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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.

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• 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

With thanks to Brian Grossman, Scott Jennings, and the production team at Sierra Nevada in Chico, California, and Mills River, North Carolina, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for their fresh-hopped annual throwback.

• Beer Recipe
• American IPA
• IPA

Making sweet dessert meads isn’t particularly difficult in and of itself, but building drinkability and balance into big flavors and high finishing gravities poses challenging flavor questions. Florida’s Brewlihan answers them with beautifully structured meads that find balance through the flavor triangle.

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Not every beer needs to chase the latest trends and tech—consider Sierra Nevada’s Celebration IPA, the fresh-hopped seasonal that remains reassuringly old-school. here, chief brewer Brian Grossman explains how the team works to keep its profile consistent in the face of changing tastes and changing hops.

• Sierra Nevada
• Celebration
• Fresh Hops

Marcus Baskerville, former head brewer and co-owner at Weathered Souls in San Antonio, shares this recipe for the richly layered, Caribbean-accented imperial stout that was one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.

• Beer Recipe
• Imperial Stout
• Dessert Stout

From cocoa to coconuts via lactose and long boils, brewers are shaping today’s dessert stouts for easy appeal. Just don’t say they’re easy to make.

• Style School
• Stout
• Dessert Stout

This extract-based wee heavy recipe offers the chance to try boiling down some wort in the kettle to develop caramelization and deeper malt flavor.

• Beer Recipe
• Scottish Ale
• Wee Heavy

Lager is anything but a minimalist pursuit for the head brewer of Philadelphia lager stalwarts Human Robot. Flavor and character are primary focuses, and the brewery achieves those with all the tools in the toolbox—interesting ingredients, customized approaches to decoction and other processes, and a variety of fermentation profiles that maximize different types of expressions.

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• Lager

Dear reader: You’ve seen the headlines, contemplated the statistics, and you’ve probably felt some of the sting yourself, but rest assured—draft beer is not dead. It has, however, been neglected. Here’s how we give it new life.

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