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Recipe: Third Eye Astral Chocolate Stout

From Kelly Montgomery, co-owner and head brewer of Cincinnati’s Third Eye—a frequent medal-winner for their stouts—this richly layered recipe includes a range of flavorful dark malts plus additions of lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

Recipe: Third Eye Lil Astral Chocolate Oatmeal Stout

From Kelly Montgomery and his team at Third Eye Brewing in Cincinnati, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe for a full-bodied stout from their medal-winning program. Lil Astral features oats, lactose, cacao nibs, and vanilla.

Podcast Episode 396: Matt Manthe, Formerly of Odd Breed, Is Drawn to Doing the Hard Things

Drawn to the challenges of complex fermentations, this microbiology major and VLB-trained brewer continues to apply the lesson’s he’s learned about yeast selection, hop load, acidification, Brett acclimation, and more—lessons that could be valuable to any brewer working with mixed cultures.

Recipe: Marble Manchester Bitter

From Marble Beers in Manchester, England, here’s what head of production Joe Ince describes as “a lighter, hoppier bitter, northern in style.”

Recipe: Tim Sciascia’s NA West Coast IPA

Brewing a tasty nonalcoholic beer is dramatically different from brewing one of normal strength—but this recipe provides a great jumping-off point for making something pleasurably hoppy but without the alcohol.

Recipe: Tim Sciascia’s NA Light “Lager”

Drinkers who are familiar with American light lager will be impressed by this crisp nonalcoholic version. Even more amazing, nonalcoholic beer production’s shortened fermentation can move this “lager” from grain to glass in as little as one week.

Nonalcoholic Brewing Best Practices

Former Kona and Cellarmaker brewmasters have created the following guide to give you an advantage in a booming NA market.

Cask Bitter, Refreshed for the 21st Century

Today’s British brewers are melding traditional cask bitter with brighter, modern hopping for a crushable alchemy greater than the sum of its parts. Will the rest of us ever catch on?

We’ll See You at Ansari’s in Minnesota for Shish Kabobs, Belly Dancing, and Great Beer

From our Love Handles files on the world’s great beer bars: Just south of the Twin Cities, Ansari’s offers some of the country’s finest craft beers with Mediterranean food, pull-tabs, hookahs, and other diversions.

Podcast Episode 395: For Marcin Chmielarz, Baltic Porter Day Is Every Day

The expert, brewer, and publican who helped to elevate Poland’s true national beer style—porter—dives into the style and its modern evolution from a local perspective, also telling the story behind the special day he conceived nearly a decade ago.