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Brewing the Perfect Pumpkin Ale

More than a decade ago, Mark Pasquinelli embarked on a quest to brew the perfect pumpkin ale. Here, he shares his techniques for brewing a fall favorite brimming with malty comfort, rich pumpkin flavor, and an assertive spice profile.

Make Your Best Weissbier

Brewing your best Weissbier includes a series of don’ts: don’t forget the rice hulls, don’t grow up a yeast starter, don’t oxygenate the wort, don’t cold crash. Here’s what to do for a crowd-pleaser of a beer for these dog days of summer.

Chocolate Pain Perdu Recipe

While more associated with savory dishes, IPA adds layers of flavor to desserts such as this chocolate pain perdu with butter caramel-salted peanut ice cream.

Chocolate Achromatic Stout Recipe

This imperial stout is designed by Weldwerks Brewing Co.'s Head Brewer, Neil Fisher, specifically for aging with roasted cacao nibs and vanilla beans to create a rich, decadent, and complex beer that features notes of bittersweet, dark, and milk chocolate.

Pick Six: Rogue Brewmaster John Maier

Rogue Brewmaster John Maier’s personal palate leans toward classic expressions of intense flavors.

Sour Mash Secrets

Why bother with sour mashing? Aside from mastering a new technique, the biggest advantage is that you can blend with sour mash.

Beer-Brined New York Strip with Grilled Jalapeño and Chimichurri Recipe

Steak soaked in an IPA marinade, grilled over an open fire, and served with a tangy chimichurri—what could be more delicious?

Breakout Brewer: Jester King Brewery

The addition of a stainless-steel coolship in 2013 has let Jester King Brewery explore the “living performance art” of 100 percent spontaneously fermented beers.

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Kegging Your Homebrew

Join Zymurgy Editor Dave Carpenter as he walks you through everything you need to know to start kegging your beer.

Fermentation Management: A Season for Every Beer

Fermentation temperature matters. Josh Weikert offers some tips on choosing the right time of year to brew certain styles of beer to make temperature control easier.

Fermentation Management: Yeast Strains and Their Quirks

Josh Weikert explains the importance of understanding (and adjusting for) the quirks in different yeast strains so that, at the end of the day, you get the beer you want.

Fermentation Management: Stable Temperatures

Josh Weikert offers tips on creating an environment with stable temperatures for your fermenting beer.

Beer recipes >

Chocolate Achromatic Stout Recipe

This imperial stout is designed by Weldwerks Brewing Co.'s Head Brewer, Neil Fisher, specifically for aging with roasted cacao nibs and vanilla beans to create a rich, decadent, and complex beer that features notes of bittersweet, dark, and milk chocolate.

Wander Brewing’s Uncommon California Common Recipe

Wander Brewing’s Uncommon California Common is a nod to a truly American style. It’s also a nod to the beer that converted brewery Founders Chad and Colleen Kuehl into craft-beer lovers.

“Multigrain Fruit Juice” Pale Ale Recipe

Beer nerds, here’s the mimosa mixer you’ve been looking for.

Cloudburst Brewing’s Boom. Roasted! Coffee Porter

Steve Luke says about this coffee porter that was brewed at Cloudburst Brewing earlier this year: “I think lighter roasts can be less astringent and acrid compared to darker roasts, so they meld a bit better with darker and roasted malts in the beer.”

Beer reviews >

Review: Weihenstephaner Hefeweissbier (93)

“Our golden-yellow wheat beer, with its fine-poured white foam, smells of cloves and impresses consumers with its refreshing banana flavor. It is full-bodied with a smooth yeast taste.”

Review: Smuttlabs The Stallion (98)

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Review: Transient Artisan Ales Cromulent (96)

“American pale ale with Mosaic and Simcoe hops.”

Review: Deep Ellum Play Date (92)

“Play Date is a juicy ale with notes of sun-kissed fruit, lemon, citrus, and melon. We start with our iconic Dallas Blonde as the base and ferment it to dryness with Medjool dates; the earthy tea presence of the dates plays well with the acidity to create an ale that is truly free-spirited and unique in character.”

