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For a hearty dish to warm these chilly days, grab your favorite roast-forward stout or porter and head for the kitchen to try the recipe for these short ribs.

• Cooking With Beer
• Stout
• Short Ribs

From Otherlands Beer in Bellingham Washington, this evolving recipe represents a snapshot of head brewer Ben Howe’s ongoing quest to crack the code of Franconian lager.

• Beer Recipe
• Helles
• Kellerbier

As independent brewers worldwide follow their own paths of lager rediscovery, it’s worth taking a closer look at where it all started—the keller—and the rustic tradition we know as kellerbier.

• Kellerbier
• Lager
• Franconian Lager

From Kelly Montgomery, co-owner and head brewer of Cincinnati’s Third Eye—a frequent medal-winner for their stouts—this richly layered recipe includes a range of flavorful dark malts plus additions of lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

• Beer Recipe
• Imperial Stout
• Dessert Stout

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