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Josh Weikert gets you started up the sour-beer mountain with a discussion of the basics of bugs, traditional and modern, and fast and slow ways of souring your beer, and how to bring your sours (stylistically) into the twenty-first century.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

Two Rivers Brewing’s Josh Bushey and Weyerbacher’s Chris Wilson describe their first collaboration brew as a young bruin. They “quick” soured it with Lacto and cheated some of the long aging stuff with oak spirals and lots of fruit.

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Sour Recipe

Here are 5 great reasons to teach your family how to homebrew this holiday season.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

Forget sparkling wine and get your beer on this New Year’s Eve. Here’s a guide to beers to reach for throughout the day.

• Craft Beer Scene

There is nothing more comforting on a chilly day than a bowl of hot French onion soup, especially one made with beer!

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food
• Soup

The American wheat ale is one of the newest styles of wheats, and is closer in style to the American pale ale than a German weissbier. Josh Weikert explains the ingredients and processes that make this beer unique.

• Making Beer
• Make Your Best

This Baltic porter that has been a consistent winner for Josh Weikert over the years. It sets up well as a kettle sour because the bright lactic acidity will pair very nicely with the dark fruit and chocolate flavors.

• Beer Recipe
• Lager Recipe
• Sour Recipe

Curiosity, community service, and high-quality balanced beers are the focal points of this relatively new brewery in Athens, Georgia.

• Beer Stories
• Craft Beer Scene
• Breakout Brewer

We’ve taken the classic chocolate ice cream and adapted it to include your favorite milk stout.

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food
• Dessert

With an electric brewing system, it’s not just a matter of figuring out how to heat water and boil the wort; ventilation is every bit as important. Here are some things you should consider as you design your dream system.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

When your local homebrew store doesn't stock high-alpha hops, you'll need to learn how to artificially inflate your IBUs to achieve the right level of bitterness. We have some tips for how to do that!

• Video

To preserve the volatile oils in hops, you need to steep hops at a temperature below boiling. That’s where whirlpool hops additions come into play.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice