Recipe: Just Lite American Lager
Besides sanitation, success here depends on two things: slightly chloride-forward water to round out the malt, and great attenuation for a light, dry finish.
Jun 7, 2026
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Recipe: Kiitos Fonio Fusion IPA
Patrick Bourque, head brewer at Kiitos in Salt Lake City, says they brewed this IPA to showcase fonio’s unique flavors—such as passion fruit, lychee, and white peach—and how those flavors meld nicely with the flavors and aromas of modern hop varieties.
Jun 1, 2026
Recipe: Vine Street Black Is Beautiful Fonio Ale
Missouri’s first Black-owned brewery, Kansas City’s Vine Street, released this light, hoppy, fonio-focused riff on the Black Is Beautiful open-source collab in 2025.
May 28, 2026
Recipe: Mova Pilsner
From Mova Brewing in Dnipro, Ukraine, here’s a recipe for the Czech-style pilsner that won gold at the 2025 European Beer Star, beating out some of the best lager breweries from Czechia, Germany, the United States, and around the world.
May 20, 2026
Recipe: Formula Wetland Wheat
From Formula Brewing in Issaquah, Washington, here’s a recipe for the contemporary American wheat beer that won gold at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival.
May 13, 2026
Recipe: New Penny Scottish Heavy 70-Shilling Ale
Malt-forward yet light and highly drinkable, this Scottish-style session ale is also straightforward to brew.
May 10, 2026
Recipe: Dunham Saison Dunes
From head brewer Éloi Deit and his team at Brasserie Dunham in Dunham, Quebec, this saison recipe features the catkins of the green alder—also known as dune pepper.
May 6, 2026
Recipe: Piwo Grodziskie Oryginalne
From Marcin Ostajewski, head brewer at Browar Grodzisk, here’s a recipe for the revived classic from the style’s own hometown.
Apr 29, 2026
Recipe: Scared Sour Berliner Weisse
If you find kettle-acidification to be intimidating, this Berliner weisse is a great way to start learning the process and thus expand your repertoire as a brewer.
Apr 26, 2026
Recipe: Origins Tulaman
From Dan Wye, head of the Origins project at Fyne Ales in Cairndow, Scotland, here’s a recipe from one of his mixed-culture wine chimeras—containing no grapes, but with flavors inspired by sauvignon blanc wine from France’s Loire Valley.
Apr 20, 2026
Recipe: Jester King Still Wild Ale
Want to try your hand at brewing an uncarbonated ale with enough acidity to refresh and complexity to intrigue? Here’s a recipe from Austin’s Jester King for a lambic-inspired beer that’s ready to drink in just a few months.
Apr 13, 2026
Recipe: Georgian-Style Aludi
As a way to illustrate the methods that go into one of the world’s oldest surviving brewing traditions—including wind-dried malt, foraged hops, and a boiled mash—here’s a recipe for aludi, the farmhouse ale from Georgia’s highlands.
Apr 9, 2026
Recipe: Cinder Block Construct of Quality Helles
The helles that won gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup was a collaboration between Cinder Block of Kansas City, Missouri, and Blind Tiger of Topeka, Kansas. The objective? To craft a high-quality helles without a traditional decoction mash.
Apr 6, 2026
Recipe: Six-Shooter Abbey Singel
This recipe takes inspiration from the lighter, easier-drinking blonde ales that the Belgian Trappist monks brew largely for themselves—but you can have some, too.
Apr 1, 2026
Recipe: Goldfinger American Zoigl
In the Chicago suburb of Downers Grove, Goldfinger has built a strong national reputation for its lagers. This one is inspired by the German zoigl tradition but makes use of American ingredients, including corn and whole-leaf Mt. Hood hops.
Mar 30, 2026
Recipe: Annie’s Peach Radler
Here are two recipes in one: first the peach soda, which you can modify depending on your own chosen fruit, then an extract-brewed helles that you can blend to your liking.
Mar 22, 2026
Recipe: Fogbelt Red Tail Ale
Fogbelt Brewing in Santa Rosa, California, recently revived this craft classic long brewed by Mendocino in nearby Hopland. Often cited as the first American red ale, pioneering microbrewers Don Barkley and Jack McAuliffe first brewed Red Tail Ale in 1983.
Mar 18, 2026
Recipe: Ancient Fancy Show-Off Nordic Grog
With conjecture based on archaeological findings, here’s a recipe for a mixed grog—in this case, an ale that includes herbs, honey, and fruit—of the sort that well-to-do, Bronze Age Danes might have enjoyed on special occasions and then (literally) taken to their graves.
Mar 16, 2026
Recipe: Unsung Clawburst West Coast Pilsner
From Unsung Brewing in Anaheim, California, this West Coast pilsner—with tropical character driven by Mosaic and Nelson hops—won silver in the Hoppy Lager category at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
Mar 4, 2026
Recipe: Funky Fauna Edwin
Funky Fauna Artisan Ales in Bend, Oregon, ferments their light, quenching house saison with their own locally captured mixed culture.
Mar 3, 2026
Recipe: Heater Allen Callista Pils
Lisa Allen, co-owner and brewer at Heater Allen and Gold Dot Beer in McMinnville, Oregon, shares this recipe for a pils designed to show off a nontraditional German aroma-hop variety.
Feb 27, 2026
Recipe: Sunriver Che Figata Italian-Style Pils
With a burst of Lórien hops in the whirlpool and more in the dry hop, the team at Sunriver Brewing in Sunriver, Oregon, describes this hop-forward pilsner as “distinctly crisp, with elegant hoppy notes of wildflowers, lemongrass, and black tea.”
Feb 26, 2026
Recipe: Kros Strain Fairy Nectar
This Citra- and Mosaic-powered hazy IPA is the popular flagship from Kros Strain in La Vista, Nebraska. See the notes below for how to adjust for the DDH version.
Feb 19, 2026
Recipe: Annie’s Atomic Amber Ale
A classic style in the American craft pantheon, this amber ale is Annie Johnson’s house beer—the one she’s brewed again and again to dial in her process and ingredients. (She also drinks it.)
Feb 16, 2026
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