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Recipe: Peaceful Side Solveza Mexican-Style LagerBy Seth Carter“Brewed as an ode to the sun,” this light, crisp, subtly sweet Mexican-inspired lager from Peaceful Side in Maryville, Tennessee, won the gold medal for International Light Lager at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
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Brewer’s Perspective: Brewing Mexican-Style Tennessee Lager at Peaceful SideBy Seth CarterSeth Carter, head brewer at Peaceful Side in Maryville, Tennessee, cites the key factors that helped their Solveza lager win gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup—and it begins with a team-wide approach to quality.
Make Your Best American Strong AleBy Josh WeikertThis celebration of malt and American hops is one that should evolve nicely as the weeks pass, the bitterness rounds, and malt comes into the fore.
Recipe: Peoples BockBased on details shared by the former lead brewer at Peoples Brewing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this mid-20th century American bock gets its color from a darker caramel Munich malt—not from the syrups that were common in dark adjunct lagers from that time.
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Podcast Episode 457: Cory Buenning of Fritz Family Focuses on Highly Attenuated Lagers with Perfect ProteinsBy Jamie BognerThe seven-barrel brewhouse at Fritz Family in Niwot, Colorado, may be be small by typical lager-brewing standards. But founder Cory Buenning takes an exacting approach to the lagers he brews for the cuckoo clock–lined taproom, focusing on malt that produces mid-sized proteins that build body.
Recipe: Bluejacket Common PeopleThis modern take on a Kentucky common comes from a collaboration between Bluejacket and DC Beer, a website that’s been covering the Washington, D.C., beer scene for more than a decade.
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Recipe: Cloudburst Peaked in High SchoolBy Steve LukeFrom Cloudburst founder-brewer Steve Luke, here’s a homebrew recipe for the West Coast double red that won gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
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Your Low-Lift Key to Hop Water and NA SuccessHop waters and NA beverages aren’t a compromise; they’re a new creative playground. Water-soluble hop aroma products such as LLZ™, SalvoPlus™, and Hop Oils make it easier than ever to create flavorful, hop-inspired drinks that appeal to both traditional beer lovers and health-conscious consumers. Here, we want to show you just how easy it is to create scalable, low-lift, high-return recipes with applicable pricing.
Ask the Pros: Brewing Strong Red Liquid Nostalgia with CloudburstIn 2025, Seattle’s Cloudburst won World Beer Cup gold in the Strong Red Ale category for its throwback West Coast double red, Peaked in High School. Here, founder-brewer Steve Luke opens his yearbook to share the details.
Recipe: Good Word Riding Bikes in Munich HellesOn his two-vessel brewhouse in Duluth, Georgia, Good Word owner-brewer Todd DiMatteo hand-lugs buckets full of mash to make his decoction happen for their house helles—a process that he says is worth the effort.
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Podcast Episode 456: Jaron Anderson of Helper Beer Applies Modern Techniques to Classic Styles with Winning ResultsBy Jamie BognerFor Helper Beer, 2025 was a great year, with a gold medal for German-style pils at GABF and a Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer editors’ pick trophy for Regis helles. But the methods they use for these classical styles—such as cool pooling with heavy whirlpool hop loads—are anything but stuck in the past.
Recipe: Oxbow Pastoral SaisonBy Anne GrybkoThere are many interpretations of modern saison. This one, from Oxbow in Newcastle, Maine, features local grains and multiple strains of yeast and bacteria—gently tart and funky, and highly drinkable.