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Podcast Episode 168: Andrew Bell of Radiant Beer Opens Up on Ingredient Successes and Failures

While heading the innovation side of The Bruery, Andrew Bell developed as many as 300 different recipes per year. Now, as director of brewing for newly opened Radiant Beer, he’s building a new brewery identity from the ground up.

Love Handles: The Brick Store of Decatur, Georgia

From our Love Handles department featuring top beer bars around the world, here is an ambitious, atmospheric must-do for any beer enthusiast visiting the Atlanta area. (Speaking of ambitious—here’s to sketching out those post-pandemic travel plans.)

Craft Malt: Choose Your Terroir

These craft maltsters from across the country work with online retailers, making it possible for homebrewers to have a wide variety of unique malts sent straight to their doorsteps.

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Recipe: Private Press Base Imperial Stout

At his Private Press blendery in Santa Cruz, California, Brad Clark specializes in barrel-aging high-gravity stouts and barleywines. Here is a homebrew-scale recipe for a big-bodied Private Press imperial stout meant for barrel-aging and blending.

Bulk Up! Building Beers with Bigger Body

Brad Clark, founder of Private Press Brewing in Santa Cruz, California, gained notoriety for his big stouts while head brewer at Jackie O’s in Ohio. Here, he discusses his approach to bodybuilding for those beefy black beers.

Recipe: Modular Craft Seltzer

Here’s a basic recipe for homebrewed hard seltzer—a blank canvas for an infinite variety of flavorings.

Hard Seltzer: We Can Do This the Easy Way, or We Can Do It the Hard Way

Hard seltzer isn’t hard to make—unless you want to do it well. Like all the pro brewers across the country who went from turning up their noses at the stuff to embracing its popularity, you too can do the same crowd-pleasing 180° in your home brewery.

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Recipe: 2nd Shift Brewing Sunny Cat

From 2nd Shift Brewing in St. Louis, this brightly flavored, easygoing hazy IPA—which crushed it in our blind panel reviews—gets its fruit character from citrus-forward hops and a hefty dose of tangerine peel.

Video Tip: The Why of Weizen

In this clip from his video course on how to brew traditional Bavarian-style weissbier, Bluejacket head brewer Ro Guenzel explains the monikers and origins of the style.

More of the Flavors We Love: Fruited & Spiced IPAs

Hops can smell like other foods because they share many of the same aroma compounds. Here is Randy Mosher on how to boost your IPAs with ingredients that have those sought-after traits.