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This beer is inspired by some of Fermentery Form’s favorite French farmhouse ales, but in their case, it is made with a mixed culture. The hopping rate is high for a mixed-fermentation beer, but this makes for a long, graceful maturation in the bottle.

Triple Crossing Brewing Company has made a name for themselves with progressively hoppy and hazy beers, but for these central Virginia stalwarts, it’s less about fitting into a “scene” and more about finding an honest yeast expression.

Beers and brewery initiatives are frequently aimed at detecting, preventing, and curing cancers. There’s a new one in the mix.

Randy Mosher is an authoritative voice in beer but he’s still a student at heart. As an author, brewer, and consultant, he’s continuously looking to work with new ingredients, reconsider off-flavors, and try new brewing methods.

If a commercial coolship isn't in your homebrewing budget, Todd Boera has some suggestions on how you can make spontaneous beer at home.

Foeders are becoming a more common sight in breweries these days, and while it’s true that the majority of the brewers are using the vessels for wild or mixed-fermentation beers, others are putting the wood to use for their clean programs.

In this Video Tip Bill Eye, the brewmaster at Bierstadt Lagerhaus in Denver, talks about identifying diacetyl in lagers and possible causes.

The biggest challenge in a Kölsch is building just enough malt body and character without going overboard.

While some think of the Ordinary Bitter as nothing more than a bland, low-ABV, thin-bodied ale, at its best, it’s one of the better drinking beers around!

Updating your brewery can be one of the healthiest things you can do, says Josh Weikert, as he leads you on a walk-through of a prospective system-reboot process that will enable you to get the most out of the time you spend brewing.

With six GABF medals and four World Beer Cup medals under his belt (in categories ranging from Pilsner to stout to IPA), La Cumbre Brewing Company’s Jeff Erway has built a reputation as a perfectionist and outspoken proponent of brewing quality.

Tasters may not be the sexiest glasses, but they play a very important role in your taproom and at tasting events. The right glass can transform a boring, ordinary sip into an impactful sampling experience.

Fonta Flora's Todd Boera talks about his brewery's coolship, the temperatures needed to be successful, and more.

Jeffers Richardson, the former barrel master of Firestone Walker Barrelworks (Buellton, California), explains how using wine barrels for beer has evolved and what they look for and expect when working with wood that once housed vino.

Learn the pros and cons of using pelletized hops vs. whole leaf hops in this Craft Beer & Brewing video tip!

It’s the second-largest ingredient in your beer by weight, and yet many brewers are content to keep uncritically plugging away at brewing with grains that were bred and designed to satisfy the needs of large breweries. That is beginning to change.

Soft and pillowy from generous use of flaked oats and dextrin malt for body, Parish Brewing’s hazy IPA recipe is a great base for innumerable juicy dry-hop permutations.

By finding the “white space” in the brewing industry—that is the styles, trends, and flavors that still need to be explored, Parish Brewing Co. is working to stay competitive and give customers a reason to get continually excited about its beer.

Adam Avery of Avery Brewing has seen a lot of cycles in craft beer over his past 26 years in business, and is bullish on the future.

Spike Brewing launches a small-batch, 5-gallon fermenter.