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This style-spanning yearly celebration of the harvest is brewed in many ways and in many places—but the best place in the world to appreciate fresh-hopped beers is the Pacific Northwest.

Seattle’s Floodland Brewing may be hyper-focused on saison, but its founder’s broad love of beer inspired this collection of favorites that span modern interpretations of lager, pale ale, cask ale, and—of course—saison.

Great for summertime cookouts, the star of these burgers is a tangy sauce infused with a Belgian-style dark ale.

Boréale is a household name among Quebec craft-beer drinkers—its ads even appear on Montreal bus stops—but that weight of history took a turn nine years ago with an experiment in hazy IPA. Today, the innovation continues as the brewery’s nonalcoholic beers are some of the biggest sellers in the province.

With a gluten-free grist of 100 percent rice malt, this homebrew recipe comes from Jim Eckert, the rice-malting pioneer who founded Eckert Malting & Brewing in Chico, California.

For this special episode, we’ve partnered with our friends at Abstrax to bring you a panel discussion on using terpenes, extracts, and more, featuring Tyler Thurman of Highland Park, Jude LaRose of Hop Butcher for the World, and Ross Hunsinger of Abstrax.

Write it down! Kevin Templin, cofounder and head brewer at Templin Family Brewing in Salt Lake City, explains how they fine-tune the tiniest details using a dialed-in sensory panel—and why it’s critical to take notes.

Think stainless steel is maintenance-free? Think again. Over time, your brewing equipment can corrode and compromise flavor—even if it looks spotless. Learn how passivation—a simple but essential chemical process—protects your tanks, improves cleaning, and keeps your beer tasting its best. Discover which method is right for your brewery and how to do it safely with Five Star products.

New research points toward much greater potential for rice malt in brewing—with varieties that provide color, character, and brewing specs that aren’t so different from barley.

From BreWskey in Montreal, this hazy double IPA leans into lushly fruit-forward Rakau and Riwaka hops, with a varied grist meant to promote haze with the lightest possible color.

Credited by fellow brewers in Montreal as an early lager proponent, Jean-Phillippe Lalonde has been cold-fermenting craft beer for the better part of 15 years. And while he’s no dogmatic traditionalist, there are lines he just won’t cross.

In this partner podcast brought to you interruption-free by Miura Boiler, we dig into hot-side design and optimization to understand how small design decisions have big downstream impacts.

Strict attention to quality throughout the brewhouse, whatever the type of beer, can only help you in competitions—as can thinking ahead on maturation and carbonation. Kevin Templin, cofounder and head brewer at Templin Family Brewing in Salt Lake City, shares some key tips on how to improve your odds.

Founded in British Columbia’s Okanagan Valley in 1992, Gambrinus Malting produces Canada’s Finest Specialty Malt. Situated among the Monashee Mountains, Gambrinus sources barley, wheat, and rye to produce flavorful, consistent malt for award-winning brewers and distillers across North America. The man behind the malting operation is director of operations Ken Smith. “What I get to focus on here,” he says, “is making sure that everyone is safe, that the food product is safe, and that we’re not impacting the environment in a negative way.” Keep reading for more!

Growth in 2025 doesn’t look like it used to. In this webinar, we’ll explore what it takes—from SKU discipline to data visibility—to expand with confidence in today’s market.

In centuries past, much of European brewing happened on the farm—and the choice of what to brew was as pragmatic as what to grow. With insights that could inform your next farmhouse ale, Lars Marius Garshol shares some truths about what those farmer-brewers planted, malted, and put into their beers.

Based on a description from Norway in the late 18th century, this recipe represents the practicality of local farmers at the time—and the grist is 100 percent oats, which would’ve been malted in a smoky kiln.

From their farm, brewery, and taproom/farmstand an hour north of Montreal, Macallen is integrating agriculture with beer across multiple dimensions—not just for the story, but in pursuit of great flavor.

This award-winning Northwest IPA is a flagship for Von Ebert in Portland, Oregon, with a berry-forward hop flavor driven by lots of Mosaic, plus Simcoe and Strata in the dry hop.

Embracing whole-leaf hops at Templin Family means stuffing them into huge game bags from the hunting store and adding them to the whirlpool. Kevin Templin, cofounder and head brewer, explains their approach to emphasizing that delicate Noble-hop aroma.