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A collaborative experiment between South African brewers led to a super-hefty barleywine of 17.5 percent ABV, via an unusual boiling process measured in days rather than hours.

From ZwanzigZ Pizza & Brewing in Columbus, Indiana, the Fulcrum imperial stout twice won gold medals at the World Beer Cup, in 2022 and 2025. Here, brewmaster Mike Rybinski shares the beer’s inspirations and what makes it stand out from the modern crowd. As told to Ryan Pachmayer.

In the never-ending quest for quality, brewers turn to specialized instruments to build a better understanding of their raw materials, their processes, and their beer.

In Scotland, Dan Wye of Fyne Ales is creating mixed-culture beers designed to mimic the flavor and texture of wine. By using foraged fruit, flowers, and herbs in his blends, he’s attempting to define a new style.

Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub founder and brewer Jamie Robinson shares tips on how to brew the kind of eisbock that can win a gold medal—as Northbound Eisbock has done two years in a row at the Great American Beer Festival.

You voted, we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries, broken down into four categories by volume brewed.

The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft-beer niches. The 2024 rank is noted in parentheses.

Looking to brew a beer with haze that’s ready to commit to the long-term? We asked Zach Coleman, head brewer and co-owner at TRVE in Denver and Asheville, for some clarity on haze stability, and he turned to fellow pros for their best advice.

In this yearly update, we plot the moves in the Brewers Association’s top 50 craft brewers by production volume, from 2007 to the present. To simplify the data and make it easier to follow, we fast-forward from 2007 to 2017 and pick up from there.

Growth in 2025 doesn’t look like it used to. In this webinar, we’ll explore what it takes—from SKU discipline to data visibility—to expand with confidence in today’s market.

In centuries past, much of European brewing happened on the farm—and the choice of what to brew was as pragmatic as what to grow. With insights that could inform your next farmhouse ale, Lars Marius Garshol shares some truths about what those farmer-brewers planted, malted, and put into their beers.

The lean and agile brewery relies on data to make growth-based decisions. Given today’s market trends and consumer preferences, that operational data could reveal that the smart path of growth is investing in copacking and venturing into popular beverage categories.

In today’s changing consumer and economic market, breweries need to optimize the performance of their assets and processes. The key to becoming a lean brewery is to use real-time data to streamline operations, cut costs, and grow smart. If your spreadsheets and system can’t keep up with the shelf, it’s time to rethink how your brewery runs—do more with less.

Grab a coffee and check out an insider perspective on the Craft Brewers Conference from veteran chief revenue officer Dan Reese. He covers the surprising collaborations transforming the industry and reveals the strategic moves that separate survivors from casualties. The industry’s evolution is happening now—are you prepared?

From Belgium to Harlem and around the world, with deep dives into barleywine and barrel aging, here are some recent titles worth adding to the brewery bookshelf.

Brewers share strategies for reducing costs on craft beer’s most competitive style.

Here's a new look at the growth in the number of breweries in the United States—growth that’s been leveling off, recently—with some other data points for context.

Beer writer and critic Stephen Beaumont, co-author of the World Atlas of Beer and a Toronto native, names five Canadian breweries that beer lovers everywhere ought to know, now.

Need a last-minute gift idea? Here are some quick hits on new beery reads.

You voted, we tallied. From our annual Readers’ Choice survey, here are your favorite breweries—broken down by size, based on how many barrels brewed per year.