Like many brewers, are you looking for a better way to chill your wort? One brewer’s solution: combining an immersion chiller with a whirlpool for more rapid chilling.

Building a simple stipulate from recycled materials that might already be found around your house can result in an increased pitchable yeast cell count for brew day.

Looking for a bigger space to lager all your beer? If you have an extra room in the house and are handy with tools, why not construct your own walk-in cooler?

The winning of the Great Gator Tails Brewing Gadget Extravaganza at the AHA Conference shares some simple homebrew gadgets that are easy to make yourself.

More than 41,000 people—up from 29,000 in 2005—converged on the Colorado Convention Center in Denver for the 25th Great American Beer Festival.

With the Sam Adams LongShot Competition and the new GABF Pro-Am competition, amateurs and pros pooled their skills to brew some great new craft beers this year.

Beer is an inspiring companion to food, with its enormous range of flavors, aromas and textures. But pairing beer and food is not nearly as complicated as you might think.

Holiday ales and winter seasonals are often extravagantly rich in dark roasted malts, making them versatile ingredients for glazes, gravies and sauces, even sweet syrups.

Winter ales are special for many reasons, especially in the context of our collective brewing heritage. We take a look at one special special beer brewed with a ship’s crew in mind.

“This stuff really wants to be beer.” This is the author’s standard response to brewers’ questions about offbeat ingredients they are planning to sneak into the mash tun.