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Here are the high points of the year in beer from our contributing editor, one of the most prolific and astute journalists covering the industry today.

Clayton Hops, New Zealand’s largest hop grower, has set its sights on the future with a new range of advanced hop products designed to cater to the industry’s growing interest in sustainable products and flavour innovations.

What’s your go-to brewery for IPA? What about for abbey-style ale, stout, or lager? You voted, we tallied—and here are your favorite breweries broken down by style.

There is more to cannabis than the flowers. Ross Koenigs, founder and brewer at Second Dawn in Aurora, Colorado, explains why earthy, nutty hemp seeds can work beautifully in beer when used as a cereal adjunct.

In this special once-per-year episode honoring the pinnacles of the craft, our editors reveal their Best 20 Beers in 2023 and the results of the annual Craft Beer in Brewing Readers’ Choice poll.

You voted, we tabulated. As determined by our annual Readers’ Choice poll, here are your favorite 25 beers of 2023.

Join Single Hill cofounder and head brewer Zach Turner on an expedition to the Yakima Valley at harvest time to pick up the freshest hops, then take them back to the brewery and add them—in different forms and different ways—to beers brewed on the same day.

From more than 1,000 beers winnowed down via blind judging throughout the year—and then winnowed further by more blind tasting with our top writers and editors—here are 20 beers that represent the very finest in brewing today.

How a Christmas gift and a camping trip led two friends to develop one of the most versatile carbonated growler systems available.

You voted, we tallied. From our annual Readers’ Choice survey, here are your favorite breweries—broken down by size, based on how many barrels brewed per year.

From Misfit Outpost in Cypress, Texas, this beer celebrates South Asian flavor in the form of sweet, creamy jackfruit, which adds its tropical accent to a light, crisp, rice-lager frame.

From its outpost an hour outside of downtown Chicago, Art History has quietly built momentum by focusing on a range of Czech- and German-inspired lagers as well as bitters, milds, and other English styles. In this episode, head brewer Greg Browne and cofounder Tom Rau share their approach to making traditional beers cool again.

Popular in South Asia, this hulking tropical fruit with a sweet, creamy flavor may have something unique to add to the conversation.

Ross Koenigs, founder and brewer at Second Dawn in Aurora, Colorado, explains the basics of decarboxylation, why that step is necessary to activate THC, and why a tincture is the the most prudent route for homebrewers to take.

Are you still manually depalletizing in your packaging operation? Here are four easy steps to immediately increase your brewery’s profits.

Over the years, Metazoa has won more than a dozen GABF and World Beer Cup medals. The latest gold—for a double-decocted, Scottish-style ale made with ingredients on hand, minimal specialty malts, open fermentation, and yeast borrowed from their hazy IPA—is proof that there is more than one way to make a compelling and malt-forward ale.

The BREWHA BIAC is the simplest way to make the best beer. It uses a unique method that takes up less space and uses less water, and it makes brewing simpler, more enjoyable, and easier to do while still providing full control of the brewing process.

Whether you want to brew a more convincing Czech-style lager, or you simply want to borrow a few tricks to shape the kind of beer that seems impossible to stop drinking, here are some elements to consider.

This reverently Czech-style lager is triple-decocted and brewed with imported Moravian malt and whole-leaf Bohemian Saaz. Green Bench cofounder and head brewer Khris Johnson says the beer “was inspired by a life-changing week spent in the Czech Republic with an incredible group of people.”

From New Year’s Eve to breakfast to making new best friends, New Belgium’s Lauren Woods Limbach guides us through six beloved beers that represent excellence as well as those moments that remind you what it’s all about.