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In our 2017 Gear Guide issue (April/May), our editors tested and reviewed a variety of new coolers, totes, cleaning tablets, and bottle openers. Here are the results.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Gear Guide

From the crucible of conflict come beers of great intention.

• Video

At home, there are a few ways to execute a whirlpool, but first it helps to know a little bit about tea leaves.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

This recipe is a riff on the traditional fish taco, but instead of batter frying the fish, we’re poaching it in lager. Poaching the fish allows it to hold more flavor from the poaching liquid than frying it will so you will get those beer-y undertones.

• Cooking With Beer
• Pairing Beer & Food

Here’s advice on how—and how long—to store those freshly roasted coffee beans you’re using in your next brew.

• Video

Some of the country’s most talked-about sour-beer brewers weigh in on how they do it.

• Craft Beer Scene

With just a bit of tweaking, you can produce a range of session stouts that preserve the complexity and interest of their full-strength cousins. Josh Weikert shows you how to maintain body and flavor in a session stout.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

This riff on old ale relies on an extended 3-hour boil for kettle caramelization and color, a technique normally associated with Scottish ales.

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Extract Recipe

Have you used a polypin? It’s a flexible, low-cost cask-conditioning solution that will serve you well.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

American Pale Ale should be a beer that drinks easily and highlights its American hops flavors and aromas. Its closest analog isn’t IPA; it’s British Golden Ale, Americanized! Here’s how to brew a great one.

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

This house IPA at Block 15 Brewing (Corvallis, Oregon) is packed with notes of citrus, dank pine, and papaya with just enough malt character to prop them up and bitterness to balance.

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Pro Recipe

For Melvin Brewing Cofounder Jeremy Tofte, Belgian-style beers played a formative role in his early life, but you’ll find only one of them in his dream 6-pack that leans heavily toward IPAs and imperial stouts.

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