podcast
• Lager
• Belgian Pale Ale

While Atlanta’s Three Taverns started as a brewery focused on Belgian styles, they’ve taken that same fearless approach to ingredients and processes, along with a determination to make balanced and drinkable beers, and they’ve applied those principles to everything from new-school pils to hazy IPA.

• Podcast
• Pilsner
• Hoppy Lager

What the Noël? Hot fruit beers for the holidays? It’s not as weird as it sounds. As the days get cold, Annie Johnson explains how to keep warm by getting punchy.

• Fruit Beer
• Extract Brewing
• Mulled Ale

Courtesy of Carol Pak at Sool, here is a homebrew version of their lighter makgeolli recipe using glutinous (sticky) rice.

• Beer Recipe
• Rice Beer
• Makgeolli

In Korea, a new generation has revived a folk drink made from rice and mixed-culture fermentation. Now, two small-batch producers are making makgeolli on American shores, celebrating their heritage while introducing many more to its depth of flavors.

• Makgeolli
• Rice Beer
• Rice Wine