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Live Video Chat with Drew Beechum & Denny Conn (2022)
View the playback from our October 2022 Q&A with BYO’s “Techniques” columnists Drew and Denny here.
Spiced Beer
Wintertime for homebrewers can often mean high-ABV beers and spiced ales. Get some pointers on adding a little spice to your next brew.
2022 Holiday Gift Guide
This holiday season give the gift of beer! Check out all of the great beer gear on the next few pages for some gift ideas for friends and family or make your own homebrew holiday wishlist…
By The Pint: Enjoying traditional British ales for 50 years
A homebrewer realizes that his 50th anniversary of loving British ales is coming up. He reflects back on his past with both the traditional ales from the island nation as well as his relationship with craft beer through the years
Don’t Forget Your Lines! How and why you should clean your draft lines
Most nanobrewers spend a lot of time on their cleaning and sanitation protocol for cellar equipment. Are the taprooms where their beer is being poured doing the same?
Crystal Malts: Tips from the Pros
In addition to lending color and flavor to beer, crystal malts enhance body and help with foam stability. Three pros make the best ways to use crystal malt crystal clear.
2022 Label Contest Winners
The winning homebrew labels from BYO’s 2022 Label Contest, which really show off the creativity of homebrewers from around the world.
Bring on the Warmth
Get tips and recipes for brewing three high-ABV styles — barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout — that you can brew now to help shake off the frost in the dead of winter.
Playing With Extract: Sometimes simple can be better
When an experienced homebrewer uses malt extracts, opportunities abound in terms of the beer’s potential. Denny and Drew have some tricks for those looking to save time on brew day.
Grape Ale: Pyment’s beery cousin
While the combination of wine grapes and beer dates back millennia, up until the last decade or so the modern craft beer movement has largely overlooked it. Get the scoop on grape ales and how Italian brewers helped pioneer the style.
Perfect Winter Pairings
When the weather gets cold homebrewers often turn to bigger beer styles that just so happen to pair perfectly with hearty meals ideal for the season. Explore techniques and examples of food pairings to serve with barleywine, wheatwine, and imperial stout this winter.
Hop Creep
Large dry-hop additions that have become more prevalent over the past decade have caused surprises among commercial brewers and homebrewers alike. The phenomenon leading to a lower final gravity, increased ethanol, and increased carbonation is called hop creep and is due to diastase activity of hops. Learn more about hop creep and how to prepare for it.
