Josh Weikert

Josh Weikert


Red Dawn Raspberry Robust Porter Recipe

Adding raspberries to your porter is a fantastic way to expand your flavor options and test your creativity. Josh Weikert shows you how to make three adjustments to your recipe to account for the additional tartness/astringency from the raspberries.

Make Your Best Oatmeal Stout

Bring out the Oatmeal Stout when you want a beer that’s not bone dry, not intensely roasty, not saccharine-sweet, and not overly alcoholic—but still clearly a stout. Here’s how to make your best.

Make Your Best Weizenbock

When brewers ask Josh Weikert what their first “big” beer should be, it isn’t barleywine or Old Ale or double IPA: it’s Weizenbock. Here’s why . . . and how.

Session Stouts: Big Flavor in Small Packages

With just a bit of tweaking, you can produce a range of session stouts that preserve the complexity and interest of their full-strength cousins. Josh Weikert shows you how to maintain body and flavor in a session stout.

Make Your Best American Pale Ale

American Pale Ale should be a beer that drinks easily and highlights its American hops flavors and aromas. Its closest analog isn’t IPA; it’s British Golden Ale, Americanized! Here’s how to brew a great one.

Full Video: Troubleshooting Your Beer

Learn to diagnose, describe, and fix those pesky off flavors!

Fine-Tuning Stouts: It’s All in the Details

Josh Weikert takes you on a tour through three stout-centric areas—balance, mouthfeel, flavor profile—and explores the finer points of stout recipe design to help you get as much out of your stouts as possible.

Make Your Best Strong Scotch Ale

Strong Scotch Ale has some kettle caramelization notes, low hopping levels, some restrained esters, and a rich malty background to balance its high ABV. It’s also a sweet beer, but not too sweet. It’s a tough mark to hit, but you can do it. Here’s how.

JDS Roggenbier Recipe

This roggenbier can be brewed as a more dunkelweizen-inspired beer (with banana and clove and all), or it can be made as a rye-forward lager, and both can be defended as “traditionally” appropriate.

Make Your Best American Barleywine

American barleywine should be a thick, malty, hoppy, bitter, high-alcohol beer. Age adds even more complexity. Josh Weikert guides you through making this challenging style.