Josh Weikert

Brewing a great eisbock requires restraint. Keep the recipe simple, and let the freezer do the work.

• Eisbock
• Beer Recipe
• Bock

They’re easy to grow, easy to buy, easy to eat, and we know all their names and flavors by heart... if only brewing with fruits were so simple. Here, then, are bushels of practical advice for designing, choosing, processing, and making your own fruit beer.

• Fruit
• Fruit Beer
• Brewing with Fruit

From his Make Your Best series, here’s Josh Weikert’s recipe for a delicate yet flavorful Scottish-style light ale—including an extract version.

• Beer Recipe
• Scottish Ale
• Session Beer

Partly inspired by Flying Dog’s Numero Uno, this lager has a bready, tortilla-like backbone with some lime-like Motueka hops for a refreshing edge.

• Beer Recipe
• Mexican Lager
• Pale Lager

This recipe has some built-in guardrails, but even if you blow past them and get a brightly acidic beer with lots of oak and a dry finish despite lots of malt flavor, you’ll still have a beer that’s fun to serve and drink and talk about.

• Beer Recipe
• Oud Bruin
• Brown Ale

Attention, busy homebrewers: Here’s a straightforward method for getting three different types of beer out of a single batch on brew day. It’s like the Cerberus of shortcuts... but which styles will you choose?

• Homebrewing
• Tips and Tricks
• Shortcuts

BJCP Grand Master Josh Weikert covers everything you need to know to scale down your full-strength recipe to a more affordable and crushable beer.

• Video
• Full Video
• High Gravity

This English-style bitter recipe is quick to produce, tasty, and ideal for trying out cask ale at home.

• Beer Recipe
• Bitter
• English Ale

You don’t need tall tales or fancy firkins to brew, serve, and enjoy great cask ale at home. Josh Weikert lays out some simple, low-cost methods involving gear you probably already have.

• Cask Ale
• DIY
• British Ale

This strong ale leans into British ingredients and London ale yeast for a robust but elegant brew that also serves ably as a winter warmer.

• Beer Recipe
• Strong Ale

The idea is simple: an IPA that relies on German ingredients—especially the country’s distinctive aroma hops. Does it exist? Yes. Is it rare? Also, yes. Josh Weikert digs into the German and U.S. beer scenes to find out why—and to get the blueprints.

• IPA
• German Hops
• Aroma Hops

Light, gently tart, and smoked—lichtenhainer is an unusual beer, yet surprisingly good for all seasons and one you’ll want to brew and enjoy often.

• Beer Recipe
• Lichtenhainer
• Smoked Beer