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Try culturing up dregs from a favorite mixed-fermentation beer to brew this farmhouse ale, a balanced frame for funky depth.

Denny Foster, founder of Main & Mill Brewing, explains the flexibility you have when deciding how to split up your gravities for a parti-gyle brew day.

Farmhouse brewing is a huge barn, with room for all sorts of creatures. How many of them, though, help you make really drinkable beer? Here, Drew Beechum lays out a path toward restraint.

“Here is a recipe for a typical helles of the sort we like to brew," says John Lenzini, president and head of brewery operations for Schilling Beer. "It gets enough character from the raw materials and process to create both complexity and sessionability.”

In the little town of Littleton, traditional Schilling Beer and its brash Resilience offshoot are deepening their roots.

For the service side of your home brewery or home bar—to get your glasses "beer clean" or carry fresh homebrew on the go—here are our picks from Issue 38.

The last few years have been the best of times and the worst of times for Wyoming-based Melvin Brewing. While the beer has never been better, a series of unforced errors rocked the party atmosphere that the brewery has always striven to project.

From the Love Handles department of our February-March 2020 issue, here are three favorite haunts (and here's to hoping they can all reopen again soon).

Drew Beechum demystifies the chemistry, boiling water down to all you really need to know to make better beer.

Brewing a big beer? Don't let all those leftover sugars go to waste. Get another beer out of that grist! In this video course, the brewers from Main & Mill in Festus, Missouri, demonstrate their method for practical parti-gyle brewing.

Ulrike Genz at Schneeeule makes a variety of beers, but this is the closest thing they have to a flagship and her purest expression of what she believes a traditional Berliner weisse ought to be.

No simple kettle sours, these. In Berlin, Schneeeule is waging a battle to revive a more traditional mixed-fermentation Berliner weisse.

Odell Brewing in Fort Collins, Colorado, is notoriously tight-lipped on recipe and process. But in this hops-forward conversation, COO Brendan McGivney discusses their slow, steady approach to changing their flagship IPA—so that it can stay the same.

The industrial trick of moistening malt just before milling can allow finer grinds—and thus greater efficiency—without stuck mashes. Here’s how to do it at home.

Don’t expect barnyard flavors here: When *Brett* is the sole fermenting agent, the result should be relatively clean.

Barley, hops, water, yeast, and… the cloud?

Here is our review of the new book by Lars Marius Garshol, whose research on traditional kveik, raw beer, and other traditional techniques has shifted the paradigm on farmhouse brewing.

Phil Markowski, cofounder and brewmaster of Two Roads Brewing in Stratford, Connecticut, wrote the book on farmhouse ales. Here he looks back on that influential work, pondering the expanding universe of knowledge about farmhouse brewing.

San Diego’s Societe Brewing has long had a reputation for being brewers’ brewers, with dual-core IPAs expressing different sides of the West Coast coin, and a wild beer program designed around drinkable, funk-forward, lower-acidity beers.

From his Make Your Best series, here is Josh Weikert's not-so-sweet sweet stout, which gets some roast malt and Fuggles hops to balance the milk sugar and add complexity.