Josh Weikert

Josh Weikert


Make Your Best English Porter

English Porter is one of the oldest continually-produced styles of beer in the world, dating in its current form back to at least the early 18th century. Here’s how to create this interesting (but never overpowering) drinking experience.

The Art of Tart: The Many Ways (Both Quick and Slow) to Make Sour Beer

Josh Weikert gets you started up the sour-beer mountain with a discussion of the basics of bugs, traditional and modern, and fast and slow ways of souring your beer, and how to bring your sours (stylistically) into the twenty-first century.

Make Your Best American Wheat Beer

The American wheat ale is one of the newest styles of wheats, and is closer in style to the American pale ale than a German weissbier. Josh Weikert explains the ingredients and processes that make this beer unique.

Sour Ostseekuste Porter Recipe

This Baltic porter that has been a consistent winner for Josh Weikert over the years. It sets up well as a kettle sour because the bright lactic acidity will pair very nicely with the dark fruit and chocolate flavors.

Make Your Best Altbier

In Josh Weikert’s mind, altbier is the perfect beer. Not “the best beer you’ll ever have” kind of perfect, but the “lets you taste and enjoy every aspect of what beer is” kind of perfect.

Scared Sour Berliner Weisse Recipe

An earlier version of this Berliner weisse recipe from Josh Weikert won Best of Show at the 2nd Annual Stoney Creek Homebrewers Amateur Brewing Championship.

Make Your Best Vienna Lager

The best examples of Vienna Lager are like drinking a liquid version of dry toast. Here, Josh Weikert shows you how to brew one that delivers toasty malt flavors with a dry and clean background.

A Czech, a German, and an American Walk into a Bar: Pilsners in Context

Thanks to a few drain-poured barrels of bad ale, Pilsners were born and became the most popular beer style in the world, showcasing the flavor potential of hops long before the first IPAs came on the scene, but giving brewers no place to hide faults.

Best Pairings: Beer and Thanksgiving Leftovers

We help you identify some beer styles that match, enhance, or confound that fridge full of fun that you faced this morning.

Make Your Best Southern English Brown

The southern English brown ale is a sweet beer and big on flavor, with a sessionable ABV. Josh Weikert discusses his favorite techniques for brewing the best southern English brown ever.