Craig Sauers

In one of the world’s most revered wine cultures, craft brewers have developed their own way of working with grapes.

• Style School

As a way to illustrate the methods that go into one of the world’s oldest surviving brewing traditions—including wind-dried malt, foraged hops, and a boiled mash—here’s a recipe for aludi, the farmhouse ale from Georgia’s highlands.

• Beer Recipe
• Traditional Ale
• Historical Beer

In the mountains of eastern Georgia, a rare type of farmhouse beer represents a centuries-old tradition that survives.

• Aludi
• Farmhouse Ale
• Traditional Beer