Recent Articles

If you want to build a carboy carrier yourself, there are several different approaches that you can follow. Here, we show you how to convert a large malt bucket, and—as a bonus—how to build a carboy dolly.

From humble English roots to the hoppy American version, pale ale has been a standard bearer for the craft-beer revolution for decades. Here, five craft brewers pick their favorites.

Has your brew day been reduced to a few hours, leaving you to opt for efficiency over precision in your brewing? Based on his experience, Eric Reinsvold offers you some “expert” tips on avoiding some of the pitfalls of this approach.

If you’re ready to put your beer-making kit to the test and see what it can really do, try our kit-scale recipe.

Ready to deliver dry-hopped goodness to your homebrew?

The “Love Handles” department in Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine® is devoted to great beer bars. Here are the three beer bars that we explored in Issue 13 (June/July 2016).

Brew this spicy sessionable saison (say that fast 3 times!).

Learning when and how to rescue a bad batch—and when to sacrifice it to the beer gods—will save beer and frustration, and will also make you a better brewer.

In less than an hour, you can have this delicious chicken dish that features an apricot-mustard sauce made with your favorite IPA on the table.

Is Untapped an adult version of Pokémon Go? Check out our handheld app showdown here!

Brewing a great stout with coffee, chocolate, and other adjunct ingredients requires recipe tweaks beyond just the ingredients you add.

CB&B co-founder Steve Keonig walks you through a full all-grain brew day, from mashing and lautering to batch sparging to hop additions to pitching yeast and racking to secondary fermentation, as well as bottling your beer!

Learn how to brew a pleasantly complex Belgian Pale Ale, perhaps the least-Belgian of the Belgian styles.

An interview with Jim Koch

Brew this saison that is modeled on Saison Dupont, the definitive example of this beer style.

Counterflow wort chillers cool your boiled wort quickly and with less water than immersion chillers—learn to make your own here!

Round out any meal with this decadent dessert.

Use the continuity test to identify which wire is currently in which block and untangle your wired mess

Call it super, call it double, or call it imperial. After you’ve tried one or two strong saisons, you’ll just call it your new favorite beer.

In the same way a chef can add a touch of cracked peppercorn to open up a dish with added spice and complexity, a brewer can use the same ingredient to achieve the same result.