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Pastry stouts have turned into something quite specific: strong stouts mimicking flavor profiles of desserts, ranging from classic pastries to packaged sweet snacks often delivered with a heaping spoonful of irony. But there’s more to them than just that.

Here’s a homebrew-scaled version of the hoppy Pilsner that Resident Culture Brewing Company brewed in collaboration with Casita Cerveceria.

In the world of beer, and certainly German beer, weizenbocks are strange unexpected beers.

A Florida brewery is making good use of local springs to age an IPA. For the third time, the brewery has dunked a barrel for an extended time and is ready to serve it to the masses.

The conversation dives into their creative process on IPA design, yeast choice, driving attractive esters, blending unexpected Noble hops into progressive IPA hops blends, the effects of warm dry hopping temperatures on their dry hopped saisons, and more.

When thinking about what the modern era has brought to the wild and sour beer space, time isn’t the factor that it used to be, and there's hope the momentum that is gaining with local microflora won’t become stalled or merely a passing fad.

Pints for Prostates Fundraiser Set for Oct. 4

Burial Beer Cofounder + Brewer Tim Gormley shares lessons learned from more than 10 years of commercial brewing experience, covering everything from getting to know your ingredients to achieving balance with them.

The quality of the hops your use in your beer can mean the difference between an excellent pint and one immediately ready for a drain pour. Choose wisely and well.

Brian “Swifty” Peters, the owner and brewer of The Austin Beer Garden Brewing Company, talks about being “Pilsner-obsessed” and what goes into making a great Pilsner.

Glycol systems, and the ways in which breweries control for temperatures in general, have improved quite a bit over the past four decades. Now they’re safer and more efficient than ever.

C Squared Ciders Founder Andy Brown offers a few tips on picking the right juice before you begin fermentation of your cider.

There are choices you can make when it comes to picking the right wheat for your grain bill. But by going a little deeper and using artisanal varieties of wheat Nile Zacherle of Mad Fritz Brewing says you can really draw out new flavors in your beer.

Triple Crossing Beer’s flagship DIPA is overwhelmingly dry hopped with Mosaic and Simcoe. It’s soft, smooth, and hugely hops-forward with notes of tropical fruit, pineapple, passion fruit, and mango balanced with hints of resin and pine.

It can be difficult to find new ways to innovate. That doesn’t mean breweries aren’t trying. Building on a tradition of taking beer past its existing boundaries, some brewers are exploring the oceans, forests, and beyond.

Steve Bischoff, lead brewer at Root Down Brewing Co. knows a thing or two about traditional American IPA. Last year he won gold at the Great American Beer Festival in the category and nabbed best mid-side brewer and mid-size brewery in the process.

How a brewer in the Midwest used a mash filter to create a beer that mimics bourbon and then decided to make a proper cocktail.

Not all dark beers—and most especially not all dark lagers—are the same. Take some time to parse the different dark lager styles out there and consider not only how they differ but also how we can modify our brewing approaches to produce them.

While some think of beers as being either lagers or ales, there is a third category: hybrids. Let's examine how the beers in this category differ from each other but also how we can make recipe and/or process changes to make them the best they can be.

In this edition of Lovehandles we explore The Dram Shop, JK O’Donnell’s, and Hand + Foot