Review: Santa Fe Brewing Company Freestyle Pilsner (90)

“The assertively hopped Freestyle Pilsner exudes the flavor and the aroma of the classic Saaz hops (a tribute to “the original” Pilsner), while maintaining enough body to balance but not overpower this hops’ pleasant, spicy tone. An unhurried lagering process makes this beer a light, clean, and quenching beer.”

Review: Grand Teton Brewing Company Brett Saison (96)

“Aged in wine barrels for nine months. Dry-hopped. The live _Brett_ and the generous amount of unique and flavorful hops make this a great beer to drink fresh.”

Review: Fremont Brewing Barrel-Aged Dark Star, Coffee Edition (97)

“Aged in Kentucky bourbon barrels. Roasted and chocolate malts complement smooth oats. A touch of sweetness dances in balance with the hops.”

Review: Hardywood Park Craft Brewery Quadrahop (95)

“Nelson Sauvin hops deliver gooseberry and white wine. Citra brings passion fruit, lychee, melon, and citrus notes. Amarillo adds fresh lemon, orange, grapefruit, and tropical floral. Mosaic adds berry and mango and a backbone of earthy pine.”

Funky Buddha Sold to Constellation Brands

Earlier this morning Constellation Brands, the company behind Corona, Ballast Point Brewing Co., wineries such as Mondavi, and spirits companies such as SVEDKA Vodka, announced that it has purchased Florida’s Funky Buddha Brewing Co.

Brewing for Gold

There’s really no trick to doing well at competitions—just make flawless beer and enter it into the right category. So easy everybody can do it, right?

Independent Beer Wholesalers Fuel the Craft-Beer Market

Independent distributors provide critical access to market for small breweries and help develop craft-beer culture.

Forward Contracting Hops

When breweries contract their hops usage at least three years in advance, it lets hops growers better project the varieties to grow and whether to expand the farms, helps prevent shortages or overages, and creates more stability in the hops market.

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IPA Recipes We Love

We love every IPA recipe on our website, but these stand out as our favorites.

Perfect 6 Packs from the Pros

Here are the dream six packs that your favorite pros would drink.

Gear Tests

Trust the experts at CB&B to test out an array of products so you get the right one for your needs.

Homebrew DIY

Enjoy this collection of articles that will show you how to build the tools to brew better beer.

Mmmm, Coffee and Beer

A collection of articles that combine the two greatest beverages.

Craft Beer Collecting & Trading

16 articles to up your beer-nerd game and build a cellar like whoa.

Cooking with beer >

Beer-Brined New York Strip with Grilled Jalapeño and Chimichurri Recipe

Steak soaked in an IPA marinade, grilled over an open fire, and served with a tangy chimichurri—what could be more delicious?

Muffaletta with IPA-Brined Veggie Relish

Muffaletta sandwiches can be found all over New Orleans, from delis and corner grocery stores to upscale restaurants. Here, we use focaccia for the bread, and we’ve replaced the traditional olive salad with an IPA-brined vegetable relish.

Cast-Iron Chilaquiles with Eggs Recipe

Basically, chilaquiles are corn tortilla pieces that are fried, then cooked in salsa, and sprinkled with cheese. For this summertime cookout recipe, we use a Mexican lager and make the salsa as we go, then add eggs.

Jalapeño and IPA Battered Corn Dogs Recipe

The jalapeño and IPA batter on these corn dogs adds a spicy and bitter counterpoint to the sweet corn.

Travel >

Beercation: Burlington, Vermont

Beer and travel writer Heather Vandenengel spent a few days in Chittenden County, Vermont, to learn what the new craft-beer scene is brewing . . .

Beercation: Grand Rapids, Michigan

Whether you’re drinking beer to make the long, cold winter bearable, or enjoying a pint on a patio on a warm summer day, these are the spots that have helped this Michigan city earn the name “Beer City USA.”

We Recommend: Great Beer Bars in South Carolina, Massachusetts, and Belgium

Here are the three beer bars that we explored in Issue 19 (June/July 2017) of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®.

Beercation: Atlanta, Georgia

Despite laws on the books that make it tough to get into and stay in the craft-beer business, a new generation of dedicated brewers is destroying old stereotypes and redefining Atlanta from beer backwater to craft trendsetter.
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