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The team at Revolution in Chicago blends two threads of barrel-aged barleywine to produce their heralded Straight Jacket. Here’s a recipe for one of those threads, plus all the info you need to make the other one—or to make an unblended version.

• Beer Recipe
• Barleywine
• Barrel-Aged

Grab a coffee and check out an insider perspective on the Craft Brewers Conference from veteran chief revenue officer Dan Reese. He covers the surprising collaborations transforming the industry and reveals the strategic moves that separate survivors from casualties. The industry’s evolution is happening now—are you prepared?

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• CBC
• Craft Brewers Conference

Learn how different grades of filters stack up in various American Society of Brewing Chemists (ASBC) methods to ensure the consistency and safety of your beer. Key tests include removing turbidity from wort, removing carbon dioxide from finished beer, and removing yeast cells after fermentation, as well as microbiological testing using membrane filters to detect spoilage organisms.

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• Quality Control

The world’s best oak-aged beers begin with careful hot-side considerations. Here’s how some of today’s leading brewers design stouts and barleywines to maximize success inside the barrel, and beyond.

• Barrel-Aging
• Oak-Aging
• Imperial Stout

For a simple yet impressive springtime meal: These noshable, sweet-savory quail halves marinated in porter and molasses meet for lunch with some mixed greens drizzled in bock vinaigrette.

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food
• Dinner

The small brewery about an hour outside of Indianapolis strikes a cool and edgy pose in its tiny town surrounded by agricultural fields, but the nuance and polish of their beer has found fans across the state (and amongst our magazine’s blind judging panel).

• Podcast

How John I. Haas is minimizing variability and maximizing consistency with Sensory Plus™.

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• Hops

From award-winning homebrewer Annie Johnson, this partial-mash recipe for a lightweight porter—at 3.5 percent ABV—demonstrates how you can pack plenty of malt flavor into a low-strength beer.

• Beer Recipe
• Porter
• English-Style Porter

Brewers already navigating fast-changing market conditions are now struggling just to track down ingredients. Sourcing malt, hops, and yeast locally can make all the difference in building a stable, transparent supply chain.

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• Malt

Rich in malt flavor yet light in strength and easy to drink, lower-ABV stouts, porters, and other dark beers represent a wide-open playground for brewers at any level.

• Malt
• Stout
• Porter

Kevin Ely, brewer and cofounder of the Wooly Pig Farm Brewery in Fresno, Ohio, shares this recipe for his unfiltered German-style pilsner—light, fresh, floral, and subtly malty, with a moderate bitterness. Plus: See the notes for why he prefers an unusually thin mash for this beer.

• Beer Recipe
• All Access Recipe
• Keller-Pils

What do changes in the beer market and drinking habits portend for one of the most creative and influential beer-producing countries? These data points from the Belgian Brewers industry group provide an eye-opening glimpse.

• Infographic
• Belgian Beer