Expert interviews, brewing insights, and industry trends.
Colorado’s Prost is no stranger to medal-winning lager. Despite that success, the team went back to the drawing board six months ago, rebuilding its pale lagers with Augustiner yeast and a totally different approach to fermentation.
Gene Wagoner of ISM and Nick Walker of Ology join Tim Sciascia and Nick Harris of Berkeley Yeast for this special episode that explores new research and evolving techniques for creating the right balance of thiols in hoppy beers.
This Nashville brewery’s Barrel-Aged Dyson Sphere stout earned a top score in our malt-focused Spring issue—evidence of the team’s nuanced approach to blending, using a variety of whiskey barrels and with numerous complex recipes designed for specific casks.
Since 2022, Nebraska’s Corn Coast has earned three GABF medals in hotly contested hazy IPA categories that span the strength spectrum—meanwhile landing a Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer trophy for its West Coast pils, Share the Stoke. In this episode, cofounder Will Walter shares their approach.
Over the past eight years, Nebraska’s Kros Strain has won three Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer trophies for three diverse styles: hazy IPA, mixed-culture saison, and barrel-aged barleywine. But cofounder Bobby Kros would rather use flavor than words to tell you why.
Brewers may speak wistfully about rubbing hops at selection—but for Dan Brouillette at Omaha’s Lumen, what stands out in the rub isn’t always the best hop for the beer.
Natalie Rose Baldwin of Wayfinder, Kelly McKnight of New Belgium, and Ashleigh Carter of Bierstadt Lagerhaus discuss the development of their recent collaboration, approaches to ingredients, embracing techniques like cool-pooling, and more.
In this episode, produced in partnership with RahrBSG, we zoom in on process aids in the brewhouse and cellar, from anti-foaming agents and finings to enzymes and more. Joining the conversation are Sam Pecoraro of Von Ebert, Steve Theoharides of Zero Gravity, and Ashton Lewis of RahrBSG.
In this excerpt from our Deep Dive series on nonalcoholic brewing, Chris Lohring of Notch, Shawn Cooper of Halfway Crooks, and Craig Thomas of Abstrax share perspectives on building flavor and body into NA beer.
Double-batching lagers on a single-infusion, seven-barrel brewhouse made from converted dairy tanks may not be wholly unique—but how about striking gold with an American pilsner category that contains no pilsner malt?
Over the span of two decades at Sierra Nevada in R&D and quality, Tom Nielsen helped usher in big changes in the way craft brewers work with ingredient growers and suppliers. In this episode, he shares his finely honed approach to evaluating and sourcing raw materials.
The seven-barrel brewhouse at Fritz Family in Niwot, Colorado, may be be small by typical lager-brewing standards. But founder Cory Buenning takes an exacting approach to the lagers he brews for the cuckoo clock–lined taproom, focusing on malt that produces mid-sized proteins that build body.
For Helper Beer, 2025 was a great year, with a gold medal for German-style pils at GABF and a Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer editors’ pick trophy for Regis helles. But the methods they use for these classical styles—such as cool pooling with heavy whirlpool hop loads—are anything but stuck in the past.
The former CMO and CFO of Revolution and social media commentator looks into the future to share meaningful movements and trends that he expects to gain steam in the coming year.
This Dutch brewer—in a small Belgian enclave surrounded the Netherlands—gives elegant French names to his English barleywines and IPAs after aging them in Italian wine barrels. The results are far from any stereotypes you might have about Belgian beer.
Historical preservation is a funny thing—to save the past, often we need to connect it to the present and find new ways to make it relevant or interesting to modern audiences. That’s the core approach for Oud Beersel, where localized and familiar ingredients bring new drinkers into the world of lambic, oude gueuze, and oude kriek.
An end-of-the-year look at the most-downloaded episodes, with highlights, insights, and soundbites.
The longtime quality director of Duvel Moortgat has scaled way, way down with a community-focused brewery just outside Leuven, but his creative approach to Belgian beer pulls flavors and inspiration from Scandinavia, the Pacific Northwest, and beyond.
Whether or not fruit-smoothie sours are your thing, there’s no denying that Indiana’s 450 North has carved out a reputation for making great ones that tend to be highly sought by beer traders. Sales director (and recipe writer) Stephen Boardman shares their approach to these playful crowd-pleasers that appeal to a nostalgic sense of whimsy.
A federal ban on hemp-derived THC products will take effect in months unless this young, $30 billion industry can find a way forward. Christopher Lackner, meanwhile, is making the case for common-sense rules that build trust in a product that—if properly regulated and produced—is “no big deal.”
Khristopher Johnson of Green Bench, Bob Kunz of Highland Park, and Evan Price of Green Cheek share thoughts on building texture and body, controlling sulfur character, and maximizing hops in West Coast pils.
Andrew Foss of Human Robot, Matt Manthe of Dillon Dam, and Moh Saade of Fermentis discuss pathways to characterful lagers, both classic and modern, through workhorse 34/70 yeast and other strains.
In our annual Best in Beer 2025 critics’ roundtable episode, our editorial team goes beyond the unabashed popularity contest and thorough blind-judging process to share their own personal favorites of the year, connecting the dots to suss out the contours of craft beer’s today and possible tomorrows.
In this once-a-year episode, Jamie Bogner and Joe Stange share Craft Beer & Brewing’s Best 20 Beers in 2025, as selected by our judges and editorial team—plus, the results of our Readers’ Choice survey for best breweries, beer cities, bars, and more.