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The only thing better than learning from your mistakes is to learn from someone else’s mistakes.

Say hello to the hibiscus flower. Its bold flower petals aren’t just eye-catching; they’re also edible when dried, which means summer beer brewing just got a lot more colorful.

If you’ve never brewed with spices before, here are some tips to get you started.

Converting your father into a craft beer geek means that shopping for Father’s Day gets more challenging every year.

A fellow homebrewer and I decided to brew a recipe that might approximate (even if only in spirit) the original IPAs from Burton-upon-Trent.

Here's the biggest craft beer headlines in May.

Hefeweizen, also known as Weissbier or Weizenbier, is Bavaria’s famous unfiltered wheat beer and one of the most refreshing styles you’ll ever encounter.

Summer is prime time for craft beer event season, and there seem to be more events than ever this year. It’s not all tap takeovers and beer fests, though—here are some of the more creative beer events going down next month.

Back in January, we paid a visit to Oskar Blues Brewery in Longmont, Colorado.

Widmer Brothers Brewing is going big for their 30th anniversary—even bigger than we thought.

Ask homebrewers about the number one consumer appliance on their wish lists, and you're likely to get some variation on a refrigerator or freezer (assuming professional brewhouses don’t count).

Check out these pairing tips for the perfect meal.

At Stone Brewing Co., craft beer and music go together as well as hops, barley, water, and yeast.

The humble handle is a piece of equipment you didn’t know you needed until you’ve used one.

This city’s craft beer scene has been getting major press, both for its burgeoning artisanal brewery movement and for Oskar Blues, Sierra Nevada, and New Belgium opening production breweries nearby.

Mead. The word conjures up visions of lavish, bacchanalian feasts and roughly-hewn drinking horns.

Friends of the Boundary Waters Wilderness has announced Brews and Canoes, a craft beer competition to celebrate Minnesota’s outdoors and the 50th Anniversary of the Wilderness Act.

Brad Page, the founder of Colorado Cider Company in Denver, Colorado, was one of the original brewers at Denver’s iconic Wynkoop Brewing Company.

In beer-rich Vermont, which claims the state title of second most breweries per capita in the United States, a new brewery faces the challenge of standing out.

"Racking" is the brewer’s term for transferring beer from one container to another.