Recipe: Encampment American Strong Ale
A classic style in the modern American pantheon, this hop-and-malt-forward strong ale serves as a great starting point for experimentation—for example, by subbing in your favorite hop varieties.
Feb 5, 2026
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Recipe: Peaceful Side Solveza Mexican-Style Lager
“Brewed as an ode to the sun,” this light, crisp, subtly sweet Mexican-inspired lager from Peaceful Side in Maryville, Tennessee, won the gold medal for International Light Lager at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
Feb 5, 2026
Recipe: Peoples Bock
Based on details shared by the former lead brewer at Peoples Brewing in Oshkosh, Wisconsin, this mid-20th century American bock gets its color from a darker caramel Munich malt—not from the syrups that were common in dark adjunct lagers from that time.
Feb 2, 2026
Recipe: Bluejacket Common People
This modern take on a Kentucky common comes from a collaboration between Bluejacket and DC Beer, a website that’s been covering the Washington, D.C., beer scene for more than a decade.
Jan 29, 2026
Recipe: Cloudburst Peaked in High School
From Cloudburst founder-brewer Steve Luke, here’s a homebrew recipe for the West Coast double red that won gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
Jan 28, 2026
Recipe: Good Word Riding Bikes in Munich Helles
On his two-vessel brewhouse in Duluth, Georgia, Good Word owner-brewer Todd DiMatteo hand-lugs buckets full of mash to make his decoction happen for their house helles—a process that he says is worth the effort.
Jan 25, 2026
Recipe: Oxbow Pastoral Saison
There are many interpretations of modern saison. This one, from Oxbow in Newcastle, Maine, features local grains and multiple strains of yeast and bacteria—gently tart and funky, and highly drinkable.
Jan 22, 2026
Recipe: Vine Street Vines on Vine IPA
From Vine Street Brewing in Kansas City, Missouri, comes this juicy IPA that features a tropical aroma with notes of citrus and white grape.
Jan 19, 2026
Recipe: Trappistes Rochefort 10
Based on discussions with Rochefort brewmaster Gumer Santos, here’s a homebrew-scale recipe inspired by the Trappist abbey’s strongest dark ale—with notes on how to adjust the recipe to approximate the 6 or 8.
Jan 13, 2026
Recipe: Schilling Hoosier Bock
Justin Slotnick, production manager at Schilling Beer in Littleton, New Hampshire, shares this recipe for their dark bock inspired by the industrial American tradition—but updated to use today’s old-fashioned craft malts.
Jan 6, 2026
Recipe: Northbound Doppelbock... and Eisbock
From Northbound Smokehouse & Brewpub in Minneapolis, here’s a recipe for their Doppelbock that won gold at the 2024 World Beer Cup—and that beer also was the basis for their Eisbock, which won gold at the Great American Beer Festival in 2024 and 2025.
Dec 29, 2025
Recipe: Rudolph’s Reindeer Red Rye Amber Ale
This beer began as an attempt to brew something with a properly reddish hue for the holidays—but it serves just as well as an exploration of earthy rye and malty depth with a firm, spicy bitterness.
Dec 25, 2025
Recipe: Pinthouse Electric Jellyfish 2026
From Austin’s Pinthouse, here’s an updated recipe for their core hazy IPA, Electric Jellyfish—the beer that Craft Beer & Brewing readers named their No. 1 beer of 2025.
Dec 18, 2025
Recipe: Burning Bush St. Basil Amber Ale
From Chicago’s Burning Bush Brewery, this amber ale includes two types of basil grown right there on their patio next to the Chicago River.
Dec 16, 2025
Recipe: Scratch 131
From Scratch in Ava, Illinois, this saison recipe features 131 ingredients, all told—their use informed by deep expertise in what to forage, what to grow, and how the different components can safely be used to contribute worthwhile flavors to beer.
Dec 9, 2025
Recipe: Zoiglbier nach Oberpfälzer Art
“There is no recipe for the real zoigl,” says brewer Reinhard Fütterer of the Schafferhof-Zoigl pub in Neuhaus. “Everyone has their own—that’s one of the things that make it so special.”
Dec 4, 2025
Recipe: Wayfinder La Magie French-Style Pilsner
Natalie Rose Baldwin, brewmaster of Wayfinder Beer in Portland, Oregon, shares this recipe for a French-inspired pilsner that features a kiss of spelt and plenty of floral, spicy Alsatian Strisselspalt hops to drive the flavor.
Nov 24, 2025
Recipe: Corn Coast Share the Stoke
From Corn Coast Brewing in Lincoln, Nebraska, here’s a recipe for the West Coast–style pils that we named one of our Best 20 Beers in 2025.
Nov 19, 2025
Recipe: Pinta Barrel Liberty
From Pinta Barrel Brewing in Wieprz, Poland, here’s a recipe for their barrel-aged imperial stout with vanilla, coconut, and barrel-aged coffee—a richly layered treat that beat out many others to become one of our Best 20 Beers in 2025.
Nov 19, 2025
Recipe: El Segundo Crowner Kölsch
From El Segundo Brewing in Los Angeles, here’s a recipe for the impeccable Kölsch that the editorial team at Craft Beer & Brewing named one of their Best 20 Beers in 2025.
Nov 18, 2025
Recipe: Fast Fashion Crop Top Pilsner
From Seattle’s Fast Fashion, here’s a recipe for the German-style pilsner that we named one of our Best 20 Beers in 2025.
Nov 18, 2025
Recipe: Randy’s Buckapound Spiced Winter Warmer
This rich amber ale, featuring layers of roasted orange spice mingling with hops, is a vamp on the English winter warmers that are stronger, darker, and toastier than pale ales or bitters.
Nov 11, 2025
Recipe: Simply Dark Lager
This international-style dark lager works well on its own as an easy-drinking crowd-pleaser—but it also works well as a relatively base for fruit or other flavor additions.
Nov 2, 2025
Recipe: Offset Gooding Farms IPA
From Offset Bier in Park City, Utah, this session-strength IPA—which features the new public hop, Vera—is fresh off a gold-medal win at the Great American Beer Festival.
Oct 30, 2025
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