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To preserve the volatile oils in hops, you need to steep hops at a temperature below boiling. That’s where whirlpool hops additions come into play.

Interested in upgrading your fermentation system? One of our editors took the Ss Brewtech Chronical Fermenter, the FTSs Temp Control for Chronical, and the Brew Bucket, and shared her experience.

Purists beware: this CB&B recipe might offend your delicate sensibilities. However, if you want to make the quickest of quick sour beers, using fruit can help cover some of the rougher edges in a spiked lactic sour.

This Hanukkah, we have 8 crazy-flavorful beer and food pairings that you must try!

For our first-annual Best in Beer issue, we asked you about your favorite beer writers and glassware, trends you think will last, how you drink, and how much you drink.

In this variation of the pride of the Midwest, we combine aged Gouda with a Belgian-style tripel.

In Josh Weikert’s mind, altbier is the perfect beer. Not “the best beer you’ll ever have” kind of perfect, but the “lets you taste and enjoy every aspect of what beer is” kind of perfect.

Taylor Caron’s beer makes a great base for adding fruit or heavy dry hopping, but it is also very refreshing on its own.

For Patrick Murtaugh and Eric McKay, the co-owners of Hardywood Park Craft Brewery, it’s all about relationships as they strive to incorporate local ingredients into their beers.

Crispy on the outside, light, fluffy, and flavored with banana and wheat beer—these are incredible (and incredibly easy) pancakes.

You can brew 15 gallons (57 l) with a 10-gallon (38 l) brew system by taking a few different approaches. Longtime homebrewer Jester Goldman walks you through some ideas and weighs pros and cons.

Prepare to read the words roasty, chocolate, and coffee more than once.

An earlier version of this Berliner weisse recipe from Josh Weikert won Best of Show at the 2nd Annual Stoney Creek Homebrewers Amateur Brewing Championship.

Lautering is the process of separating sweet wort from mashed grain.

Sour beer and a pinch of cayenne spice up the lobster salad for these classic lobster rolls.

The results are in! We have the results of The Best in Beer 2016: Homebrewers' Picks, where you can check out hombrewing trends, favorite gear, and more!

For Enchanted Circle Brewing’s, Kyle-Bartholemew Yonan, hops harvest is time to hit the trails and canyons of New Mexico to forage for cones of the native Neomexicanus. Here’s the recipe for the ale he brewed up with this year’s batch.

With the strong belief that local breweries play an important role in their communities, the founders of Other Half Brewing are filling a craft-beer void in New York City.

No campfire needed! A fruit-forward IPA adds lightness to this grown-up version of the classic campfire treat.

Homebrewing can sometimes seem like an exercise in crisis management, but armed with the know-how to diagnose your recipe and equipment malfunctions, you can take control of your process.