The rise and fall of an American brewery. How investment hijinks brought down a brewing empire. Plus: the keys to kräusening — and an Old Style clone recipe.  

Examine and attempt to decode the first written (hopped) beer recipe in England. Brew a beer that will please the historians and perhaps be fit for a king.

This obscure beer style, which is slightly salty and slightly sour, has been brewed for over 1,000 years.

After battling Irish villagers and plundering their valuables, you’re going to want to cool down with a beer, right?

With a little help from some archaeologists, we may all be able to brew and drink the beer that King Tut drank.

Back in the day - we're talking WAY back in the day - beer was brewed with malt, and bread, and honey and wine . . . and just about anything that could be fermented. How the ancients brewed - and how you can too!

A homebrewer goes back in time to brew an authentic American Colonial-style ale. Recipe included!

We're organizing a big trip in 2006 to Europe the Brew Your Own way -- especially for HOMEBREWERS - with opportunities to brew on the road! That’s right - Road Brewing in the places where the styles we love came to be. This Brew Your Own BeerTrip travels to some of the world’s great beer places (the Netherlands, Belgium and Germany) where we drink the beer where it was born!

We have a pretty good idea of what historical IPA was like when it left the docks of England bound for its long journey to India. But what did the beer taste like when it arrived in India after the ocean voyage? Our Style Profile columnist brews to find out a recreation.

After some early failures, malt extract's ship finally comes in during the modern era of homebrewing. Find out how Prohibition, ironically, established malt extract as a useful brewing ingredient. Plus: historical homebrew recipes from Prohibition and the swinging seventies.

Using a handwritten recipe unearthed at an eighteenth-century Virginia plantation, a homebrewer and archaeologist recreated Mrs. Cary's Good Ale, a homemade, all-malt beer from a colonial kitchen.

 American beers, pre and post-Prohibition.  The Wiz knows...

Today’s homebrewer can recreate history with a few basic ingredients and a little imagination

The reputation of homebrewers suffered during the Noble Experiment.

Find out what beer was like in the time of Al Capone. We've got the recipe for his once-illegal brew.