Josh Weikert

It’s the second-largest ingredient in your beer by weight, and yet many brewers are content to keep uncritically plugging away at brewing with grains that were bred and designed to satisfy the needs of large breweries. That is beginning to change.

• Malt
• Craft Beer Scene
• Raw Ingredients

Lambics might be easier to get today than they were a generation ago, but they’re still definitely uncommon. Given that, why not brew your own take on the style?

• Beer Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain Recipe

This beer will be smooth in the mouth and features aggressive late and dry hopping, making it more of a “New School” (hence the name) American pale ale.

• Extract Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• American Pale ale

Brewing with extract doesn't mean sacrificing flavor. Rather than going heavy on the chocolate malts, this recipe spreads the wealth and includes healthy additions of light crystal, dark crystal, and more.

• Homebrew Recipe
• Extract Recipe
• Stout

Josh Weikert dispels myths of brewing dogma because “the way it’s always been done” doesn’t always work for you.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Homebrewing
• Rules

This might seem like just another hoppy session beer, but the regionally authentic ingredients do tend to come through even in the face of atypical hops.

• Beer Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain Recipe

While the focus for most homebrewers is brewing all-grain recipes, Josh Weikert argues that it’s not always necessary. You can benefit from having a bit less control (but no loss of quality) and a significant chunk of time back in your brew day.

• Brewing Ingredients
• Homebrewing
• Extracts

Knowing how to build a recipe for fractional distillation, how to use the process, and how to make a style into an “Ice Whatever” is a great tool to have in your bag.

• Make Your Best
• Ice Beer
• All Grain Recipe

There is a distinct challenge in brewing gose: salt. Working with salt introduces higher stakes. Aim too high, and you end up with an undrinkable salt bomb. Too low, and you can’t register the salt at all. This recipe will get you right in the ballpark.

• Make Your Best
• Gose
• All Grain Recipe

The White IPA functionally updates a classic style in a way that emphasizes the regional particulars of the original beer while incorporating updated ingredients.

• Beer Recipe
• Homebrew Recipe
• All Grain Recipe

It’s time to consider the evolution of Trappist beers in the New World. As the American craft-beer movement engages with and develops Trappist styles, it is also keeping some Trappist brewing traditions alive.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Trappist
• Brewing Recipes

Candi sugars are at once an underused and an overused ingredient. Let's dive into the specific function candi sugars can play in beer.

• Craft Beer Scene
• Candi Sugar
• Belgian Beer