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Podcast Episode 238: Laura Burns of Omega Yeast Offers an Expert Approach to Stable Beer Haze

The R&D director of the Chicago-based yeast purveyors combines her brewhouse experience with years of lab work in yeast genetics to help brewers understand how yeast does—and doesn’t—create stable haze.

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Recipe: Foam Like Clockwork

Courtesy of the team at Foam Brewers, this homebrew-scale recipe is for one of their first double IPAs to enter their regular rotation for can releases.

Clean Gear, Clean Beer: How to Properly Clean and Maintain Your Kit for Optimal Performance

Attention, glorified janitors! Here are tips on how to work smarter (not necessarily harder) to streamline and refine your cleaning, so you can get back to brewing (better) beer, more quickly.

Video Tip: The Supporting Roles of Hops & Yeast in a Munich-Style Helles

They’re not the stars of the show, but there are important considerations for hops and yeast selection when brewing a Munich-style helles. Altstadt head brewer Craig Rowan shares his recipe advice.

Automated Measurement Isn’t Anti-Craft—It’s Craft Brewing’s Secret Weapon

At-line analytical tools can be a huge asset for smaller-scale breweries. Here’s how.

Breakout Brewer: Foam in Vermont Is Focused on Local Ingredients and a Quality Drinking Experience

After collective decades in beer, the team behind Foam Brewers are running their own show—and drinkers are seeking them out. “We never promoted anything; we just delivered,” says brewmaster Todd Haire. “If that travels by word of mouth, then that’s cool.”

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Video Course: Old-Fashioned Lagers and Smoked Beers with Live Oak

Are you ready for this one, lager nerds? In this discursive but detailed video course, Live Oak founder Chip McElroy and head brewer Dusan Kwiatkowski talk smoked beers, pre-Prohibition lager, cereal mashes, decoctions, and much more.

Podcast Episode 237: Less is More for Surly’s Ben Smith, Pursuing Bigger Hop Flavor in Hazy IPA and Refined West Coast IPA

Minnesota’s Surly Brewing has a reputation for brash and unapologetic beers, but head brewer Ben Smith is exploring ways to maximize flavor in IPAs by doing less, not more.

Five on Five: Belgian Beers, as Chosen by the Pros

We asked five brewing pros about their most beloved Belgian beers—any style, as long as it’s made in Belgium. Here’s what they recommend.

Metamodern Tastes in Country Beer, Part I: Eik & Tid

In various places around the world, brewers are choosing to limit their choices and root their beer in its place. In the first part of a triptych, here’s a look at Norway’s Eik & Tid and its kveik-fermented, oak-aged, mixed-culture raw ales.