Josh Weikert
Make Your Best Ice BeerBy Josh WeikertKnowing how to build a recipe for fractional distillation (and, of course, how to use the process) and making a style an "Ice Whatever" is a great club to have in your bag.
Solstice American Stout RecipeBy Josh WeikertThis is a fun and easy beer. It has easily-recognizable flavors, can mask minor faults, and is easy to get right. Brew it up just before the holidays, enjoy through the snowy winter months, and share with your homebrew and craft beer skeptic friends!
Full Video: The Basics of Brewing BeerBy Josh WeikertThinking about getting into brewing or making your beer a little better? Join Josh Weikert as he takes you through the fundamentals of making beer, equipment you'll need, and building recipes.
Make Your Best Czech Pale LagerBy Josh WeikertIn the dog days of summer it's a great time to brew up a large batch of what can conventionally be referred to not by its proper BJCP Style Guidelines name (Czech Pale Lager) but instead by a more descriptively-accurate name: Session Pilsner.
Make Your Best Scottish Export AleBy Josh WeikertThe Scottish Export is the strongest of the three lower-ABV ales in the family. A malt-forward, low-ABV, toasty-not-roasty beer with minimal hops, but at the 80 shilling level we're expecting a more pronounced set of flavors.
Down Under Australian Sparkling Ale Beer RecipeBy Josh WeikertAustralian sparkling ales needed a little something to brighten them up, and along it came: fun, funky, “Down Under” hops. With some creative hopping, these are worth your time.
Hops: Start to FinishBy Josh WeikertLet’s take a walk through the roles hops play during the brewing and fermentation process.
Make Your Best West Coast Red AleBy Josh WeikertA decent jumping-off point for Red Ale is the American Amber, which ostensibly includes Reds in their midst. There are some worthwhile differences to note, though.
Examining the Belgian Pale AleBy Josh WeikertThe style is versatile, flexible, and drinkable. And whatever else it might be, it isn’t really a pale ale.
Make Your Best Scottish Heavy AleBy Josh WeikertWhile the Heavy may not be heavy in comparison to almost anything else, it's heavier than the sixty-shilling light ales of Scotland. To the extent that we care about differences between beers and how those beers are produced, that's all that matters.
Make Your Best Session IPABy Josh WeikertSession IPA isn't just a question of reducing the gravity (although that's one way to go, and we will be): it's a question of generating a lot of flavor from hops and finding light ways to balance those flavors.
Make Your Best Blonde AleBy Josh WeikertThis Blonde Ale is more flavorful than your average "lawnmower" beer, so save it for after you mow. Once you dial in the recipe, this will be the beer that gets your non-beer-drinking friends started down the path to craft beer.