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These chocolate delights feature craft beer on the plate as well as in the glass.

A few commercial hopbacks are available for homebrewers, (e.g., the Blichmann HopRocket). These work perfectly well, but there’s nothing stopping you from making your own. Here’s how.

Summery fruits such as watermelon, cantaloupe, and cucumber have found their way into beer. We share some of our favorites here!

There are a number of ways to use coconut in your brewing. Learn to choose the right type of flavor, how to prepare it, and how to brew with it!

SMaSH (Single Malt and Single Hops) beers provide a great opportunity to understand the characteristics of your ingredients.

Brew the beer you love to drink the most using the same yeast.

Kellerbier is a beer that merges the best of British cask ale with German malts and hops in a unique lager style. You can learn to make one here!

Munich toasty richness meets a nice dose of spicy Opal hops character. Refreshing meets alcoholic?

Pair this hoppy beer bread with your favorite soup or salad.

By learning how to make and use a hops tea, you can greatly enhance the hops flavors in your beer. We have a quick and dirty guide to show you the ropes.

If we think of modern beer style guides as canonical coloring books for grownups, then saison is the devil on our shoulders inviting us to venture outside the lines and use all the crayons in the box. Here’s a guide to this playful style.

So it’s warm out, and you’re itching to brew a summer beer with a super-dry finish that begs for another refill? Instead of bumping up the simple sugar adjuncts in the recipe, try a step mash.

Wondering what to do with a multi-gallon batch of oops? Here are some tasty and practical solutions.

Here's a full-strength American wheat beer with a light citrus touch.

The English mild is a great test of your skills as a brewer and requires a great deal of balance to make it work.

Enjoy these beer and coffee pairings side by side or even blended together.

If you want to build a carboy carrier yourself, there are several different approaches that you can follow. Here, we show you how to convert a large malt bucket, and—as a bonus—how to build a carboy dolly.

From humble English roots to the hoppy American version, pale ale has been a standard bearer for the craft-beer revolution for decades. Here, five craft brewers pick their favorites.

Has your brew day been reduced to a few hours, leaving you to opt for efficiency over precision in your brewing? Based on his experience, Eric Reinsvold offers you some “expert” tips on avoiding some of the pitfalls of this approach.

If you’re ready to put your beer-making kit to the test and see what it can really do, try our kit-scale recipe.