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Altbier is the perfect style, and you can’t improve upon it... but sometimes you need to push the envelope.

• Make Your Best
• Sticke Altbier
• Altbier

From the Hércules brewery in Querétaro, Mexico, here’s the lowdown on Pueblito, the export stout that won gold at the 2024 World Beer Cup—including the brewery’s German-inspired method for bottle-conditioning, which kept the beer in top form at the judging table.

• Ask the Pros
• Export Stout
• Stout

Now is the perfect time to craft robust beers—from barleywines and imperial stouts to other high-gravity styles—that stand up to the season. Check out these must-have tips for brewing these high-strength, winter-ready beers.

• Sponsored

Ashleigh Carter, cofounder of Denver’s Bierstadt Lagerhaus, focuses solely on lager in her own brewing, and she’s drawn to those with similarly singular approaches. Her chosen six-pack honors intentional commitment to a style, to a single beer, to presentation, and to experience.

• Pick Six
• Lager
• Denver

Reach for a bottle of local craft cider and embrace the flavors of autumn with this dish, which pairs well with sides such as butternut squash, sweet potatoes, or roasted turnips.

• Cooking With Beer
• Cooking with Cider
• Farmhouse Cider

Years of iteration combined with several stints interning at a Franconian brewery helped hone Howe’s approach to flavorful, fulsome lager—and the counterintuitive methods rooted in an older style of German brewing contribute to a character that’s difficult to achieve any other way.

• Podcast

From Dundulis in Panevežys, Lithuania, this recipe is based on their interpretation of traditional keptinis beer brewed from an oven-­baked mash.

• Beer Recipe
• Keptinis
• Farmhouse Ale

Here’s how brewers are using verticalized AI solutions to gain a competitive edge in a rapidly changing market.

• Sponsored

When beer gets high enough in alcohol content, it can pose a threat to can lining and affect how we perceive carbonation. In this clip from their video course, River North founder Matt Hess explains how and why they bottle in glass and adjust for carbonation.

• Video
• Video Tip
• High Gravity

Can barley farming practices help mitigate the increased risk from climate chaos? And how can breweries articulate the value of regenerative practices in their beer? In this conversation with New Belgium and Bell's environmental program director Walker Modic, farmer and brewery owner Derek Heersink, and Proximity Malt commercial director Zach Gaines, we ponder the answers to those questions and more.

• Podcast
• Regenerative Farming

There are many kinds of dark beer around the world, but there’s one that stands out as profoundly different from the others—and it features a deep, caramelized flavor that can only come from a nice, hot oven.

• Keptinis
• Baked Beer
• Lithuania

Russian River cofounder and brewmaster Vinnie Cilurzo shares this recipe for a beer to celebrate the 25th birthday of one of his favorite hops.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• West Coast IPA