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Infographic: How and Where Do People Like to Buy Beer?Based on data from the beverage delivery app Drizly, here is a look at how and where people are choosing their beer and other alcoholic drinks.
Video Tip: Home Is Where You Hang Your Hose AtBy Steve CriderPoorly stored hoses are a sanitation risk. In this video tip, 2nd Shift founder-brewer-handyman Steve Crider shares his unusual method for making sure they're kept high and dry.
Recipe: Cape May Imperial StoutBrewed with a massive and complex grain bill, this beer is for those moments of excess in your life.
A Perfect Match: Nitro and StoutBy Brian HinkBrian Hink, the innovation director at Cape May Brewing in Cape May, New Jersey, weighs in on the diversity and importance of nitrogenation when it comes to stouts and other styles.
Recipe: Pike Kilt Lifter Scotch AleBy Pike BrewingHere is a homebrew-scale recipe for Kilt Lifter, a versatile, ruby-amber, richly malted ale with notes of caramel, toffee, and just a whisper of peat smoke—and the top-seller at Pike Brewing in Seattle, Washington.
Learning Lab: Standard Hops AdditionsHops for bitterness, flavor, and aroma... and, often, three corresponding additions to the boil. Using one-gallon test batches hopped differently, let's test our assumptions.
Podcast Episode 119: John Mallett of Bell's Brewery on Ingredient Quality, Understanding Malt, and Designing Brewery WorkflowsBy Jamie BognerJohn Mallett, VP of operations for Bell's, is one of the most respected technical brewers in the industry. Here, he discusses everything from sourcing and evaluating ingredients to maintaining haze in beer and engineering a brewhouse workflow.
Video Tip: Fix a Broken Pump, Save Money for BrewingBy Steve CriderSteve Crider, founder-brewer-handyman at 2nd Shift in St. Louis, explains the value of knowing how to fix your own broken pumps.
Recipe: Bow & Arrow Denim Tux Blue Corn LagerFrom Bow & Arrow Brewing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this German-American pilsner hybrid has a Southwestern twist.
Yo, These Stouts Are Bananas (A Brewer's Perspective)One recent trend in the long evolution of stout is the addition of unconventional fruit to finished beer. In El Segundo, California, Three Chiefs has released several tropical-fruited stouts to great acclaim. Here, Head Brewer Charles Rapadas gets bananas.
Recipe: Overseas StoutBy Drew BeechumThis is a beer that will make you want to hit the high seas, now with 100 percent less empire-building.
Hiding in the Middle: The Tradition of Foreign Export StoutBy Drew BeechumWhether African, Caribbean, or Belgian, foreign export stouts occupy the oft-overlooked middle ground between the smooth lows of dry Irish stout and the highs of alcoholic exuberance.