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This Bamberg-style smoked red lager is rich and malty with plenty of smoke and a hint of Noble hops aroma and has a gluten-reduced option.

At Canada’s Dageraad Brewing, Brewmaster Ben Coli is out to create a little piece of Belgium in British Columbia.

A German-style bock lends a malty counterpoint to briny oysters in these spicy shooters.

Find out exactly what cold break is and why it’s important.

Join the CB&B cofounders as they taste through a saison, a couple of IPAs, and a wild ale.

Conduct a dry-matter test to determine when your homegrown hops are ready to harvest.

Get the quick-start guide to homebrewing. Topics include beginner tips, brew kettles, bottling, yeast starters, and fermentation.

Oxygen has a way of destroying the things we love, including beer.

Four craft brewers share their thoughts on today’s pale ales.

This traditional Irish Red ale is a popular pounder, now updated with a gluten-reduced option.

Pick up some fresh ears of corn, jalapeños, and garlic at the farmer’s market, grab a six-pack of your favorite amber ale, and cook up a pot of this delicious soup.

For a variety of selection and harder to find beers, these bars will quench your thirst for only the best beer.

In part 3 of his mead series, Kyle Byerly covers fermentation, aging, bottling, and potential problems you could encounter in your early mead-making adventures.

If your beer tastes of plastic, smoke, Chloraseptic, or Band-Aids, then look to these 5 potential sources.

Like craft beer, mead has many styles and names for those styles. Here are some of the many mead styles that you’ll encounter in your mead-tasting adventures.

This ale is a play on a British pale ale using American hops.

Rockmill Brewery is designing Belgian-inspired beers that are brewed to be paired with food and is targeting chef-driven states for distribution.

These Maibock-enhanced crepes layered with lemon vanilla yogurt and topped with raspberry sauce are sure to be a hit at your next barbeque.

This single-hops pale ale showcases the versatility of high alpha-acid Citra hops as both a bittering and aroma hops.

Solvent character is almost always the result of fermenting too hot.