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With a name like Benchtop, you’d expect experimentation backed by quantitative evaluation, and that’s exactly how founder Eric Tennant approaches brewing passion projects such as foeder lager and barrel-aged barleywine.

• Podcast

This bright and bitter American IPA—still with a light touch of caramel malt—won gold medals at the 2023 World Beer Cup and Great American Beer Festival, then went on to become one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• American IPA

From the weather at the farms that grow the ingredients to every aspect of brewing and on to the climate in which we enjoy it, temperature affects beer profoundly. So, whether you’re gulping an ice-cold one in the desert or sipping a snifter by the fireside, let’s ponder beer’s ethereal, delicate nature—whatever the season.

• Flavor Fever
• Temperature
• Cold Beer

Brewers share strategies for reducing costs on craft beer’s most competitive style.

• IPA
• COGS
• Costs

Beer sales are down, but not out. Recent history indicates that reigniting consumer interest in craft beer usually involves catchy new hop flavors and beer styles that deliver them to a range of palates.

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A great one to enjoy by the autumn bonfire, this is a style that any smoked-beer enthusiast should know how to make—and it can be nearly as easy to brew as it is to drink.

• Make Your Best
• Gratzer
• Grodziskie

Billed as a “hop sandwich” by the St. Louis brewery, 2nd Shift’s Art of Neurosis is an evolving American IPA that features loads of Columbus and Simcoe with just a kiss of caramel malt.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• American IPA

From interviews recorded at 3 Sons Lumberjack Day in Dania Beach, Florida, these two brewers from different corners of Europe cover a range of topics, from using a mash press filter for imperial stouts to riffing on grodziskie with mixed cultures and fruit.

• Podcast

Here's a new look at the growth in the number of breweries in the United States—growth that’s been leveling off, recently—with some other data points for context.

• Infographic
• Craft Breweries

Introducing Firestone Walker’s 2025 Brewmaster’s Collective

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Before there was hazy or even a defined West Coast style, there was an IPA that emerged as a brashly hopped counterpoint to British ale. It never went away—but it evolved. And today’s brewers are making it better than ever.

• American IPA
• IPA
• Caramel Malt

BoxPop® designed and fabricated a mobile shipping container bar for Four Father’s Brewing Company out of Indiana. Learn more about how BoxPop® helped expand their business to increase their serving capacity and allowed them to support more events.

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• Video