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Make Your Best Coffee Beer

Once you get the process down for your system and palate, you can play around with the amount and type of coffee involved, and you should also start playing around with the styles of coffee beer you brew!

A Different Kind of Beer Boot

L.L. Bean, the boot, clothing, and outdoor gear company, partnered with a number of local breweries to highlight small-batch craftsmanship as well as their surroundings.

The Best 18 Beers of 2018

We were busy this past year tasting beers that were sent to our office, shared at a bar, brewery or pub, and poured at festivals around the world. It’s difficult but rewarding work and we’re pleased to present our editors picks for top beers of 2018.

Reader's Choice: Best Beers of 2018

The results are in! We asked our readers to pick their best beers of 2018. From new and hazy IPAs to classic saisons and stouts read on to see if your favorite made the list.

Podcast Episode 54: The Best 18 Beers of 2018: A Peek Behind the Curtain on How Beers Are Selected

In this special edition of the podcast be among the first to hear the breweries who made the list and why, and get a peek behind the curtain on how beers are selected.

Video Tip: The Advantages of Adding Farmed Ingredients to Your Coolship

While the normal process is to add special ingredients on the cold side Evan Watson of Plan Bee Farm Brewery makes a compelling case for why you should add everything from herbs to fruit into your coolship during the initial fermentation period.

Brewing Impacts: The Terroir of Barley

People understand how terroir affects wine, hops, and even coffee, but how terroir affects barley hasn’t really been explored in great detail. That’s changing, and one Alberta brewery hopes to elevate beer’s unexplored ingredient.

Video Tip: Brewing Adjunct Beers with Maple Syrup

Learn about brewing with maple syrup from Neil Fisher, the head brewer and owner of WeldWerks Brewing in this tip of the week.

Latest Videos >

Video Tip: The Advantages of Adding Farmed Ingredients to Your Coolship

While the normal process is to add special ingredients on the cold side Evan Watson of Plan Bee Farm Brewery makes a compelling case for why you should add everything from herbs to fruit into your coolship during the initial fermentation period.

Video Tip: Brewing Adjunct Beers with Maple Syrup

Learn about brewing with maple syrup from Neil Fisher, the head brewer and owner of WeldWerks Brewing in this tip of the week.

Video Tip: Farm Brewing In An Urban Environment

In this video tip Evan Watson says it's not impossible to make farm-inspired beers if you live in a more populated area, but it takes some thought and planning.

Video Tip: The Importance of Lactic Acid When Making Saké

Certified Saké Advisor Jeff Cioletti discusses the importance of lactic acid in the Saké making process.

Latest Video Courses >

Farming for Beer with Plan Bee Farm Brewery

Join Plan Bee Farm Brewery owners Evan and Emily Watson on their 25-acre farm in Poughkeepsie, NY as they guide you through farm brewing.

Brewing English-Style Beers with Bonn Place Brewing

Less than a year into opening Bonn Place Brewing, Sam Masotto won 2 Great American Beer Festival medals for English-style beers. In this video-only course, join Sam for 70 minutes of brewing knowledge that will help you make better English-style beers.

Brewing Techniques for High Gravity Beers

Craft Beer & Brewing contributor Taylor Caron covers everything you need to know about high gravity brewing, fermenting, and packaging. Whether you've encountered a stuck fermentation, missing gravity, or other challenges, Taylor has the answer for you.

Brewing Techniques for Low Alcohol Beers

BJCP Grand Master Josh Weikert covers everything you need to know to scale down your full-strength recipe to a more affordable and crushable beer.

Distilling for Brewers with Feisty Spirits

In this bonus video course, Feisty Spirits Founder Jamie Gulden covers the distillation process, equipment, proofing, and techniques specifically for beer brewers. Feisty Spirits has won more than 21 different medals and awards.

