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This light, fruity ale highlights honey and honey-driven peach and apricot flavors against a clean, biscuit-like background.

• Beer Recipe
• Honey Beer

Step into the modern era with AccuBrew. We put eyes inside your tanks.

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You don’t need fruit to brew a fruit-flavored beer—malt, sugar, hops, and yeast can all be used to mimic the character of various fruits. Yet, once mastered, there is another use for this power of deception: boosting the flavors of real fruit.

• Fruit
• Esters
• Fruit Beer

Much of what becomes beer is made in the kettle. From our Illustrated Guide to Homebrewing, here’s a look at what’s going on in there and the many decisions we can make along the way.

• Homebrewing
• Boil
• Wort

After getting his start as a homebrewer, Kosmicki’s first pro brewing gig was on Founders’ 30-barrel brewhouse. Two decades in, he’s approaching innovation with a cautious eye for sustainability.

• Podcast

A splash of stout for deglazing the pan leaves some for you to drink while preparing this hearty (yet meatless) flatbread, great for sharing or a late-night snack.

• Cooking with Beer
• Flatbread
• Mushroom

Point of sale (POS) processing fee structures can sound complicated at first, but it’s critical to understand the difference between them so you can make the best decision for your brewery and your profits.

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From ball bearings to infusion tanks, Maplewood founder Adam Cieslak and special projects lead Adam Smith offer technical advice on how to best extract the flavors from ingredients such as coconut and coffee.

• Video
• Stout
• Dessert Stout

IPL is about making sure the “L” part—lager—is getting its due. With this recipe, the idea is make something that’s clearly a lager but also features hops in a way that doesn’t overwhelm the palate or the grist.

• Beer Recipe
• India Pale Lager
• IPL

Heater Allen’s head brewer and the inventor of cold IPA are joining forces to launch lager-centric Gold Dot Beer in McMinnville, Oregon.

• Lager
• Oregon
• Gold Dot Beer

Michigan’s Old Nation didn’t set out to brew hazy IPA. Yet when they tackled the project, they did it with the analytical rigor one would expect from disciplined brewers trained to brew lagers.

• Podcast
• Hazy IPA
• Helles

With thanks to Brian and Doug Coombs and Matt Van Wyk, cofounders of Alesong in Eugene, Oregon, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for the base beer that they use for their co-fermentations with local fruit.

• Beer Recipe
• Fruit Beer
• Mixed Culture