January 22, 2024
Brewing With Chocolate: Elevating Beers Through a Delicate Process

By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written about using bold flavors to make great beer, like with kettle or smoothie sours or pastry stouts. While those flavors in beers are ...
January 19, 2024
Scotch Ale Packs a Malty Punch and a Throwback Beer Experience

By: Giovanni Albanese
Craft beer consumers still go gung-ho over IPAs. According to Untappd’s 2023 Year in Beer review, .hop-forward beers had more than twenty-three million check-ins above ...
January 12, 2024
Black IPA: An Underrated Style Booming with Flavor

By: Giovanni Albanese
It goes without saying (but we’ll say it anyway) that IPAs are the top craft beer style among consumers. The proof is in the data. ...
December 5, 2023
Oatmeal Stout: How the Experts Integrate Oats for a Silky, Velvety Brew

By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve just covered the tip of the iceberg with stout styles, previously chatting with experts about high-octane imperial stouts, making pastry stouts taste just like ...
November 22, 2023
Milk Stout: How Lactose Lends a Silky-Smooth Mouthfeel

By: Giovanni Albanese
Undoubtedly, stouts pick up traction from consumers during the colder months. But that doesn’t make life for brewers boring, with so many subsets of the ...
November 8, 2023
Pastry Stout: How to Make a Beer That Tastes Like Dessert

By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve written extensively about how to make darker styles like porters, Märzens, and high-octane imperial stouts. While imperial stouts are one of the most popular ...
November 3, 2023
Imperial Stout: Experts Explain Wide Ranges to Create a Great One

By: Giovanni Albanese
When it comes to imperial stouts in craft beer, it’s go big or go home. According to the previous two years of Untappd check-in data, ...
September 20, 2023
Three Major Keys to Bringing Old-World Classic Märzen to U.S. Craft Audiences

By: Giovanni Albanese
We’ve covered some classic European styles of beer in this space. Whether it’s Czech pilsner, Belgian tripel, helles lager, or farmhouse ales, craft brewers across ...
September 11, 2023
Why Porters Should be on Everyone’s Tap List Right Now

By: Giovanni Albanese
Not all dark beers are sweet, barrel-aged, big-bodied stouts. For instance, the porter—a garnet- to rust-colored beer that’s light, delicious, and worth considering adding to ...
September 6, 2023
Best Ingredients to Make Mexican-Style Lagers. Hint: It’s Not Lime

By: Giovanni Albanese
For a long time, brewers have been saying that this is the “Year of the Lager.” Finally, it seems that consumers are catching up. Untappd ...
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A Perfectly Dosed Solution for Increasing Revenue in the Craft Beer Industry

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