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John Laffler, cofounder of Chicago’s Off Color Brewing, shares this recipe for their chicha-inspired ale brewed with purple corn and Schinus molle berries, aka pink peppercorns.

• Beer Recipe
• Chicha
• Traditional Beer

As today’s drinkers become more health-conscious and watch both carbohydrate and caloric intake, it becomes more and more important for craft brewers to deliver compelling and flavorful beers that fall within these drinkers' parameters. This episode focuses on how leading brands address the market, and how brewers can use familiar brewing techniques and ingredients to make better low-cal and low-carb beers.

• Podcast
• Sponsored

Discover how PCR testing can bring precision, flexibility, and operational efficiency to every stage—from raw materials to final product—of your brewery’s QC program.

• Sponsored

Forget the chewing and the spitting. The Americas’ most important indigenous beer is alive and well today, connecting old traditions with curious drinkers.

• Chicha

From owner and head brewer Rich Nuñez at Radicle Effect Brewerks in Rock Island, Illinois, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for the local cult favorite they release only twice per year—four kegs, and it’s done.

• Beer Recipe
• American Stout
• Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer

It’s hard to call classic PNW hops “trendy,” but at Portland, Oregon’s Grand Fir, Whitney Burnside is finding new ways to build modern IPAs with these familiar varieties, creating consistent base character in IPA before branching out with expressive top notes.

• Podcast

Learn how the VPA‑80 can-carrier applicator from Roberts PolyPro helps boost output, reduce downtime, and ease labor strain, all while improving sustainability and ROI.

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Roast us for it, if you must, but we won’t mince words: Garlic beer could be a breath of fresh air.

• Garlic
• Special Ingredient
• Garlic Stout

Hop water is the easiest win your brewery can claim this year—low lift, high margin, and full flavor. Here’s a scalable recipe and flexible flavor framework built for modern production. If you’re already using advanced hop products or terpenes, you’re almost there. This quick guide gives you the rest.

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• Abstrax Topic

Using information provided by brewers Stefanie and Helmut Bayer, we’ve pieced together a homebrew-scale recipe for the Franconian country lager at Brauerei-Gasthof Bayer in Theinheim.

• Beer Recipe
• Kellerbier
• Landbier

While modern brewers continue to push the creative envelope with their evolving takes on farmhouse beers, there is nothing quite like the old-fashioned Wallonian ales that inspired them in the first place.

• Style School
• Saison
• Farmhouse Ale

Has Gen Z stopped drinking? Has the craft-beer bubble finally burst? There’s a lot of sensationalism out there, so we turned to National Beer Wholesalers Association chief economist Lester Jones for a data-driven take on what’s real and what’s just vibes.

• Podcast