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Brewed with a massive and complex grain bill, this beer is for those moments of excess in your life.

• Beer Recipe
• Imperial Stout

Brian 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.

• Nitro
• Stout
• Brewer's Perspective

Here 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.

• Beer Recipe
• Scotch Ale
• Scottish Ale

Hops 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.

• Learning Lab
• Hops
• Bitterness

John 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.

• Podcast
• Bell's Brewery
• Two Hearted

Steve Crider, founder-brewer-handyman at 2nd Shift in St. Louis, explains the value of knowing how to fix your own broken pumps.

• Video
• 2nd Shift
• Repairs

From Bow & Arrow Brewing in Albuquerque, New Mexico, this German-American pilsner hybrid has a Southwestern twist.

• Beer Recipe
• Lager
• Pilsner

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.

• Bananas
• Stout
• Brewer's Perspective

This is a beer that will make you want to hit the high seas, now with 100 percent less empire-building.

• Stout
• Foreign Export Stout
• Beer Recipe

Whether 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.

• Stout
• Foreign Export Stout
• Ireland

Arney discusses the choices and systems he created, to take what he learned from large-scale production brewing and apply it to this grounded, intentionally small approach to brewing.

• Podcast
• Sour beer
• Natural Brewing

Steve Crider, founder-brewer-handyman at 2nd Shift Brewing in St. Louis, shares his know-how on keeping a brewery running—and what to do when things break down.

• Video
• Full Video
• Fix Your Brewery