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The permutations are infinite. Crack into our Spring 2025 issue, and choose your own malternate reality.

From the historic heart of Amsterdam, De Bekeerde Suster brewer Jason Pellett shares this recipe for a hop-forward pale ale that makes use of cacao’s fruity pulp (and a few of the nibs).

Third Eye co-owner and head brewer Kelly Montgomery makes the case for freshly roasted cacao nibs and using real vanilla extract in combination with vanilla beans to capture a rich chocolate flavor in stouts.

It’s time to get hyped up with this double dry-hopped hazy IPA fermented with Berkeley Yeast’s tropical aroma–producing hazy yeast strain, Tropics London.

Cacao isn’t just for chocolate beers—around those nibs is a whole fruit with its own bright and unexpected flavors. Largely unknown outside tropical climates, those flavors present some unique possibilities for beer.

Twice per year, the production teams at Austin’s Hold Out and Live Oak breweries get together to brew what they call “the king of tater beers.”

Neil Fisher of Weldwerks is back for a special 400th episode conversation that touches on current challenges in craft beer, opportunities on the horizon, discipline and fundamentals, advantages of openness, fostering connection, and more.

From Belgium to Harlem and around the world, with deep dives into barleywine and barrel aging, here are some recent titles worth adding to the brewery bookshelf.

From layering malts to selecting and infusing adjuncts, Third Eye co-owner and head brewer Kelly Montgomery lays out their medal-winning approach to planning and brewing rich, flavorful stouts.

From hop selection to dry hops, finishing gravity, and mouthfeel, Other Half cofounder and brewmaster Sam Richardson isolates the key elements of their popular, year-round imperial hazy IPA.

The Isuzu NRR is a low-cab-forward class 5 truck, designed to haul over 6,000 lbs of payload, depending on the wheelbase.

Big yet simple in its construction, this is a showcase of what clean ethanol flavors can add to a beer. Apple-like alcohols meld with the hop aroma and bready grist to yield a simple yet dangerous lager that’s anything but boring.

Contrary to popular misconception, great dessert stouts require balance and intention. In this episode, James Herrholz explains how Corporate Ladder uses roast, bitterness, and a wide range of malt to build depth and dimension into indulgently sweet beers.

When most people hear “bock,” they think malt—and there’s no question that maibock is a malt-forward style. However, you can lean into hops and other flavor elements to add interest, and—done well—the result is much more than a “strong helles.”

This Belgian-style amber ale should serve as a fine vehicle for any “concrete” sugar such as panela, piloncillo, rapadura, tapa de dulce, or jaggery.

Once derided as cheap adjuncts, sugars have become useful, flavorful tools for today’s creative brewers.

The nonalcoholic beer market is undergoing a remarkable transformation, evolving from a niche segment to a thriving industry fueled by consumer demand for healthier, lower-alcohol alternatives. Here we take a look at the role ProBrew’s Alchemator is playing in this transformation.

For the past decade, Denver’s River North Brewery has pushed the limits of fermentation with ultra-high-gravity beers, and in this episode they share insights into building balance and refinement in very, very big beers.

From founder-brewer Jonathan Thibault at La Ferme in Shefford, Quebec—a rural brewery about 60 miles east of Montreal and 35 miles north of Vermont—here’s the recipe for a tart wheat beer that features nearly two kilos of a beloved local produce: haskap berries, aka camerise.

This juicy berry from the North has many names and much potential, rising from relative obscurity to become a tasty superfruit worthy of a leading role.