Making Beer


Make Your Best Mexican Lager

Brew up this beer now so you’ll have it on hand when the dog days of late July and early August start beating down.

Big Brew-topia

Big Brew occurs every year the first Saturday in May. Jester Goldman explores all the reasons it’s worth packing up your gear to go brew at the event.

Homebrewing Lagers: Chilling Out

Learn how to get your wort chilled and maintain the ideal fermentation temperature to turn out excellent lagers.

10 Essentials for Brew Day

Here are the 10 essentials I like to have at the ready when I brew.

Building An Ingredient Library, Part 1

Homebrewer Josh Weikert covers a general approach to stocking up on grains and hops and runs down the contents and logic of his grain and hops “library.”

Running Down a Dream…of Beer

Having found some Goose Island 2016 Proprietor’s Bourbon County Brand Stout, homebrewer Jester Goldman sets about developing the recipe for his tribute beer.

Cask-Conditioned Ale: Natural Flavor One Pint at a Time

Come along as we explore the naturally carbonated world of cask-conditioned ale.

Make Your Best Sweet (Milk) Stout

Josh Weikert’s “sweet” stout isn’t especially sweet; it just seems sweet, and as a result it’s a beer that can be enjoyed by the pint. Here’s how to make it.

The Quest for a Special Beer

Join homebrewer Jester Goldman as he searches for a bottle of complex barrel-aged stout that inspired him to brew a tribute.

Bugs Gone Wild!

In the right hands, normally unwelcome microflora deliver ales that challenge the senses and stir the soul—quite the accomplishment for creatures we can’t even see.