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With just a bit of tweaking, you can produce a range of session stouts that preserve the complexity and interest of their full-strength cousins. Josh Weikert shows you how to maintain body and flavor in a session stout.

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This riff on old ale relies on an extended 3-hour boil for kettle caramelization and color, a technique normally associated with Scottish ales.

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Have you used a polypin? It’s a flexible, low-cost cask-conditioning solution that will serve you well.

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American Pale Ale should be a beer that drinks easily and highlights its American hops flavors and aromas. Its closest analog isn’t IPA; it’s British Golden Ale, Americanized! Here’s how to brew a great one.

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• Make Your Best

This house IPA at Block 15 Brewing (Corvallis, Oregon) is packed with notes of citrus, dank pine, and papaya with just enough malt character to prop them up and bitterness to balance.

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For Melvin Brewing Cofounder Jeremy Tofte, Belgian-style beers played a formative role in his early life, but you’ll find only one of them in his dream 6-pack that leans heavily toward IPAs and imperial stouts.

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Today’s most creative craft brewers know how to select yeast strains that don’t just ferment maltose, but also dance alongside hops that are at once tropical, citrusy, earthy, piney, and floral.

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You could use a Vienna lager or a Pilsner for this recipe; both are firm enough to let the brightness of the beer shine through, but not so bitter that they overpower the sausage and herbs.

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In this 70 minute video, learn the ins and outs of developing your best beer from professional brewer Matt Czigler, Founder of Czig Meister Brewing and former Brewmaster at Kane Brewing.

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In the age of 100+ IBU beer, wild fermentation, and complex malt profiles, there’s something to be said for a beer with . . . well, none of that. Here’s a 6-pack of beers that—let’s be honest—we love because we grew up with them.

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Learn to diagnose, describe, and fix those pesky off flavors!

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Josh Weikert takes you on a tour through three stout-centric areas—balance, mouthfeel, flavor profile—and explores the finer points of stout recipe design to help you get as much out of your stouts as possible.

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