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Is it the hop variety that matters most? Or when it’s picked? The soil it’s grown in? How it’s fertilized and irrigated throughout a season? Or something else? These two preeminent researchers—one from the States, one from New Zealand—debate the relative impacts of various factors on hop flavor and aroma.

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In this clip from their webinar, Breakside brewmaster Ben Edmunds and experts from Berkeley Yeast discuss how the fermentation flavors from maltose-negative yeast strains help make nonalcoholic beers that don’t taste like NA.

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The finished beer should be light on the palate yet offer plenty of rich biscuit and toffee flavors with some herbal-earthy hops. This is an excellent beginner style, as simple to brew as it is enjoyable to drink.

• Beer Recipe
• Mild Ale
• Pale Mild

You’ve brewed the perfect beer, but what happens if it’s poured through a dirty draft line? Off-flavors, funky smells, ruined reputations. Though tedious, draft-line cleaning is the crucial final step to ensure every pint tastes as intended. Michele Wonder of Perfect Pour Services offers some expert tips on how to keep your lines spotless, your beer delicious, and your customers coming back for more.

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Hard to find and historically interesting? Easy to drink and straightforward to brew? Sounds like the perfect style to tackle at home—or a nice one to grab some interest in the taproom, with its quick turnaround and quantity appeal.

• Make Your Best
• Beer Recipe
• Pale Mild

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: In south St. Louis, this small pub focuses on bottom-fermented beauties, from perfect Czech-style pours to ice-cold High Life.

• Love Handles

The founder and head brewer for Garage Project in Wellington, New Zealand, is tackling more than just brewing these days. Garage Project’s team is breaking the fourth wall, investing in the Hāpi Research partnership with hop grower Freestyle—all for the sake of deeper hop flavor.

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The brewmaster at Cleveland’s Fat Head’s—best known for their award-winning IPAs—shares a six-pack inspired by German and Belgian brewing traditions, with beers that speak to flavor, technique, and the experiences that have shaped his own approach to brewing.

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If you’re looking to up your lager game, you’ve come to the right place. Here are five tips that will help you brew your best lager yet.

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From their state-of-the-art production brewery in Northglenn, Colorado, this Bavarian-style weissbier remains one of the most popular beers in Prost’s beer gardens.

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• All Access Recipe
• Hefeweizen

Topher Boehm, cofounder and brewer at Wildflower in Marrickville, Australia, shares this recipe for their low-strength yet satisfying ale—an ideal framework for conveying a sense of place via local malt and a foraged house fermentation culture.

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• Saison
• Farmhouse Ale

With local malt and a mixed fermentation culture foraged and harvested from native Australian flowers, Wildflower is focused on producing satisfying table beers with a true sense of place. Cofounder and brewer Topher Boehm explains their approach.

• Table Beer
• Mixed Fermentation
• Mixed-Culture Fermentation