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Podcast Episode 194: Ryan Crisp of Alesmith is Wired on Coffee Stout

Ryan Crisp, Alesmith’s director of brewing operations, shares the behind-the-scenes design and technique that make their Speedway imperial coffee stout so iconic.

Breakout Brewer: Mikkeller

Following the recent announcement of a creative partnership between Mikkeller and AleSmith Brewing Company, here’s a profile of the (once) nomadic brewer Mikkel Borg Bjergsø.

Best in Beer 2024 Readers’ Choice: Who Brews It Best?

The diversity of styles is one thing that makes craft beer great. Here are your favorite brewers in eight different craft beer niches. 2023 rank is noted in parentheses.

Pick Six: Kelsey McNair’s IPA Time Machine

North Park founder Kelsey McNair has become one of the country’s most influential brewers thanks to his process-oriented approach to saturating beer with hop flavors. Here, he goes back in time to reach for six IPAs that still inform how he brews them today.

Best in Beer Readers’ Choice: Your Favorite Breweries in 2023

You voted, we tallied. From our annual Readers’ Choice survey, here are your favorite breweries—broken down by size, based on how many barrels brewed per year.

Stainless Steel Is Forever: A Story of Well-Traveled Gear

Some brewhouses are forever, even if they don’t stay put—and more than a few have traveled their way around the country and even around the world. At each location, that unique set of equipment and the brewers who use it must form a connection that inevitably affects what we drink.

Best in Beer 2022: Reader’s Choice Top 50 & Your Favorite Breweries by Size

You voted, and here they are: your top 50 beers of 2022, plus your favorite breweries by size, as decided by the readers of Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®.

Beer Bars We Love in Richmond, Antwerp, & Olympia

In this edition of Love Handles—where we put the spotlight on the world's great beer bars—we check out The Cask in Richmond, Virginia; the Ware Jacob in Antwerp, Belgium; and the Eastside Club Tavern in Olympia, Washington.

Best in Beer 2020 Readers’ Choice: Who Brews It Best?

Going beyond your No. 1 fave brewer, we asked you for your favorite beers and brewers in eight specific style categories, from saisons to stouts (and, of course, IPAs).

Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine Best in Beer 2016: Readers’ Choice & Editors’ Picks

From your reader picks to our tightly curated (and much argued-over) editors’ picks for the year, we’ve left no stone unturned in bringing you the absolute best in the world of beer this year.

Water: The Overlooked Essential

Alas, water is to most IPA drinkers as “Arrested Development’s” Ann Veal is to Michael Bluth (that is, the thing that’s always around yet you’re constantly forgetting about). And yet, water is essential to every IPA—every beer, in fact.

Jalapeño and IPA Battered Corn Dogs Recipe

The jalapeño and IPA batter on these corn dogs adds a spicy and bitter counterpoint to the sweet corn.

7 Baseball Stadiums for Great Beer

No ordinary beer will do for the ball game.

Our Favorite Coffee-Flavored Beers

Celebrate National Coffee Day (September 29) with coffee-flavored beers. Our list of coffee-flavored beers runs the gamut of flavors, ranging from sweet to spicy to boozy.

International Stout Day (November 3, 2016)

We have the decisive guide to celebrating International Stout Day like a pro with beer recommendations, food recipes, and homebrew recipes!

Critic's List: John Verive’s Best of 2017

Craft Beer & Brewing Magazine®’s Gearhead columnist and the author of the blog Beers of Tomorrow carefully reviewed his notes from the past calendar year to offer up these beer picks, brewery experiences, and more.

Denver Rare Beer Tasting Beer List Taking Shape

Limited Number of Tickets Remain for Pints for Prostates Fundraiser.

Pick Six: Jeff Erway of La Cumbre Brewing Co.

Since founding La Cumbre in Albuquerque in 2010, Jeff Erway has combined creativity with precision to earn six medals from GABF and four more from the World Beer Cup. Here, he names a six-pack of beers that have influenced his own journey.

Best in Beer 2019 Readers' Choice: Who Brews It Best?

For our Best in Beer 2019 issue, we asked for your favorite brewers of eight different styles of beer. Here are the results.

Gearhead: Shortening the Wait for Finished Beer

Many brewers are using in-line carbonation systems to inject CO2 into the beer as it moves from one vessel to another, thereby reducing the wait from crashed to canned (or kegged).

Cooking With Beer: Winter Warmth

On the last days of winter, what could be better than spicy soup, a roast with smoky character, and a winter-warmer-spiked bread?

Best of 2018: Who Brews It Best?

Since any general “top breweries” list will inevitably be dominated by breweries who make IPAs, we asked our readers about their favorite beers and brewers in these eight specific styles.

Denver Rare Beer Tasting Tickets on Sale Father's Day

Partial List of Breweries for Pints for Prostates Event Announced

Beercation: Burlington, Vermont

Beer and travel writer Heather Vandenengel spent a few days in Chittenden County, Vermont, to learn what the new craft-beer scene is brewing . . .

Beyond Bitter: Defining Imperial Pale Ale

Imperial pale ale is a derivative style, one that could easily be defined less by what it is than what it isn’t.

Beercation: San Diego

San Diego’s all-encompassing craft-beer culture continues to support and incubate a growing number of younger breweries.

The Art of Darkness

With its robust flavor, inky darkness, alcoholic warmth, and august lineage, imperial stout is the ne plu ultra of big beer, and indeed, the source of all things imperial.

5 Beers You’ll Want to Drink on Thanksgiving Day

From first thing in the morning to the last thing at night, a perfect beer for every moment of Thanksgiving Day.

The IPAs of California

The bright, bitter, and aromatic India pale ales of California sparked an infatuation with hops that emanated across the craft-beer landscape and developed into the modern IPA style.

5 Craft Beer Milkshake Recipes to Kick the Heat

Who says you have to stick to beer to cool down? We have five boozy milkshake recipes to put the fires out this summer.