Topic: Beer Styles
Bock in Four Movements
Learn how to make popular and traditional bock styles including helles, maibock, weizenbock, and dopplebock.
Brewing Pilsner: Tips from the Pros
The challenge is to preserve the simple, clean, delicate flavor of the pilsner malt.
Making Malt Coolers
At last, an answer for your friends who say, “But I don’t like beer. Why don’t you make some wine coolers?” Their “wine” coolers are probably malt beverages — tropically flavored beer!
Hefeweizen: Mostly Cloudy
Besides being delicious and unique, hefe-weizen is a classic show-off beer. It’s also the perfect beverage to sip on a warm day. But can you convince your friends it’s supposed to have yeast in it?
Brewing Big Barleywines
The Cabernet Sauvignon of Beers
Scotch Ales
With a brewing history dating to 43 AD, Scottish beer has had plenty of time to mature into a world-class beverage. With the craft-brewing movement channeling most of its energy into German
American Pilsner
If barley be wanting to make into malt, We must be content and think it no fault, For we can make liquor to sweeten our lips, Of pumpkins, and parsnips, and walnut-tree
Where the Wild Yeasts Are: Belgian Lambics
Since life is short and airfare deals abound, travel whenever you can. This is my motto. As a beer enthusiast, it seemed only fitting that a recent trip to Holland to visit
British Bitter
The Bitter Truth About an English Beer
Robust Porter
Porter was designed with economy in mind. In 1722 brewer Ralph Harwood created a brew he called “entire” to replace the three-beer blend that dominated London pubs. Publicans who once poured a
Fruit Beer: Tips from the Pros
Brewer: Peter Bouckaert Brewery: New Belgium Brewing Co., Ft. Collins, Colo. Years of experience: Nine Education: Degree in biochemistry in brewery and fermentation technology from CTL in Ghent, Belgium House Beers: Fat Tire (amber
Wheats of the World
From traditional Bavarian weisse to American wheat, six tasty ways to make refreshing wheat beer. Includes a starter recipe for your own experiments.