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We all get a bit lazy when it comes to brewing, and if you do fall into this category, it’s important to know whether your habit is harmless or whether you’re playing with fire.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

In Craft Beer & Brewing's Advanced all-grain methods video, you'll learn how to make better wort to produce better beer.

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• Brewing

What happens when a monstrous pumpkin ale is aged in fine fresh rum barrels? Rumpkin!

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Pumpkin Beer Recipe

Testing a container filled with whole leaf hops against late kettle hops additions.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

From wet-hopped beers to the freshest possible bottles offered to drinkers to the unquenchable desire to keep refining and keep showing drinkers a new side of hoppy beers, El Segundo Brewing has become L.A.’s premier IPA brewery.

• Beer Stories
• Craft Beer Scene
• Breakout Brewer

The robust porter is rich in history and flavor. It’s a great style for a beginner or a more advanced brewer who wants to ramp up his/her technical skills…and an excellent base beer to which to add flavor, to boot!

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

Based on available ingredients, the recipe for this wet-hops lager from Jack’s Abby in Framingham, Massachusetts, changes every year.

• Beer Recipe
• Lager Recipe
• All Grain Recipe

Here are five brewers’ odes to Pivo…and (when pressed) some of their other favorite hoppy lagers.

• Beer Stories
• Craft Beer Scene

Growing and maintaining a yeast colony, feeding yeast between brews, planning brew days to maximize yeast health.

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• Yeast

Learn the ins and outs of adding flavors to your beer. From coffee and spices to chiles and fruit, we'll teach you how to complement malt and hops with flavors that flagrantly violate the Reinheitsgebot.

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• Adding Flavors

In Craft Beer & Brewing's Introduction to Lagering video, you'll learn to create crisp, cold-conditioned lagers at home. WIth solid technical advice and temperature control tips, you'll have all the tools you need to brew lagers right the first time.

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• Lager

Come game day, you will love this classic dish, re-imagined with IPA as a key ingredient.

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food
• Appetizers