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ABS Commercial has been a full-service brewery and parts outfitter for over 10 years. We know the ins and outs of the brewing process, which includes a very important piece—maintenance.

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Jess and Doug Reiser, cofounders of Asheville’s Burial Beer, share a thoughtful six that have inspired their own personal journeys and shaped the beers that they now produce.

• Pick Six

“Mecha Red is a modern amber ale intended to be malty and caramelly, but not a sticky caramel bomb,” says Van Havig, cofounder and master brewer at Gigantic in Portland, Oregon. “It’s mildly fruity from hops and esters and finishes with a hint of chocolate.”

• Beer Recipe
• Red Ale
• Amber Ale

A ruddy ’90s pint is reappearing with modernized flavors—and it has a lot to say about the evolution of American craft brewing.

• Amber Ale
• American Amber Ale
• Cascade Hops

This Nashville brewery strives for big flavor, but their process of testing assumptions and finding more authentic ways of making popular styles leads to crowd-favorite beers that critics can love.

• Podcast
• Hazy IPA
• Tart Fruit Beers

For those willing to take on a dark, low-strength, smoked beer, this historic Danish style may be the way to go. Yet there’s a question you must answer for yourself: How traditional do you want to make it?

• Skibsøl
• Smoked Beer
• Historical Beer

Cider isn’t the only fermented fruit messing around with craft beer’s most cherished ingredient. In California, Field Recordings’ dry-hopped pét nat marries the best of wine and beer.

• Wine
• Beer-Wine Hybrids
• Dry-Hopped Wine

One of beer’s signature ingredients is adding interest and depth to one of the world’s great fermented drinks. Here’s how and why some cidermakers are embracing hops.

• Cider
• Hops
• Hopped Cider

As one of the very few commercial breweries in modern times to attempt a smoky “ship’s beer,” Right Proper in Washington, D.C., shares this recipe inspired by the Danish tradition.

• Beer Recipe
• Historical Beer
• Smoked Beer

Dark, smoky, and well-hopped, yet low in strength, “ship’s beer” was the daily ration of Danish sailors in the 18th and 19th centuries—and it hasn’t completely disappeared. From written sources of that time, here’s what we know.

• Skibsøl
• Denmark
• Smoked Beer

American craft beer’s archetypal classic style, updated with some contemporary ideas.

• Beer Recipe
• Pale Ale
• American Pale Ale

One of the world’s most cherished hop-growing regions had a rough growing season last year—but there are plenty of reasons to be optimistic, and there is more to Czech hops than Saaz.

• Podcast
• Hops
• Saaz