Josh Weikert

The goal isn't sweet and spicy, but rather dry, dark, and deceptively drinkable. Take a stab at this Belgian-style dubbel.

• Beer Recipe
• Belgian Dubbel
• Brown Ale

From his Make Your Best style series, try this recipe for Josh Weikert's "Headsplitter"—a richly malted strong Scotch ale, a.k.a. wee heavy (hold the peat).

• Scotch Ale
• Scottish Wee Heavy
• Beer Recipe

This rich, malty, warming barleywine recipe is fit for special occasions and long aging.

• Barleywine
• Beer Recipe

Here is a Baltic porter recipe worthy of patient lagering and maturation.

• Baltic Porter
• Beer Recipe

Thick, rich, smooth Baltic porter is a comforting treat for the frigid months. If only it were easier to brew...

• Baltic Porter
• Porter
• Lager

This big, complex crowd-pleaser winds up like a cross between a banana protein shake and Belgian dubbel. Ferment warm and buckle up.

• Weizenbock
• Beer Recipe

The style allows for creativity, which means that you can choose to dress up whichever part of the profile you prefer, making the beer sweeter, more bitter, less roasty, or more “oaty,” as you like it.

• Stout
• Beer Recipe
• Oatmeal Stout

In case the colder months get you down, this brightly hopped wheat beer offers a taste of Southern sunshine.

• Wheat
• New Zealand
• NZ Hops

As summer turns to autumn, here is Josh Weikert's recipe for a slimmed-down, session-strength, but still full-flavored Altbier.

• Altbier
• Light Beer
• Session Beer

This blonde ale is more flavorful than your average “lawnmower” beer, so save it for after you mow. Once you dial in the recipe, this beer will get your non-beer-drinking friends started down the path to craft-beer obsession! And you’ll enjoy it, too.

• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Beer Recipe

Belgian beers have a reputation for being somewhat hops-negligent. However, that reputation is absolutely unjustified. Please meet a beer that was once described to the author as the “King of the Belgian and French styles,” the Bière de Garde.

• Beer Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• Biere de Garde

The Vienna lager lands in a place where it’s toastier than pale German lagers but nowhere near the caramel and melanoidin-heavy richness of “modern” Oktoberfest. The best examples of Vienna lager are like drinking a liquid version of dry toast.

• Beer Recipe
• All Grain Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe