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Ten Breweries to Visit During the 2018 Great American Beer Festival

You’ll get your fill of haze and pastry stouts; hops are everywhere.

The Complex Case of Thiols

Thiols, also known as mercaptans, are sulfur-containing organic compounds with a sulfur atom bound to a hydrogen atom. Thiols make up less than 1% of the essential oils in a hops cone but might hold a key to the fashionable in-demand tropical flavors.

Full Video: How to Brew Great Stouts

Join former Three Four Beer Company, Odell, and Horse & Dragon brewer Linsey Cornish as she walks you through everything you need to know to design and brew great stouts.

Ask the Experts: Should I try to match my water to a particular city for a style of beer or use another method?

Homebrew expert Brad Smith, author of the Beersmith homebrewing software, and the voice behind the Beersmith podcast, answers a question on water profiles.

Breakout Brewer: Highland Park Brewing Co.

With a new tasting room and second location, Highland Park Brewery in Los Angeles can clearly follow two paths: the predictable, more controlled one of beers made in stainless with one yeast strain, and the other path—mixed-culture fermentation.

Podcast Episode #49: Stone's Greg Koch: The Challenge of Keeping the Art in Brewing as the Business Grows

Greg Koch, Executive Chairman and co-founder of Stone Brewing, joins Jamie Bogner for a conversation about their challenge in launching a brewery in a difficult market, their experience launching a distribution business, and much more.

How Breweries Prepared for Hurricane Florence

When a major storm comes ashore, brewers and brewery owners need to prepare for the worst. In the Carolinas, beer professionals have spent the past week preparing for the worst and the eventual aftermath.

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.

Latest Videos >

Full Video: How to Brew Great Stouts

Join former Three Four Beer Company, Odell, and Horse & Dragon brewer Linsey Cornish as she walks you through everything you need to know to design and brew great stouts.

Video Tip: Making Yeast Work for You When Distilling

Stress your yeast in different ways for more interesting characters in your spirits. Learn more about the distilling process in this video tip.

Video: Testing Your Water For Brewing

Testing both your water quality and composition at your brewery site might dictate the kind of filtration equipment you might need. Plus, why measuring pH is so important, no matter the batch size you're making.

Video: Bottle Conditioning with Mixed Fermentation Beers

When bottle conditioning be mindful of THP. Kyle Carbaugh is here to help.

Latest Video Courses >

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.

Brewing Juicy Bits (NE-Style IPAs) with WeldWerks

Join WeldWerks Brewing Cofounder/Brewmaster Neil Fisher as he walks you through everything you need to know to brew one of the highest-acclaimed New England-Style IPAs available. This course includes more than 70 minutes of video.

Beer recipes >

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.

Fremont Brewing's Before Dark Star Oatmeal Stout Recipe

Here’s the recipe for what would later be scaled up to become Dark Star, which would then become Rusty Nail, from Fremont Brewing in Seattle, Washington.

Civil Society Fresh IPA Recipe

This New England–style IPA from Civil Society Brewing Co. got its start as a homebrew recipe by Cofounder Karl Volstad and has become the flagship IPA for the South Florida brewery.

Beer reviews >

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: 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: 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: 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.”

Surprise Hits for Breweries

We talk with brewers from around the country who found increased sales and new fans from beers they never expected to take off.

Cigar City Partners With Great Brands for Initial International Distribution

Amid 70% YTD growth, Cigar City Brewing expands distribution to Sweden and Scandinavia

TRVE Brewing Co Brands Own Distribution Network: High Plains Beer Distribution

TRVE Brewing Company announced the brand launch of its three-year old distribution arm, High Plains Beer Distribution.

Gear That Brewers Can’t Live Without

We asked brewers about the “one piece of brewhouse equipment that you didn’t realize you couldn’t live without that’s become important to your success?” Their answers don't disappoint.

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