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November 26 is National Cake Day, and we have some amazing beer-enhanced cake recipes!

We help you identify some beer styles that match, enhance, or confound that fridge full of fun that you faced this morning.

Two very important parts of your brew day will help ensure consistent results from batch to batch: using accurate temperature measurement equipment and establishing a cleaning routine. Joe Fisher, brewmaster at Man Skirt Brewing, shares his advice.

Celebrate National Cake Day (November 26) this year with seven cake-inspired beers.

Extract kits can be a bit maligned in the homebrew community, but before you disregard them completely, take a look at why we think they can be pretty great.

In 2005, there were 1,395 craft breweries located in the US. Fast forward to 2015 and that number exploded to 4,269.

Not only is basil extremely aromatic, but it also lends both a spicy edge and a sweet finish to beer—hops-like without the extra bitterness

Seriously consider brewing an IPA for one of your first batches of homebrew.

From your reader picks to our tightly curated (and much argued-over) editors’ picks for the year, we’ve left no stone unturned in bringing you the absolute best in the world of beer this year.

The southern English brown ale is a sweet beer and big on flavor, with a sessionable ABV. Josh Weikert discusses his favorite techniques for brewing the best southern English brown ever.

Jeremy Myers, head brewer and co-owner of Neshaminy Creek Brewing Company (Croydon, Massachusetts) notes that there are no brewing salts added for mash pH adjustment. This recipe follows the Reinheitsgebot, so he uses acidulated malt.

Consider 4 aspects before you decide to put a bottle of barrel-aged beer in the cellar.

Dried cherries and a dark lager create a rich tangy and sweet panzanella that pairs perfectly with the crispy grilled chicken.

Doubling up to a 10-gallon (38 l) brew system doesn’t take twice the effort, but it does require a few tweaks to your fermentation and packaging processes. Longtime homebrewer Jester Goldman has some advice for getting the mix just right.

When building your home draft system, it’s important to know the differences between the various types of keg on the market. Joe Fisher, the brewmaster of Man Skirt Brewing explains the pros and cons.

From first thing in the morning to the last thing at night, a perfect beer for every moment of Thanksgiving Day.

A recent collaboration brew between Wolves & People farmhouse brewery and lager brewers Heater Allen offered the opportunity to try partnering homegrown wild yeast with a lager strain to produce a mixed-fermentation lager.

After saving the awesome yeast from his Start It Up! American light lager, Taylor Caron uses the yeast to brew this overly hoppy German Pils with something of a hybrid Bavarian malt bill and zealous Northern hops bill.

Draft lines are easy to clean, and there’s no reason to not just do it as soon as the keg kicks.

Craft-beer pioneers Kim Jordan and Carol Stoudt have led women back into the brewhouse after an absence lasting several centuries. Here Tara Nurin spotlights some of the others who have helped along the way.