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Whether you’re drinking beer to make the long, cold winter bearable, or enjoying a pint on a patio on a warm summer day, these are the spots that have helped this Michigan city earn the name “Beer City USA.”

• Craft Beer Scene
• Beercation

You can't make great beer without being a great beer evaluator. Join Josh Weikert as he shows you how to become the best judge you can be

• Video
• Full Video
• Evaluating Beer

If you like lambic and gueuze, then maybe turbid mashing is for you.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

When bottles of Boston Beer’s Millennium made it onto a rare-wine auction list, you could say that more than a few wine lovers’ heads were turned.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Beer Collection and Trading

Here we’ve used Amarillo, Chinook, and Nugget to create an American saison with a bright pineapple and blackberry flavor and a distinct resiny Nugget aroma.

• Beer Recipe
• Saison Recipe

In our 2017 Gear Guide issue (April/May), our editors tested and reviewed a couple of mash tuns (and one mash paddle) and the Ruby Street Fusion 25, an integrated brew system. Here are the results.

• Making Beer
• Gear Guide

This raspberry and cherry sour has won several awards for pro-brewer-in-planning Geoff Coleman, including Best of Show at the 2015 Colorado State Fair and a Gold Medal at the 2016 Big Beers Festival.

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Sour Recipe

No-chill brewing is a water-conservation technique developed by pioneering brewers in Australia. Here are 6 tips to get you started if you want to give it a try.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

Brewers have often used pH to describe the sourness of their beer, but recent research has shown not only that titratable acidity correlates more closely to perceived sourness, but that additional factors are also important. Stan Hieronymus elaborates.

• Craft Beer Scene

ESB is distinctly English, with significant malt complexity (though usually of the lower-Lovibond variety), a fairly high IBU-to-gravity ratio, and English flavor/aroma hops and yeast strains. Here’s how to make your best one.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

Saison + lemon + orange + ginger add up to a pop of summertime excitement for salmon filets.

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food

Wormtown Brewery (Worcester, Massachusetts) Brewmaster Ben Roesch shared this extract recipe for his double IPA.

• Beer Recipe
• Extract Recipe
• Pro Recipe