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Breakout Brewer: Root Down

Award-winning Root Down Brewing in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, is balancing reverence for the classics with excitement for evolving styles.

Style School: Strong Scottish Ale

Overlooked and misunderstood, the ale a French scientist once called “the strongest and best beer made in Great Britain” deserves a closer look.

Best in Beer 2019 Readers' Choice: Favorite Ingredients & Beer Styles

For our annual Best in Beer survey, we asked thousands of you what brewing ingredients you prefer to use, and what types of beer you like to brew (and drink). Here's what you told us.

Best in Beer 2019 Readers' Choice: Who Brews It Best?

For our Best in Beer 2019 issue, we asked for your favorite brewers of eight different styles of beer. Here are the results.

Pick Six: Henry Nguyen of Monkish, on Familiarity and Mystery

Monkish Brewing co-founder Henry Nguyen offers up this sixer of beers that have made a mark on his brewing journey.

Recipe: Chapman Crafted Pilsner

Here’s a lighter-side pils that is crisp, dry, and quenching.

Finding the Right Yeast to Create Hazy IPAs

When you’re turning out New England–style IPAs and pale ales, you need a workhorse of a yeast. The head brewer of Tin Roof Brewing Co. has found one, and the medals his beers rack up (including Great American Beer Festival gold) show that it’s working.

English Old Ale: The Original Barrel-Aged Beers

Old ales have a flavor profile that many younger drinkers, currently rapt with barrel-aged stouts, might love, says Jeff Alworth, thanks to complexity, acidity, and gentle sweetness that make them very contemporary.

Bearded Iris Brewing Chasing Rainbows IPA Recipe

From Bearded Iris Brewing (Nashville, Tennessee), here’s a Pilsner-based IPA that uses Columbus hops extract, Mosaic and Simcoe Cryo, and Galaxy, Mosaic, and Motueka hops.

Talking About Carbonation in Beer (Video Tip)

English-style beers are often lower in carbonation than other styles. In this video tip learn about volumes of CO2 and why it matters.