Josh Weikert

Last summer, droughts and high temperatures put a strain on the availability of hops. However, putting a more intense strain on hops is something more dangerous because of its potential increase: brewery and consumer demand.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Beer Stories

Standard American Lagers aren’t just for cowboys and college parties—their subtle flavors tease out some pretty incredible nuances when the beer is brewed well. Josh Weikert has the low-down on how to brew this style just right.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

English Porter is one of the oldest continually-produced styles of beer in the world, dating in its current form back to at least the early 18th century. Here’s how to create this interesting (but never overpowering) drinking experience.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

Josh Weikert gets you started up the sour-beer mountain with a discussion of the basics of bugs, traditional and modern, and fast and slow ways of souring your beer, and how to bring your sours (stylistically) into the twenty-first century.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

The American wheat ale is one of the newest styles of wheats, and is closer in style to the American pale ale than a German weissbier. Josh Weikert explains the ingredients and processes that make this beer unique.

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This Baltic porter that has been a consistent winner for Josh Weikert over the years. It sets up well as a kettle sour because the bright lactic acidity will pair very nicely with the dark fruit and chocolate flavors.

• Beer Recipe
• Lager Recipe
• Sour Recipe

In Josh Weikert’s mind, altbier is the perfect beer. Not “the best beer you’ll ever have” kind of perfect, but the “lets you taste and enjoy every aspect of what beer is” kind of perfect.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

The best examples of Vienna Lager are like drinking a liquid version of dry toast. Here, Josh Weikert shows you how to brew one that delivers toasty malt flavors with a dry and clean background.

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• Brewing Techniques and Advice
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Thanks to a few drain-poured barrels of bad ale, Pilsners were born and became the most popular beer style in the world, showcasing the flavor potential of hops long before the first IPAs came on the scene, but giving brewers no place to hide faults.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

We help you identify some beer styles that match, enhance, or confound that fridge full of fun that you faced this morning.

• Pairing Beer & Food

The southern English brown ale is a sweet beer and big on flavor, with a sessionable ABV. Josh Weikert discusses his favorite techniques for brewing the best southern English brown ever.

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• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best

Far from being thin in flavor, Scottish 60 Shilling beers overperform relative to their gravity and grist, thanks to kettle caramelization and a judicious use of crystal malts.

• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice
• Make Your Best