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Looking ahead to late-summer pawpaw picking: This strong ale recipe from Jackie O’s in Athens, Ohio, features a robust wheat base as a platform for the tiki-drink flavors of this unusual fruit.

• Beer Recipe
• Fruit Beer
• Wheat Beer

Last year was a roller coaster for most breweries, but especially for Seattle’s Good Society. COVID slammed their doors shut just weeks after opening. But they persevered—and won a gold medal at GABF, plus Small Brewpub of the Year honors. So, what’s next?

• Podcast

This tropical-flavored fruit from un-tropical places has a funny name and great potential for brewing some unusual fruited beers.

• Pawpaw
• Special Ingredient
• Fruit Beer

Cracking that barley kernel isn’t what it used to be. Today, brewers who want to dial in their grist and brew better, more efficient beer have a wide range of options. John M. Verive demystifies the increasingly complex options.

• Gearhead
• mills
• Malt

A guest-centric, cloud-based point-of-sale system can increase tabs, tips, and the bottom line for breweries of all sizes.

• Sponsored

Chris Colby explains a few key details of brewing the sugar wash for hard seltzer, including the questions of whether to adjust the pH, add wort, or add hops like some of the pros do.

• Video
• Video Tip

Courtesy of Kane Wille, head brewer at O’Connor Brewing in Norfolk, Virginia, this recipe for an imperial red IPA gets depth from layers of Proximity craft malts.

• Beer Recipe
• Imperial IPA
• Red IPA

We all know how profoundly the types of malt we use can change what we brew. Less obvious is how independent brewing is changing how barley itself is being grown—leading, eventually, to exciting new options for brewers.

• Farming
• Malt
• Barley

As growers look to meet demand from brewers, here‘s a look at how the most-grown hops in the Pacific Northwest have changed in recent years.

• Infographic
• Hops
• Hop Varieties

Whatever you want to call it, the West Coast–style red ale is different from other beers that try to capture it on their margins. If you’re not brewing these, you’re missing out.

• Beer Recipe
• Red Ale

Ghostfish Brewing started with an audacious goal: to brew compelling beer with grains that don’t contain gluten. Here, they share some of the core tenets of brewing with non-gluten grains.

• Podcast
• Gluten-free
• Brewing

MadeWest Brewing in Ventura, California, calls it a “light ale” or a “blonde ale.” Whatever you call it, it won gold at GABF in 2018 and silver in 2019. Aromatic hopping, cooler fermentation, and full attenuation are the keys to its super-crisp profile.

• Beer Recipe
• Blonde Ale
• Golden Ale