Beer Recipe


Recipe: Spydeberg Farmhouse Oat Ale 1779

Based on a description from Norway in the late 18th century, this recipe represents the practicality of local farmers at the time—and the grist is 100 percent oats, which would’ve been malted in a smoky kiln.

Recipe: Von Ebert Volatile Substance

This award-winning Northwest IPA is a flagship for Von Ebert in Portland, Oregon, with a berry-forward hop flavor driven by lots of Mosaic, plus Simcoe and Strata in the dry hop.

Recipe: Barrique Fritz Steam Beer

From Barrique Brewing & Blending in Nashville, Tennessee, head brewer Spencer Longhurst shares this recipe from an Anchor Steam–inspired collab brewed with their friends at Von Trapp in Stowe, Vermont.

Recipe: Brewlihan Cucumber-Lime Serum

From Brewlihan in Oakland Park, Florida, here’s a recipe for one of their most popular session-strength meads—packed with fresh cucumber and lime juice, and nearly always found on draft in their taproom.

Recipe: Magnanimous Base Stout

Mike Lukacina, founder and brewer at Magnanimous in Tampa, shares this iteration of the ever-evolving stout they brew especially for aging in whiskey barrels.

Recipe: Revolution Straight Jacket, Deconstructed

The team at Revolution in Chicago blends two threads of barrel-aged barleywine to produce their heralded Straight Jacket. Here’s a recipe for one of those threads, plus all the info you need to make the other one—or to make an unblended version.

Recipe: Annie’s Capitol Corridor Session Porter

From award-winning homebrewer Annie Johnson, this partial-mash recipe for a lightweight porter—at 3.5 percent ABV—demonstrates how you can pack plenty of malt flavor into a low-strength beer.

Recipe: Wooly Pig Zwick’lbier Hoppy Pils

Kevin Ely, brewer and cofounder of the Wooly Pig Farm Brewery in Fresno, Ohio, shares this recipe for his unfiltered German-style pilsner—light, fresh, floral, and subtly malty, with a moderate bitterness. Plus: See the notes for why he prefers an unusually thin mash for this beer.

Recipe: Westphalian Farmhouse Ale

One of the most industrialized parts of Germany has a surprising farmhouse brewing tradition, but information about it is scarce. Based on interviews with surviving farmhouse brewers, conducted in the 1950s by the Folklore Commission of Westphalia, here’s our attempt at a recipe. We also include some variations in the notes below.

Recipe: Hércules Pueblito Export Stout

From Josh Brengle and his team at Cervecera Hércules in Querétaro, Mexico, here’s a recipe for the export stout that won gold at the 2024 World Beer Cup—plus, a method for adding fresh wort at packaging for a beer that lives longer in the bottle, cask, or keg.