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Forget the chewing and the spitting. The Americas’ most important indigenous beer is alive and well today, connecting old traditions with curious drinkers.

From owner and head brewer Rich Nuñez at Radicle Effect Brewerks in Rock Island, Illinois, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for the local cult favorite they release only twice per year—four kegs, and it’s done.

It’s hard to call classic PNW hops “trendy,” but at Portland, Oregon’s Grand Fir, Whitney Burnside is finding new ways to build modern IPAs with these familiar varieties, creating consistent base character in IPA before branching out with expressive top notes.

Learn how the VPA‑80 can-carrier applicator from Roberts PolyPro helps boost output, reduce downtime, and ease labor strain, all while improving sustainability and ROI.

Roast us for it, if you must, but we won’t mince words: Garlic beer could be a breath of fresh air.

Hop water is the easiest win your brewery can claim this year—low lift, high margin, and full flavor. Here’s a scalable recipe and flexible flavor framework built for modern production. If you’re already using advanced hop products or terpenes, you’re almost there. This quick guide gives you the rest.

Using information provided by brewers Stefanie and Helmut Bayer, we’ve pieced together a homebrew-scale recipe for the Franconian country lager at Brauerei-Gasthof Bayer in Theinheim.

While modern brewers continue to push the creative envelope with their evolving takes on farmhouse beers, there is nothing quite like the old-fashioned Wallonian ales that inspired them in the first place.

Has Gen Z stopped drinking? Has the craft-beer bubble finally burst? There’s a lot of sensationalism out there, so we turned to National Beer Wholesalers Association chief economist Lester Jones for a data-driven take on what’s real and what’s just vibes.

In Bavaria’s lager-loving Franconian region, the Bayer family’s Theinheim Landbier is integral to their tradition of local hospitality.

From Accra’s Heritage Brewing, Ghana’s first modern brewpub, comes this recipe for their flagship lager—technically an ale, but cleanly fermented—featuring local maize and cassava as the bulk of its fermentables.

Navigate hop application with confidence–optimize flavor and efficiency with Yakima Chief Hops’ product usage matrix.

It’s not always a simple process, but independent brewers in Ghana are favoring locally grown starches such as rice and cassava over imported malt, forging an identity for Ghanaian craft—oh, and they’re winning international medals for the beer.

Brewing a helles is a worthy challenge. If your process is consistent and your ingredients fresh, you can make this beer sing on command.

We often think of “balance” in brewing as a little bit of this, and a little of that. But with nonalcoholic beer, a little bit just doesn’t cut it—more flavor is better, more body is necessary, and balance becomes the delicate art of finding middle ground between the out-there extremes.

Isuzu NRR trucks with the Summit refrigerated body are weekday delivery workhorses and weekend party warriors.

A great helles is simple in composition—but simple can be surprisingly hard to get right, especially when there’s nowhere for mistakes to hide. It's a worthy challenge, and the payoff is a beer that pretty much everyone is happy to drink.

Buying and integrating used equipment doesn’t mean just plug and play—what looks like an incredible bargain in used brewhouse or cellar equipment could just as well turn into a nightmare of a money pit without strategic planning, thorough integration, thoughtful modernization, and on-the-fly creative problem solving. This partner podcast focuses on real-world integration case studies with fast-growing Big Grove Brewery.

Brewers face more challenges than ever—rising ingredient costs, flavor drift, scaling issues—but terpene science and advanced hop products are changing the game. From boosting flavor consistency to cutting production time and dry-hop loads, these innovations give brewers powerful new tools. Abstrax is leading the charge with cold-side, true-to-type products that deliver bold aromas, precise flavor control, and huge cost savings. Whether you’re crafting hop-forward IPAs, vibrant fruit fusions, or low-calorie hop waters, discover how terpenes can transform your process and unlock next-gen flavor.

When it comes to building your malt bill, go smarter, not harder. Here are some key insights from two award-winning brewers on purposeful malt choices that can elevate beers, not muddle them.