Craft Beer & Brewing Staff
Editors’ Picks: Taking Charge of Ale Abbey, and Cracking into More Malt OptionsFrom role-playing as a medieval abbey brewer to finding specialty craft malts online, here are a couple recent picks from our editors.
Five Best-in-Beer Brewers Pick Their Own Faves from 2025It was so much fun last year, let’s make it a new tradition: We asked five brewers from last year’s Best 20 to name their favorite new beer from the past year.
Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2025You voted, we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries, broken down into four categories by volume brewed.
Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Top 25 Beers of 2025Which beers do you love the most? We polled thousands of our magazine and newsletter subscribers on their favorites, and here are the results.
Five on Five: The Pros Pick Their Favorite Midwest IPAsThese IPAs have followed their own evolutionary paths, embracing body alongside hops for smooth intensity.
Editors’ Picks: Bespoke Bottles, Blends, Books, and BobbleheadsFrom beer-baron bobbleheads to bespoke barrel-aged blends, here are a few recs from our editors.
Five on Five: Stouts Beloved by the ProsFrom sessionable milk stout to silky barrel-aged sippers, here are five brewer favorites certain to satisfy.
Editors’ Picks: Strain GainInnovation in the fermentation space shows no sign of slowing, as today’s yeast suppliers continue to expand the brewing world’s access to novel and functional yeast varieties—and delivered in better shape than ever before. Here’s a handful of yeast-related developments piquing our interest.
Editors’ Picks: Easy-Brew Gadgetry, RevisitedHave those countertop, push-button homebrew machines gotten any better over the years? Let’s find out.
Five on Five: Brewers of the Best in Beer Pick Their Own Faves of 2024We asked five of the brewers behind our Best 20 Beers in 2023 to share their own favorites from 2024.
Five on Five: Adjunct LagerTotally unpretentious, yet challenging to execute with precision... We asked five brewers for their favorite lagers brewed with body-lightening corn or rice.
Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2024You voted, and we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries broken down in categories by beer barrels brewed.