John Holl

We were busy this past year tasting beers that were sent to our office, shared at a bar, brewery or pub, and poured at festivals around the world. It’s difficult but rewarding work and we’re pleased to present our editors picks for top beers of 2018.

• Best of 2018
• Craft Beer Scene

In this special edition of the podcast be among the first to hear the breweries who made the list and why, and get a peek behind the curtain on how beers are selected.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

What fruits work best when it comes to brewing a Florida-weisse? J. Wakefield has the answer in this week's podcast. The celebrated homebrewer turned pro also talks about his love of stouts, the art of collaboration and much more.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

One of the great challenges brewers will have to tackle in the coming years is how will they honor tradition with lagers and pilsners while also forging new paths forward, as they’ve done with styles such as India pale ale.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Lagers

Dunkin’, the doughnut-and-coffee chain, has connected and collaborated with another New England institution, Harpoon Brewery, to create a coffee-infused porter that will be available through the end of the year.

• Craft Beer Scene

From the best kinds of salts to use to how it can mess up some brewing equipment, there's no one better to talk about gose than Fal Allen. This week he talks about his new book that focuses on the style, what he's learned brewing them at Anderson Valley.

• Podcast
• Craft Beer Scene

Next time you’re planning a spring or early summer homebrewing session and you look out onto the lawn and see dandelions popping up, don’t hit them with the mower. Gather a bunch and add them to a saison recipe.

• Special Ingredient
• Craft Beer Scene
• Dandelion

Proving that experience is the best teacher, Jay Bullen, a homebrewer turned pro who has bounced from one side of the country to the other, recently settled in northern Massachusetts and is now focused on creating traditional styles.

• Breakout Brewer
• Craft Beer Scene

You’ll get your fill of haze and pastry stouts; hops are everywhere.

• Craft Beer Scene
• GABF

With a new tasting room and a second location, Highland Park Brewery in Los Angeles can clearly follow two paths: the predictable, more controlled one of beers made in stainless with one yeast strain, and the other path—mixed-culture fermentation.

• Breakout Brewer
• Craft Beer Scene

When a major storm comes ashore, brewers and brewery owners need to prepare for the worst. In the Carolinas, beer professionals have spent the past week preparing for the worst and the eventual aftermath.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Hurricane

Ales have long been a brewer’s playground. Lagers, the time-matured, technically difficult, were the other side of the coin. Now, lagers are being played with like ales. Is this tinkering a good thing, or are we about to jump the shark?

• Craft Beer Scene
• Brewers Perspectives
• Lager