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May 17, 2024

Chili Peppers in Beer: How to Balance Spicy vs. Spiced Just Right

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’re continuing our coverage on adjuncts used to improve beers—honey, coconut, chocolate, fruit candy, and fruit purees—with chili peppers, which can give a nice kick ...
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May 3, 2024

Brewing with Fruity Candy: How Your Favorite Sweet Treat Can Elevate Beer

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve highlighted how to brew with several of the most popular adjuncts—coconut, chocolate, honey, and fruit purees—that can make your finished product pop. With the ...
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May 1, 2024

Schwarzbier: How to Perfect This German-Style Dark Lager

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written about the best way to brew several traditional European beers: Märzen, Czech pilsner, Belgian tripel, helles lager, and Berliner weisse, to name a ...
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April 24, 2024

Brewing with Coconut: A Guide to Using This Tropical Fruit in Beer

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve provided several top guides featuring brewers’ insights on crafting beers with adjuncts, including honey, fruit purees, and chocolate. Another popular ingredient, coconut, whether used ...
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April 22, 2024

Saison: Experts Explain the Best Ways to Brew One

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By: Giovanni Albanese
From the French word for “season,” saison is a refreshing, crisp, and dry beer generally lower in ABV. Much like farmhouse ales, saisons have morphed ...
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March 26, 2024

Berliner Weisse: Experts Share Multiple Ways to Make a Great One

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’re officially into spring now, and the change in the seasons requires more refreshing beer. We’ve written much about sour beers, including the smoothie and ...
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March 4, 2024

Everything to Know About Brewing a Great Dry Irish Stout

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all stouts are created equal. In just the last year, we’ve written about how to brew the best milk stouts, oatmeal stouts, pastry stouts, ...
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February 29, 2024

Spontaneous Fermentation: Answering Some of the Tough Questions About This Complex Process

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By: Giovanni Albanese
The evolution of the craft beer industry has been driven by fine-tuning processes according to a set of regulations and using better ingredients so that ...
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February 26, 2024

The Secrets to Creating a Quintessential Cream Ale

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By: Giovanni Albanese
Over the past year, we dove deep into several different old-world beer styles—Scotch ale, Märzen, Belgian tripels, and Czech pilsners, among others. But beers that ...
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February 19, 2024

Experts Explain the Nuance of Creating a Great Barleywine

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By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered a lot of big beers in this space, including dessert-flavor-packed pastry stouts, imperial stouts, and even Belgian tripels. Along the lines of the ...
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