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Josh Weikert takes you on a rapid-fire journey through a range of spices and herbs that enhance, augment, imitate, and/or intensify both traditional beer flavors and beer-adjacent flavors that you might want to work into your recipes.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Spice Beer

Gabe Gordon, founder of Beachwood BBQ and Brewing built the Blendery with the single-minded focus to re-create a true lambic-style beer in Southern California, and at the center of the effort is one critical piece of the lambic puzzle: the coolship.

• Gearhead
• Craft Beer Scene
• Coolship

With a respect for style guidelines, Holy City Brewing’s Chris Brown produces some traditional beers, but as the brewery has grown, he’s loosened up, creating award-winning boundary-pushing beers to complement the food scene in Charleston, South Carolina.

• Breakout Brewer
• Craft Beer Scene

WeldWerks Founder/Brewmaster Neil Fisher takes you step-by-step through the adjuncts they use to brew variants of their 2017 GABF gold medal winning Medianoche stout, fruited sours, “pastry” stouts, and very popular New England-style India Pale Ales.

• Video
• Full Video
• Adjunct

The guidelines tell us that as Bieres de Garde move toward the darker end of the spectrum, the malt complexity and intensity increase, and hops receded.

• Biere de Garde
• Make Your Best
• All Grain Recipe

The skulls, candles, and pentagrams behind the taproom bar at TRVE Brewing in Denver tell you that it’s not just your average neighborhood craft brewery.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

A brewing program in Philadelphia has come across a wild yeast that not only flocculates clear but also naturally produces lactic acid. Is GY7B the next big thing for sour beer?

• Craft Beer Scene
• Yeast

This beer is much more about process than ingredients, so don’t let the simplicity of it fool you.

• All Grain Recipe
• Light Lager
• Homebrew Recipe

This Double IPA with 'expressive yeast' is one of Alvarado Street Brewery’s most popular beers.

• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Beer Recipe

Biere de Garde (BdG) enjoys more flexibility than most, as a style. Not only do the component style descriptors give ranges (as they do for most styles), it also allows for three distinct (uncredited) substyles based on color: blonde, amber, and brown.

• Make Your Best
• Biere de Garde
• All Grain Recipe

Rain? Wind? If you do face down the adversity of nature’s challenges on an outdoor homebrew day, remember to reward yourself for your efforts. Jester Goldman recommends a refreshing homebrew.

• Homebrewing

What's it like recording a podcast in the middle of a brew day? Tune in to hear Senior Editor John Holl talk with Bonn Place Brewing's Sam Masotto. They talk about customer service, engaging consumers on social media, and simple yet flavorful beer styles.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene