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From wet-hopped beers to the freshest possible bottles offered to drinkers to the unquenchable desire to keep refining and keep showing drinkers a new side of hoppy beers, El Segundo Brewing has become L.A.’s premier IPA brewery.

The robust porter is rich in history and flavor. It’s a great style for a beginner or a more advanced brewer who wants to ramp up his/her technical skills…and an excellent base beer to which to add flavor, to boot!

Based on available ingredients, the recipe for this wet-hops lager from Jack’s Abby in Framingham, Massachusetts, changes every year.

Here are five brewers’ odes to Pivo…and (when pressed) some of their other favorite hoppy lagers.

Growing and maintaining a yeast colony, feeding yeast between brews, planning brew days to maximize yeast health.

Learn the ins and outs of adding flavors to your beer. From coffee and spices to chiles and fruit, we'll teach you how to complement malt and hops with flavors that flagrantly violate the Reinheitsgebot.

In Craft Beer & Brewing's Introduction to Lagering video, you'll learn to create crisp, cold-conditioned lagers at home. WIth solid technical advice and temperature control tips, you'll have all the tools you need to brew lagers right the first time.

Come game day, you will love this classic dish, re-imagined with IPA as a key ingredient.

Ovens and dehydrators can be too aggressive when it comes to drying hops. You can easily build your own drying rack instead, and we’ll show you how!

The symbiosis between pro brewers and homebrewers runs deep—both rely on the other to continue to grow and survive. Instead of viewing the homebrewer as competition, pro brewers are happy to lend a helping hand in several ways.

Celebrate National Coffee Day (September 29) with coffee-flavored beers. Our list of coffee-flavored beers runs the gamut of flavors, ranging from sweet to spicy to boozy.

Bourbon-barrel aging (or bourbon-soaked oak cubes) adds layers of complexity to this homebrew-scaled recipe for Avery Brewing’s spiced pumpkin porter.

When your fermentation gets stuck, it pays to have the right tools on hand.

Yeast takes the forefront in this style of beer, but finessing just the right amounts of other additions will make sure that no one flavor steals the show.

Expect hints of citrus, resin, and fruit to flood forward, followed by a piney, earthy complexity in this recipe designed by Jack Harris of Fort George Brewery.

Basil and Pilsner combine for a unique take on the traditional cheesecake.

American brewers interested in making beers that fit under the rather broad umbrella of saison don’t necessarily need to look toward Wallonia. The answer may be in their own backyards.

We’ve put together a list of the 10 most interesting—and tasty—pumpkin beers of 2016. Put on your sweater, dust off your beer koozie, and pour yourself a pint!

Why limit yourself to making candy or other treats this Halloween? Have even more fun with the season by brewing up some of these Halloween candy–inspired brews.

Try this tasty wet-hops harvest ale recipe from Crazy Mountain Brewing Company in Vail, Colorado.