Josh Weikert

Knowing 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.

• Make Your Best
• Porter
• Ice beer

This 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!

• Beer Recipe
• American Stout
• Homebrew Recipe

Thinking 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.

• Video
• Full Video
• Introduction to Brewing

In 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.

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• Czech Pale Lager
• Session Lager

The 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.

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• Scottish Export Ale

Australian 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.

• Beer Recipe
• Australian Sparkling Ale
• All Grain Recipe

Let’s take a walk through the roles hops play during the brewing and fermentation process.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Hops

A 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.

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• West Coast Red Ale

The style is versatile, flexible, and drinkable. And whatever else it might be, it isn’t really a pale ale.

• Craft Beer Scene

While 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.

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• Scottish Heavy Ale

Session 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.

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• Session IPA
• Beer Recipe

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 will be the beer that gets your non-beer-drinking friends started down the path to craft beer.

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• Blonde Ale