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From 2nd Shift Brewing in St. Louis, this brightly flavored, easygoing hazy IPA—which crushed it in our blind panel reviews—gets its fruit character from citrus-forward hops and a hefty dose of tangerine peel.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• Fruit Beer

In this clip from his video course on how to brew traditional Bavarian-style weissbier, Bluejacket head brewer Ro Guenzel explains the monikers and origins of the style.

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• Weissbier

Hops can smell like other foods because they share many of the same aroma compounds. Here is Randy Mosher on how to boost your IPAs with ingredients that have those sought-after traits.

• IPA
• Fruit Beer
• Spiced Beer

This recipe is a great introduction to kettle sours. A mild, refreshing mint addition complements the fruit and acidity.

• Fruit Beer
• Extract Recipe
• Beer Recipe

In further exploring how to squeeze the most character out of extract brewing, Jester Goldman turns his attention to kettle sours.

• Quick Souring
• Kettle Sours
• Extract

From West Coast-style IPA to hazy triple IPA and barrel-aged rye barleywine, Robbings discusses how Reuben’s have gone about brewing their more celebrated beers in this challenging year.

• Podcast

A mash filter can increase brewhouse efficiency greatly, giving brewers much more room to get more creative with their recipes. Here, we sat down with Brouwerij West to learn more.

• Gearhead
• Mash Filter Press
• Mash Filter

Courtesy of the Berlin-based BRLO brewery and Atlanta-based hip-hop group Run the Jewels, here is a homebrew-scale recipe for their unusual collab: a CBD-hemp-infused hoppy pilsner.

• Pilsner
• Beer Recipe

We asked for your favorite hops and malts you like to use for brewing, and you told us. Here are your 2020 Readers’ Choice picks for favorite ingredients.

• Best in Beer 2020
• Ingredients
• Hops

Verboten Brewing & Barrel Project of Loveland, Colorado, has won multiple medals for its barrel-aged stouts and barleywines. It’s the intention behind the beer design—and the recipes built specifically for long-term aging—that make all the difference.

• Podcast
• Brewing
• Barleywine

Commercial brewers are in the earliest days of figuring out how to legally get CBD into beer (and keep it there). For homebrewers, it presents an open—if legally vague—field of play and experimentation.

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• THC

Ro Guenzel, head brewer of Bluejacket in Washington, DC, has a special love for authentic, Bavarian-style weissbier. In this video course, he tackles the history of the style, traditional brewing methods, food pairings, and much more.

• Video
• Full Video
• Weissbier