Brewing Mixed Culture Brett Beer with Wiley Roots

From the foundation of recipe development to sampling your beer, Kyles discusses the considerations in selecting your grain bill, hops, yeast, bacteria, fermentation duration and temperature, adjuncting, and a lot more.

Beer recipes >

Afterthought Brewing Company’s Saison Meer: Dandelion Recipe

Afterthought Brewing Company’s Saison Meer: Dandelion is a blonde mixed-fermentation saison brewed with dandelions and Midwestern ingredients and aged in oak.

Troon Brewing Placebo Effect IPA Recipe

If you brew with oats because you’ve accepted this as common knowledge but have never actually experimented with it yourself, then this recipe will be especially edifying.

Blind Enthusiasm's ACME Red Recipe

Here's a recipe from Canada's Blind Enthusiasm Brewing: a bold red ale with big stone-fruit notes and a very dry finish.

Der Falke Kellerbier Recipe

Kellerbier merges the best of British cask ale with German malts and hops in a unique lager style. It has an atypical flavor profile that, depending on your finishing steps, can represent itself as a kind of German ESB or a Continental IPA.

Beer reviews >

Review: Perennial Artisan Ales Merna (83)

“A mixed-culture ale brewed with lots of wheat and gently hopped to give the yeast-and-bacteria culture the ability to be fully expressed. Aged for 8 months in oak wine barrels, then package- conditioned. Pours golden-orange and has a sweet-tart/funky aroma rounded out by the oak presence.”

Review: Little Fish Brewing Petit Poisson (95)

“Petit Poisson is a traditional saison, barrel aged 3–6 months and soured before packaging. It won a bronze medal at the 2018 World Beer Cup. Brewed with Ohio Pilsner, wheat, rye, and oats, and hopped with American noble varieties.”

Review: Wiley Roots Galaxy DH Funk Yo Couch (100)

“Tart farmhouse saison fermented with wild captured Brettanomyces, dry hopped with more than 1 pound per barrel of Australian Galaxy hops. Winner of a gold medal at the 2017 GABF.”

Review: Surly Brewing Misanthrope (93)

“This Belgian-style saison is aged in oak white-wine barrels with Brett. Golden in color, it has notes of tropical fruit wrapped in an oaky horse blanket. It is best served cool and enjoyed alone or with a tolerated companion.”

Review: Standard Brewing Time Crystals #1 (92)

“Time Crystals #1 started life as a blonde bière de garde and was refermented in oak on apricot with a derivative of Brettanomyces bruxellensis.”

Review: Side Project Raspberry Biere du Pays (89)

“Wine barrel–aged farmhouse ale conditioned on both black and red raspberries.”

Review: Saint Benjamin De Cave (94)

“This bière de garde spent 9 months aging in oak barrels. Each year, we set aside a small portion of our Carriers Bière de Garde and age it in wine barrels with a blend of wild yeasts. In that time, the beer takes on a mild tartness and aromas of stone fruit and dried figs.”

Review: The Rare Barrel Roads Diverge (84)

“Fermented with a mixed culture, this tart saison is delicate in aroma and flavor, soft in texture and acidity, and showcases notes of pink peppercorn, grass, and lemon rind.”

Case Study: Edmund’s Oast Brewing Co.

One of the pioneers of South Carolina craft beer, Edmund’s Oast isn’t aiming to rest on its laurels. In order to stay competitive and grow the business, they are looking toward the future.

The Logistics of Seasonal Breweries

A handful of breweries in the country make their living from just a few short months of business. Located in busy tourist areas that thrive on seasonal business, these brewers manage employees, overhead, and more while worrying about the lean months.

What’s It Worth? Determining the Value of Your Brewery

You know how much money you have in your checking account. As a brewery owner, you also need to know the value of your business.

Case Study: Wachusett Brewing Company

Unless you live in New England, you might not be aware of one of the country’s largest craft breweries. And even if you are, you might be surprised at how Wachusett Brewing Company carved itself a niche on a humble style that’s decidedly local.

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