Great Taste Without Gluten (April-May 2015)

This mead’s light sweetness can mask minor off-flavors, making it a great starter style.

In part 2 of his mead series, Kyle Byerly covers the process of making mead.

Try this clean and crisp pilsner with a spicy hops aroma and flavor, now updated with a gluten-reduced option.

This medium-sweet mead has black raspberry puree added when fermentation begins to slow. Start now because it needs to bottle-age for several years.

Consider 4 aspects before you decide to put a bottle of barrel-aged beer in the cellar.

Craft-beer pioneers Kim Jordan and Carol Stoudt have led women back into the brewhouse after an absence lasting several centuries. Here Tara Nurin spotlights some of the others who have helped along the way.

This easy-to-drink sparkling mead with aroma hops is sure to be a favorite among your beer-drinking friends.

This mead recipe from Mead Maker Frank Golbeck at Golden Coast Mead makes a refreshing and accessible late-summer favorite.

SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hops) beers provide a great opportunity to understand the characteristics of your ingredients.

More and more craft-beer brewers are fermenting their own mead. Kyle Byerly covers everything you need to know about making mead in this 3-part series.

We turned to an accomplished brewer and a sanitation microbiologist to learn the best approach to avoiding contamination in a mixed culture environment.

Here are some favorite mead and food pairings you can try yourself.

Here are our editors’ favorite gluten-free options.

Golden Coast Mead’s CEO and Head Mead Maker Frank Golbeck enjoys the opportunity to specialize based off of local honeys.

Most beer, cider, and mead makers admittedly love gluten, but are excited to recommend some of their favorites without it.

For Brad Dahlhofer at B. Nektar Meadery in Ferndale, Michigan, reading about Papazian’s prickly pear mead was all the motivation he needed.

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Here are 6 tips to help you enjoy sampling and exploring the myriad craft offerings at GABF (or any craft-beer festival).

Craft beer festivals have become a fantastic way to sample and explore the myriad new offerings with friends in a social setting.

Owner David Myers has modeled Boulder, Colorado’s Redstone Meadery production facility after a craft-beer brewery.

Want gluten-free or gluten-reduced beer? Here are the basics you need to know.

Cider and perry are refreshing, civilized, and gaining in popularity. Here are some cider basics and a style guide to ciders.

With apple season upon us, here’s how to make the best cider you can from the juice that you can get.

Jim Koch, Samuel Adams founder and brewer, picks his dream six-pack based on the brewers behind the beers.

Asheville has everything you’d want in a perfect craft-beer town—clean water, endless outdoor activities, and a cool counter-cultural vibe.

Here are the three beer bars that we explored in the “Love Handles” column in Issue 6 (April/May 2015).

Grouse Malting packages their gluten-free malted grain in weights suitable for both home and commercial brewers.

This Bamberg-style smoked red lager is rich and malty with plenty of smoke and a hint of Noble hops aroma and has a gluten-reduced option.

A German-style bock lends a malty counterpoint to briny oysters in these spicy shooters.

This traditional Irish Red ale is a popular pounder, now updated with a gluten-reduced option.

In part 3 of his mead series, Kyle Byerly covers fermentation, aging, bottling, and potential problems you could encounter in your early mead-making adventures.

Like craft beer, mead has many styles and names for those styles. Here are some of the many mead styles that you’ll encounter in your mead-tasting adventures.

These Maibock-enhanced crepes layered with lemon vanilla yogurt and topped with raspberry sauce are sure to be a hit at your next barbeque.

Dry-hopping, wild yeasts, and barrel-aging are all fair game for new-school cider makers.

This refreshing ceviche is made even better with the addition of beer.

This flavorful and complex gluten-free brown ale can stand on its own next to traditional barley-based beers.

Try this delicious seafood dish re-envisioned with saison to add complex layers of flavors.