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Here are some tips to keeping the temperature of your homebrewed lager under control.

Stress your yeast in different ways for more interesting characters in your spirits. Learn more about the distilling process in this video tip.

Kellerbier merges the best of British cask ale with German malts and hops in a unique lager style. It has an atypical flavor profile that, depending on your finishing steps, can represent itself as a kind of German ESB or a Continental IPA.

There’s a simple pleasure to this style that makes it a joy to drink, with the added bonus of being a beer that you can enjoy a full dimpled mug of and still follow the action on the pitch.

Ales have long been a brewer’s playground. Lagers, the time-matured, technically difficult, were the other side of the coin. Now, lagers are being played with like ales. Is this tinkering a good thing, or are we about to jump the shark?

Ricardo Petroni and Peter Oates talk about using mathematics to get the most out of hopping, the benefits and worries of "Line Life" and what they've learned from homebrewing and measured growth to help strengthen their business today.

As an American brewer down under, Christopher Sidwa has been able to meld two brewing traditions and, in his book, “Brew A Batch: A Beginner’s Guide to Home-Brewed Beer,” he shares his insights and hopes to inspire a new generation of brewers.

Testing both your water quality and composition at your brewery site might dictate the kind of filtration equipment you might need. Plus, why measuring pH is so important, no matter the batch size you're making.

The robust porter (sometimes called American porter) because it can showcase almost any set of flavors you want. Brew one up now, and it’ll be perfect for your winter social events!

When bottle conditioning be mindful of THP. Kyle Carbaugh is here to help.

Here are the three beer bars that we explored in the “Love Handles” department in Issue 25 (April/May 2018) of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®.

This is a beer you’ll like, that can serve a big (and mixed-palate) crowd, with a hops blend that should intrigue the beer geeks, and has enough punch and interest to stand out on the competition table. Not bad for a boring fizzy yellow lager, eh?

From books that review and evaluate beer, to one that dives deep into ingredients, and another on the financial side of the brewing industry, there's plenty of books to help increase your beer knowledge.

Less than a year into opening Bonn Place Brewing, Sam Masotto won 2 Great American Beer Festival (GABF) medals for his ordinary bitter and English-style dark mild.

In this week's podcast he talks about a brewers love for lager, why attending festivals around the country helps his New Jersey-only distribution brewery, and adventures in barrel-aging.

By replacing the brewing and sparge water with a sugary fruit-flavored drink, one Pennsylvania brewery has released a beer brewed with a popular kid’s snack, and Instagram users couldn’t be happier.

Here’s the recipe for what would later be scaled up to become Dark Star, which would then become Rusty Nail, from Fremont Brewing in Seattle, Washington.

C Squared Ciders Founder Andy Brown offers a few tips on achieving desired sweetness in your homemade cider

Tulsa, Oklahoma’s newcomer Heirloom Rustic Ales courts locals with open-fermented saisons and lagers, proving that good beer takes time and that as craft evolves and grows, having recipes for the uninitiated is great for business.

This New England–style IPA from Civil Society Brewing Co. got its start as a homebrew recipe by Cofounder Karl Volstad and has become the flagship IPA for the South Florida brewery.