Josh Weikert
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.
Blackstrap Foreign Extra Stout RecipeBy Josh WeikertForeign Extra Stout isn’t a complicated style. However, it is a distinct style, and missing the mark on any one of several flavor characteristics will unavoidably drag it out of its home in category 16D and into one of the other stout styles.
Make Your Best White IPABy Josh WeikertWhite IPA should not be confused with Belgian IPA. It's what you get when you combine the flavor profile of a Belgian Witbier with a lot of highly-complementary new age hops.
Make Your Best GoseBy Josh WeikertOnce nearly extinct, both American and German breweries have saved this beer style, which can now be found on any number of tap lists and shelves. That's a wonderful thing, because it can be a fantastic beer.
The Modern Battle of Stout vs. PorterBy Josh WeikertWhat's the difference between porter and stout? long, quiet eras in brewing history have washed out the distinctions between the two styles, insofar as they ever were significantly different to begin with. Josh Weikert wades into to dark waters.
Considering the White StoutBy Josh WeikertWhite Stout is a style that confuses some, enrages others, and gets a lot of brewers very excited. You can call it a lot of things, but the white stout is not only a style but also a playground for making interesting, flavorful beers.
A Primer on Descriptions when Entering Beer CompetitionsBy Josh WeikertSome brewing isn't really about entering competitions and winning awards but submitting your beer for the anonymous evaluation that competitions offer is usually a sound idea. But if you're going to enter, you might as well try to win. Here's some tips.
Make Your Best Doppelsticke AltbierBy Josh WeikertDoppelsticke, as its name implies, is a "doubled" version of the Sticke, making it something akin to a German Barleywine.
Make Your Best: Classic Style Smoked BeerBy Josh WeikertSmoked malts can be touchy to work with. For one thing, not every batch of smoked malt is identical, even when comprised of the same grain and smoked with the same wood. Dive into this specialty grain with our homebrewing columnist to learn more.
'Alaskan Red' Red IPA Beer RecipeBy Josh WeikertThis recipe will serve you well as a faithful Red IPA that avoids the pitfalls of the style while amplifying its virtues.
Make Your Best German LeichtbierBy Josh WeikertOur homebrewing columnist, Josh Weikert, offers this recipe for a beer that is low-alcohol, delicate, and lightly flavored. Rather than being an American mass-produced lager it is, instead, a modern take on a traditional German style