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The annual Best in Beer issue of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine is out now, and in this special episode Managing Editor Joe Stange joins Jamie Bogner to discuss the editors' picks for Best 20 Beers of 2020, along with various reader survey results.

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Despite the challenges this year posed, we were able to taste thousands of beers over the past 12 months. Here are the very best of this unique (and unrepeatable) year.

• Best in Beer 2020
• Toppling Goliath
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You voted and we tallied—here are your favorite breweries broken down in categories by beer barrels brewed.

• Readers' Choice

Pink salt, a light touch of coriander, and Lactobacillus give this traditionally inspired German-style kettle sour a bright lemony flavor and refreshingly tart finish.

• Recipe

Sam Milne of Brick West Brewing in Spokane, Washington, dishes details on their method of brewing kettle-soured beer—such as their Get Right gose, one of our picks for Best in Beer 2020.

• Gose

These simple techniques will help you get more generations from your yeast through healthy fermentations that are good for your beer and your bottom line.

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You might like cold beer and cold pizza—but you might also be missing out on flavors and aromas. Greg Engert explains why proper serving temperature is key to getting the most pleasure out of beer.

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New York City’s Finback Brewery has developed a reputation for successful risk taking with unexpected, fun ingredients in everything from imperial stouts to IPAs.

• Podcast

Stan Hieronymus explains the creeping phenomenon of dry-hopped beers that seem to have minds of their own—and ways to keep them under control.

• Hops
• Hop Creep
• Diacetyl

For this foraged recipe that includes sassafras root, spruce tips, and oak bark, any number of yeasts can work—but we think Norwegian kveik is a great fit.

• Beer Recipe
• Field Beer
• Wheat Beer

This distinctively spicy folk ingredient has a long tradition of going into American drinks, including beer—though it comes with a few disclaimers. Ready to forage?

• Sassafras
• Special Ingredient
• Herbs

From breaking down flavor profiles to proper pouring, glassware, and caring for draft lines, Greg Engert of the Neighborhood Restaurant Group lays out his approach to world-class beer service in this full-length video for All Access subscribers.

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• Full Video
• Beer Service