Styles

Hazy IPA edges out pilsner by a single vote for the No. 2 spot this year. Where do your other favorite styles to brew and drink fall on the list?

The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft-beer niches. The 2024 rank is noted in parentheses.

With IPAs and pilsners still on top, your favorite styles remained relatively consistent year over year.

Beachwood co-owner and brewmaster Julian Shrago explains why it’s so valuable to expand your sensory knowledge and vocabulary.

Julian Shrago, co-owner and brewmaster at Beachwood Brewing in Los Angeles, explains how he first thinks about the flavors he wants in a beer before he begins thinking about ingredients.

Beachwood Brewing in Long Beach, California, has mastered a wide range of beer styles over the years and has the medals to prove it. In this video course, join brewmaster Julian Shrago as he charts the path from choosing an unfamiliar style of beer to brewing an example that can please the crowd and wow the judges.

IPA continues to top the charts, but lagers made steady and significant gains in 2023.

Ukraine has been on the minds of many people around the world for more than a year now—but that’s not why its national beer style deserves a spot in the global canon. Instead, let’s consider Ukrainian golden ale on its own merits.

You voted on your favorite styles in our annual Readers’ Choice poll, and while IPA continues to top the charts, lagers made steady and significant gains in 2022.

Few experiences in brewing are more rewarding—or make for better practice—than bringing some undersung, underloved, old-fashioned beer styles to life in your own brewhouse. Josh Weikert makes the case for learning, drinking, and brewing the canon.

Study the classics, and use the best ingredients and equipment you can. One secret to making great beer is knowing that others have done the hard work for us—from the brewers who came before us to the farmers who produce our raw materials.

American stout’s unlikely combination of roasted malt and American hops launched a movement and converted many a drinker. So, where the heck did it go? Drew Beechum isolates its elements and makes a plea.

More juice, but with more bite—East Coast and West Coast are synthesizing, again, right before our eyes. How did we get here? And what’s next? Drew Beechum walks us through IPA’s battles and evolutions.

What you love to buy and drink doesn’t necessarily correlate with what you prefer to make for yourself. In our Best in Beer 2020 Reader's Choice poll, here's what you said were your favorite styles to brew.

You chose your favorite styles to drink, and while IPA again tops the list (as it has ever since we’ve asked the question), pilsner and helles made big gains in 2020.

As a serial entrant in major beer competitions, Brink Brewing in Cincinnati, Ohio, has been winning national medals with classic styles, turning them into local success.

Want to add fruit to your beer? Okay. But first ask yourself this important question: Why?

Award-winning Root Down Brewing in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is balancing reverence for the classics with excitement for evolving styles.

For our annual Best in Beer survey, we asked thousands of you what brewing ingredients you prefer to use, and what types of beer you like to brew (and drink). Here's what you told us.

For our Best in Beer 2019 issue, we asked for your favorite brewers of eight different styles of beer. Here are the results.