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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

In Bavaria’s lager-loving Franconian region, the Bayer family’s Theinheim Landbier is integral to their tradition of local hospitality.

• Ask the Pros
• Landbier
• Franconia

From Accra’s Heritage Brewing, Ghana’s first modern brewpub, comes this recipe for their flagship lager—technically an ale, but cleanly fermented—featuring local maize and cassava as the bulk of its fermentables.

• Beer Recipe
• Pale Lager
• Experimental Beer

Navigate hop application with confidence–optimize flavor and efficiency with Yakima Chief Hops’ product usage matrix.

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It’s not always a simple process, but independent brewers in Ghana are favoring locally grown starches such as rice and cassava over imported malt, forging an identity for Ghanaian craft—oh, and they’re winning international medals for the beer.

• Ghana
• Local Grains
• Cassava

Brewing a helles is a worthy challenge. If your process is consistent and your ingredients fresh, you can make this beer sing on command.

• Beer Recipe
• Helles
• Pale Lager