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With a new tasting room and a second location, Highland Park Brewery in Los Angeles can clearly follow two paths: the predictable, more controlled one of beers made in stainless with one yeast strain, and the other path—mixed-culture fermentation.

• Breakout Brewer
• Craft Beer Scene

Greg Koch, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Stone Brewing, joins Jamie Bogner for a conversation about their challenge in launching a brewery in a difficult market, their experience launching a distribution business, and much more.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

When a major storm comes ashore, brewers and brewery owners need to prepare for the worst. In the Carolinas, beer professionals have spent the past week preparing for the worst and the eventual aftermath.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Hurricane

Here's a recipe from Canada's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing: a bold red ale with big stone-fruit notes and a very dry finish.

• Beer Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain

Here are some tips to keeping the temperature of your homebrewed lager under control.

• Practical Advice
• Craft Beer Scene

Stress your yeast in different ways for more interesting characters in your spirits. Learn more about the distilling process in this video tip.

• Video

Kellerbier merges the best of British cask ale with German malts and hops in a unique lager style. It has an atypical flavor profile that, depending on your finishing steps, can represent itself as a kind of German ESB or a Continental IPA.

• Homebrewing
• Make Your Best
• Homebrew recipe

There’s a simple pleasure to this style that makes it a joy to drink, with the added bonus of being a beer that you can enjoy a full dimpled mug of and still follow the action on the pitch.

• Make Your Best
• Ordinary Bitter

Ales have long been a brewer’s playground. Lagers, the time-matured, technically difficult, were the other side of the coin. Now, lagers are being played with like ales. Is this tinkering a good thing, or are we about to jump the shark?

• Craft Beer Scene
• Brewers Perspectives
• Lager

Ricardo Petroni and Peter Oates talk about using mathematics to get the most out of hopping, the benefits and worries of "Line Life" and what they've learned from homebrewing and measured growth to help strengthen their business today.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

As an American brewer down under, Christopher Sidwa has been able to meld two brewing traditions and, in his book, “Brew A Batch: A Beginner’s Guide to Home-Brewed Beer,” he shares his insights and hopes to inspire a new generation of brewers.

• Homebrewing
• Beer Book
• Craft Beer Scene

Testing both your water quality and composition at your brewery site might dictate the kind of filtration equipment you might need. Plus, why measuring pH is so important, no matter the batch size you're making.

• Video
• English-style
• Bonn Place