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From Kelly Montgomery and his team at Third Eye Brewing in Cincinnati, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for a full-bodied stout from their medal-winning program. Lil Astral features oats, lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

• Beer Recipe
• Milk Stout
• Sweet Stout

Drawn to the challenges of complex fermentations, this microbiology major and VLB-trained brewer continues to apply the lesson’s he’s learned about yeast selection, hop load, acidification, Brett acclimation, and more—lessons that could be valuable to any brewer working with mixed cultures.

• Podcast

From Marble Beers in Manchester, England, here’s what head of production Joe Ince describes as “a lighter, hoppier bitter, northern in style.”

• Beer Recipe
• Bitter
• Pale Ale

Brewing a tasty nonalcoholic beer is dramatically different from brewing one of normal strength—but this recipe provides a great jumping-off point for making something pleasurably hoppy but without the alcohol.

• Sponsored
• Berkeley NA
• NA

Drinkers who are familiar with American light lager will be impressed by this crisp nonalcoholic version. Even more amazing, nonalcoholic beer production’s shortened fermentation can move this “lager” from grain to glass in as little as one week.

• Sponsored
• Berkeley NA
• NA Recipe

Former Kona and Cellarmaker brewmasters have created the following guide to give you an advantage in a booming NA market.

• Sponsored
• Berkeley NA
• NA Yeast

Today’s British brewers are melding traditional cask bitter with brighter, modern hopping for a crushable alchemy greater than the sum of its parts. Will the rest of us ever catch on?

• Cask Ale
• British Ale
• British Brewing

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: Just south of the Twin Cities, Ansari’s offers some of the country’s finest craft beers with Mediterranean food, pull-tabs, hookahs, and other diversions.

• Love Handles
• Minnesota

The expert, brewer, and publican who helped to elevate Poland’s true national beer style—porter—dives into the style and its modern evolution from a local perspective, also telling the story behind the special day he conceived nearly a decade ago.

• Podcast

Have those countertop, push-button homebrew machines gotten any better over the years? Let’s find out.

• Editors’ Picks
• Easy-Brew
• All-in-One Brewing Machines

Evan Price, cofounder and head brewer of Green Cheek in Orange, California, details how pH, water chemistry, hop varieties, and grain choices are all among the knobs you can turn to shape your ideal perception of bitterness in West Coast–style, hop-forward beers.

• Video
• Video Tip
• IPA

Based on input from Nattachai “Ob” Ungsriwong of the Devanom Brewing Company in Nonthaburi, Thailand, here’s a recipe for making your own sato—inspired by traditional methods, but with a few optional twists.

• Beer Recipe
• Traditional Beer
• Sato