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After two days of judging for our Best 20 Beers in 2024, the team sat down to discuss their own most enjoyable beers and experiences of the past year—along the way identifying some trends that may offer hope for the next chapter of craft beer’s story.
Our own Hops Insider and the author of numerous books on brewing shares his highlights from the past year.
Our contributing editor and one of the most accomplished chroniclers of the brewing industry shares her top beers and moments from the past year.
Our Bangkok-based executive editor selects top-of-mind picks and thoughts based on his travels in the past year.
Concentrated, aromatic hop extracts such as HyperBoost can help elevate non-beer beverages, including hop water and hard tea. Paul Schneider, cofounder and head brewer of Cinderlands Beer in Pittsburgh, explains what it brings to the table.
Here are the best cities in the United States and around the world for drinking great beer in 2024—according to you, our readers.
Functional beverages—those that claim a positive effect, usually health-related—are booming. It’s a challenging area for beer, legally and scientifically, but could gut-friendly, probiotic beers win people over?
Kevin Templin, cofounder and head brewer at Templin Family in Salt Lake City, shares this recipe for their GABF medal-winner that also became one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.
Hear the stories behind the stories, as Jamie and Joe share your Readers’ Choice picks for favorites of the year, and as they reveal and discuss Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2024.
A year of focused tasting panels plus two full days of blind judging and lively discussion among our editorial panel—including Kate Bernot and Stan Hieronymus—culminates in this: the roll of honor. Here are the 20 beers that awed, delighted, and inspired us the most, representing the pinnacle of the craft today.
You voted, and we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries broken down in categories by beer barrels brewed.
The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft beer niches. 2023 rank is noted in parentheses.
Which beers do you love the most? We polled thousands of our magazine and newsletter subscribers on their favorites, and here are the results.
Oklahoma City’s Big Friendly is a two-time Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival, in 2022 and 2023. Here’s a recipe for the imperial stout—no adjuncts, not yet barrel-aged—that serves as the base for Vanilla Boom, one of our Best 20 Beers in 2024.
This crisp and dry Japanese-inspired lager is brewed with rice and hopped with Perle, Tettnanger, and Saphir. pFriem Family Brewers describes it as having aromas of “Shiso plum, fresh bread, and violet” with “sparkling notes of fresh green tea and wildflowers.”
While the aromas aren't qualitatively the same, a relatively tiny amount of HyperBoost can effectively replace a large amount of hop pellets—with none of the wort loss. Paul Schneider, cofounder and head brewer of Cinderlands Beer in Pittsburgh, explains.
We’ve tested plenty of gear over the past 10 years, but which among them have taken a licking and kept on ticking? Which ones do we find ourselves still using frequently, after all this time? Here’s a look back at our favorite products over the years that still bring us joy.
As NA beers grow as a category, specialized yeasts can be an accessible way for smaller breweries to jump into the fray. But which strain should you try first? Recent research aims to help you narrow it down.
One of the great things about this beer is its stability: The roast continues to shine even after a few months in the keg or bottle. Some sweetness can build over time—but by then, we may be deep into winter, and that sweetness may be just the thing.
In this direct fire Q&A with audience questions, recorded live at the Brewer’s Retreat at Dogfish Head in Delaware, Steve Parker of Fidens, Scott Janish of Sapwood Cellars, and Kelsey McNair of North Park discuss hazy IPA and ways to promote haze stability, balance high finishing gravity, reduce metals in finished beer for longevity, and more.