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Learning Lab: Accidentally on PurposeIn this Learning Lab, we intentionally make things harder for our yeast cells—to better understand what can go wrong, and how to recognize what happened.
Elements of Beer: Recycling Hops in the BrewhouseThink you need to throw out all that fragrant green sludge? Maybe you don’t. A few American brewers are experimenting with reusing spent dry hops, and the results are intriguing.
Full Video: Brewing Unique Beers (Without Hops)Stuart Keating, cofounder and head brewer of Earthbound Beer in St. Louis, Missouri, shares what he's learned from years of getting evocative (often beery) flavors out of a range of unusual (often un-beery) ingredients.
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Cooking With Beer: The Brewer, the Baker, the Sausage MakerBring spent grain to (after) life with these three recipes using your best brewing by-products.
Recipe: Earthbound Cardamom Pepper Tea BlondeCourtesy of Stuart Keating, founder of Earthbound Brewing in St. Louis, Missouri, here is a homebrew recipe for a crisp, sessionable blonde ale in which cardamom, black pepper, and black tea mimic the floral, spicy notes of British hops.
Flavor Fever: The Tightrope of GoseBy Randy MosherA nearly forgotten style became a popular plaything in American brewing. Balance, as usual, is the trick—and how to pull it off depends on what you put in it.
Podcast Episode 131: Sensory Expert Lindsay Barr Wants You to Become a Better Beer TasterBy Jamie BognerWe all taste beer, but do you really taste it? Developing a disciplined, analytical approach to honing your palate is a key skill for every brewer, and Barr’s thoughtful approach will make a difference in how (and what) you taste.
Recipe: Triple WishBy Drew BeechumDon’t think of this as a clone of Dupont’s Avec Les Bons Voeux—think of this as a beer inspired by it. It’s the right blend of earthy, hoppy, fruity, spicy, and dry, and it makes for sweet dreams.
The Alchemator Crafts a Better Hard SeltzerThis inline system is designed to make hard seltzer out of the beer that brewers are already producing. As a bonus, it can facilitate low- or non-alcoholic beer without loss of taste or quality.
Gearhead: Shortening the Wait for Finished BeerMany brewers are using in-line carbonation systems to inject CO2 into the beer as it moves from one vessel to another, thereby reducing the wait from crashed to canned (or kegged).
Recipe: New Anthem Steez IPANew Anthem says the grist of this hazy IPA has evolved over the past few years; this recipe reflects the most recent state of the juicy-hops-driven beer that scored a 100 with our blind panel and was named one of our Best 19 Beers of 2019.
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Breakout Brewer: New AnthemBy Kate BernotMeticulous attention to raw materials and the embrace of under-loved hop varieties have helped the beers of New Anthem Beer Project stand out in a thickening crowd.