Welcome to eAle.com™

Craft Brewing Magazine

Recipe: Latgalian-Style Smoked Farmhouse Ale

This recipe represents most of what we know about the traditional farmhouse style of Latgale in southeastern Latvia. Note that the bitterness and strength of these beers can vary widely—feel free to adjust the hops or pack more malt into your mash tun.

Podcast Episode 492: Building Better Gateways into Brewing, Produced in Partnership with Pinter

Most professional craft brewers get their start as homebrewers, often with simple extract-based kits. Pinter’s mission to make that process easier—and the beer better—is helping a new generation of future brewers connect with the art and craft of making.

The Case for Harvesting Yeast

Harvesting yeast can cut costs quickly—but how many times can you reuse it before quality suffers? Here’s what experienced brewers actually watch for.

Latvia’s Little-Known Latgalian Ale Is the Smoke Bomb of the Baltics

This obscure farmhouse brewing tradition out of eastern Latvia is still alive today, and it’s one that fans of smoked beer may want to add to their bucket lists.

Recipe: Crow & Squirrel Traditional Perry

Made annually from the pears picked off the tree out back, this recipe for a dry perry represents how I do it at home.