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Just how much impact can malt make in märzen? Moontown’s contrasting approach with different malt sources for two of their top award-winners offers a glimpse into the flavor possibilities and the process tweaks that each require.

• Podcast

Over the years, this recipe has gotten a bit darker and a bit lighter in body, but the goal is the same: to shape an IPA that is distinct from stylistic “neighbors” such as American brown ale.

• Beer Recipe
• American IPA
• Brown IPA

This hop-forward yet malt-backed niche IPA style has gone from rare to nearly extinct over the years—all the more reason to take a stab at its unusual balance while brewing something that the others aren’t.

• Make Your Best
• Brown IPA

Whether you're brewing full-strength IPAs, non-alcoholic beers, or hop waters, you'll gain practical insights into how to apply terpene science in real-world production.

• Video
• Sponsored
• Webinar

Running a modern taproom takes more than great beer. From data-driven staffing to flexible service models, here are five ways breweries are rethinking their playbook—and finding bigger wins behind the bar.

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• Taproom Strategies

From our Love Handles files on the world's top beer bars: In Brisbane, Australia, this beer café and bottle shop offers Belgian-inspired fare and atmosphere with a wide range of locally focused drafts, cans, and bottles.

• Love Handles

Whether he’s bittering with early-pick Columbus, dropping a hefty dose of CO2-extracted Simcoe at five minutes alongside T-90s, or knocking out onto flowable hop products, Shaun Kalis of Ruse has found that the key to long-lasting flavor and aroma in West Coast IPA is to include a little something old with a little something new.

• Podcast

The results of a scientific study showcase how Berkeley Yeast’s strains, which were specifically bioengineered to produce NA beer, deliver flavors that consumers often seek in modern craft-beer styles.

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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

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