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Evan Price, cofounder and head brewer of Green Cheek in Orange, California, details how pH, water chemistry, hop varieties, and grain choices are all among the knobs you can turn to shape your ideal perception of bitterness in West Coast–style, hop-forward beers.

• Video
• Video Tip
• IPA

Based on input from Nattachai “Ob” Ungsriwong of the Devanom Brewing Company in Nonthaburi, Thailand, here’s a recipe for making your own sato—inspired by traditional methods, but with a few optional twists.

• Beer Recipe
• Traditional Beer
• Sato

Amid craft beer’s rise in Thailand, brewers there are taking a fresh look at what their uncles and grandmas concocted—a folk drink fermented from sticky rice, wild yeast, molds, and a seemingly random mix of botanicals. (They’re also figuring out how to make it better.)

• Rice Beer
• Rice Wine
• Rice

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: The Silver Stamp in Las Vegas pours an incredible selection of beers in a comfy, divey atmosphere.

• Love Handles
• Las Vegas

The low-ABV, 100-percent-oak-smoked-wheat-malt beer came back from the dead in the past decade, and the original Grodzisk brewery was similarly revived to focus on the style. In this episode, head brewer Marcin Ostajewski shares history as well as contemporary techniques for making the beer dubbed “Polish champagne.”

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The accomplished brewer and president of the National Black Brewers Association shares his curated six-pack—and it’s the lineup of a geek who’d queue for special releases, get together with buddies to share hard-to-get bottles, and seek out beers of exquisite quality and flavor.

• Pick Six

How did we get here? Green Cheek cofounder and head brewer Evan Price traces the recent history of IPA in the West Coast style, as it’s moved away from caramel and fully embraced pilsner malt.

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• Video Tip
• IPA

When it comes to memorable beer experiences, we get to do more than most—and we love that part of the job—but we can’t do it all. And yet … what if we could? Here are our picks for where we’d love to be in the year to come, given druthers, time, and wherewithal. See you there?

• Best in Beer
• Bucket List
• Beer Festivals

We asked five of the brewers behind our Best 20 Beers in 2023 to share their own favorites from 2024.

• Five on Five
• Best in Beer

From Atlas Brew Works in Washington, D.C., here’s a recipe for their popular pilsner, a bronze medal–winner at the 2022 Great American Beer Festival. Easy-drinking yet flavorful, this pils gets subtle extra character from its Cal Common yeast strain.

• Beer Recipe
• Pilsner

These are the conversations that piqued your interest, with highlights from the most-downloaded podcast episodes of the past year.

• Podcast

From a word on water to dry hopping, fining, and carbonating, cofounder and head brewer Evan Price shares an overview of Green Cheek’s process for West Coast–style beers.

• Video
• Video Tip
• IPA