Craft Brewing Magazine
Ask the Pros: Brewing Cosmic Mixed-Culture Gold with the Big Friendly
The Big Friendly in Oklahoma City has won nine Great American Beer Festival medals for its beers over the past four years, including six gold medals. Key to that success has been the team’s thoughtful, patient approach to dry-hopped, oak-aged, mixed-culture saisons.
Recipe: Buckwheat Honey Bitter
This honey ESB makes for a fun ride on the palate: Between the ample crystal malts, the honey flavors—buckwheat is rich and spicy—and yeast, you end up with a lot of candy, strawberry, earthy, spicy, and malty flavors.
Make Your Best Honey Ale
Highly fermentable yet often quite flavorful, with many types available, honey is the queen bee of alternative sugars in the brewhouse. So, let’s ponder how it can shine in conjunction with a particular base style—in this case, an ESB.
Podcast Episode 500: The Current State of Hazy IPA with Monkish, Brujos, and North Park
In this 500th episode of the podcast, Henry Nguyen of Monkish, Sam Zermeño of Brujos, and Kelsey McNair of North Park join in a live discussion on hazy IPA recorded at our recent Brewer’s Retreat.
2027 Tech Trends in Brewing, Part II: Connected Growth Beyond the Brewhouse
This is Part II of a two-part series on the hottest tech trends in brewing. If you haven’t done so already, read Part I for our take on why breweries thriving in 2027 won’t necessarily brew the best IPA or win the most medals. Then read on for more tech trends in brewing.