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This traditional, spontaneously fermented sorghum beer is like nothing else you’ve ever tasted—thick, tangy, rustic, and meant for drinking within a few days.

• Beer Recipe
• Traditional Beer

This rye riff on the classic American IPA is plenty hop-forward but with a more substantial grist than most. Rye’s an excellent ingredient that pairs beautifully with bright, clean hop flavors.

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• IPA
• Rye IPA

Trial and error led to a winning combo of grist and hop bill in this recipe, and the result is a fun and interesting rye rewind on the ubiquitous IPA.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• American IPA

Whether it’s flipping a session-strength porter between ale and lager fermentation, or moving hops from the whirlpool to the dry hop in hazy IPAs, there’s not much that the head brewer for Phoenix’s Wren House won’t change. Just don’t ask him to alter more than one variable at a time—and don’t mess with his chocolate rye!

• Podcast

Standard cold chain shipping has its flaws. Learn how Pallet Parka saves breweries up to 50 percent on cold chain shipping costs as a sustainable packaging solution.

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Jan Chodkowski, co-owner and head brewer at Denver’s Our Mutual Friend, describes the rustic malting process and brewing considerations behind strong, intensely smoky Stjørdalsøl—a Norwegian farmhouse style that they brew once per year.

• Video
• Video Tip

It’s time to tap into the American Homebrewers Association!

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We know that we can get better at smelling and tasting beer, but how does it work? From Tasting Beer author and sensory guru Randy Mosher, here are some insights to help us identify and better understand our own strengths and weaknesses.

• Flavor Fever
• Beer Evaluation
• Beer Sensory

Here's a sandwich fit for sturdy trestle tables and seasonal festivals, featuring a smoked-trout salad that gets a splash of märzen or festbier. Guten appetit!

• Sandwiches
• Cooking with Beer
• Smoked Trout

From 12 West Brewing in Gilbert, Arizona, here’s a recipe for their Citra-Mosaic lager that scored a 98 with our blind-review panel and went on to become one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.

• Beer Recipe
• West Coast Pils
• Hoppy Lager

Arizona’s 12 West racked up the honors from Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine last year, including a score of 98 for their Radial Spines West Coast–style pils and a nod as one of our Best 20 Beers of 2023. In this episode, head brewer Justin “Gully” Gullickson and assistant brewer Andrew Cooper outline the design and process behind that beer as well as their high-scoring IPAs.

• Podcast
• West Coast PIls
• Gummi Sharks

This is the recipe for one of several rotating porters that North Carolina’s Incendiary likes to make and keep on tap for its customers—but this is the one that took home gold from the 2023 World Beer Cup.

• Beer Recipe
• Porter
• Brown Porter