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Pick Six: Cambridge Brewing Company’s Will Meyers

The beers Will Meyers enjoys the most (and most often) reflect his love of flavorful low ABV beers that one can drink in quantity yet express with complexity.

Getting Deep With Malt: More than Sweetness

Recipes for the most intensely malty beer styles—think English barleywine or German doppelbock—may call for kettle caramelization to provide a rich celebration of malt character. Here’s how and when to try it.

Flat Iron Steak with Beer Hollandaise and Heirloom Tomato-Quinoa Salad Recipe

Here’s a great summer meal to grill and enjoy in the backyard.

Brewing Coffee Beers: Using Whole Coffee Beans

Trying to decide between using whole beans or ground coffee? Here are some of the pros and cons.

The IPAs of the Pacific Northwest

We asked five PNW brewers whether they consider “Northwest-style” IPA its own subcategory of the IPA family. Here’s what they had to say.

Gear Test 2017: Brew Kettles

In our 2017 Gear Guide issue (April/May), our editors tested and reviewed a variety of brew kettles. Here are the results.

Red Dawn Raspberry Robust Porter Recipe

Adding raspberries to your porter is a fantastic way to expand your flavor options and test your creativity. Josh Weikert shows you how to make three adjustments to your recipe to account for the additional tartness/astringency from the raspberries.

6 Forms of Hops

Nature gives us hops in only one form—the female cones of the climbing hops plant—but hops growers and processors deliver those hops to brewers in a range of products.

Creative Cidermakers: Taking a Page from the Craft-Beer Story

In the spirit of craft, today’s creative makers are looking both to history and to the playbook developed by craft-beer brewers to make unique and exciting ciders.

Make Your Best Oatmeal Stout

Bring out the Oatmeal Stout when you want a beer that’s not bone dry, not intensely roasty, not saccharine-sweet, and not overly alcoholic—but still clearly a stout. Here’s how to make your best.