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Best in Beer 2024 Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Beer Cities

Here are the best cities in the United States and around the world for drinking great beer in 2024—according to you, our readers.

Gut Check: Gauging the Potential of Probiotic Beer

Functional beverages—those that claim a positive effect, usually health-related—are booming. It’s a challenging area for beer, legally and scientifically, but could gut-friendly, probiotic beers win people over?

Recipe: Templin Granary Kellerbier

Kevin Templin, cofounder and head brewer at Templin Family in Salt Lake City, shares this recipe for their GABF medal-winner that also became one of our Best 20 Beers in 2023.

Podcast Episode 387: Best in Beer 2024 Special with Jamie Bogner and Joe Stange

Hear the stories behind the stories, as Jamie and Joe share your Readers’ Choice picks for favorites of the year, and as they reveal and discuss Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2024.

The Best 20 Beers in 2024

A year of focused tasting panels plus two full days of blind judging and lively discussion among our editorial panel—including Kate Bernot and Stan Hieronymus—culminates in this: the roll of honor. Here are the 20 beers that awed, delighted, and inspired us the most, representing the pinnacle of the craft today.

Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2024

You voted, and we tallied. Here are your favorite breweries broken down in categories by beer barrels brewed.

Best in Beer 2024 Readers’ Choice: Who Brews It Best?

The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft beer niches. 2023 rank is noted in parentheses.

Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Top 25 Beers of 2024

Which beers do you love the most? We polled thousands of our magazine and newsletter subscribers on their favorites, and here are the results.

Recipe: Big Friendly Oil Boom

Oklahoma City’s Big Friendly is a two-time Brewery of the Year at the Great American Beer Festival, in 2022 and 2023. Here’s a recipe for the imperial stout—no adjuncts, not yet barrel-aged—that serves as the base for Vanilla Boom, one of our Best 20 Beers in 2024.

Recipe: pFriem Japanese Lager

This crisp and dry Japanese-inspired lager is brewed with rice and hopped with Perle, Tettnanger, and Saphir. pFriem Family Brewers describes it as having aromas of “Shiso plum, fresh bread, and violet” with “sparkling notes of fresh green tea and wildflowers.”