Nebraska Brewing’s Wort Transformation Challenge unleashes the creative spirit of local homebrewers by offering them a baseline wort to use as a blank canvas.

New breweries have transformed London’s beer scene, and one significant trait joins a number of them: they started as members of the London Amateur Brewers.

The results are in! East of the past 11 years, we’ve asked Zymurgy readers to vote for up to 20 of their favorite beers. A look at the results, plus clone recipes.

What happens if we marry the hop rumble of the IPA with a pale ale- (or lower) strength beer? I would argue a wonderful thing happens—the session IPA.

If you’ve been brewing a while, you may have experienced frustration using a hydrometer. A refractometer can dramatically improve your brewing and it’s easy to use.

Scientists have firmly established a variety of instances where yeast plays a key role in the transformation of hop-oil derived compounds into distinctive “hoppy” aromas.

For brewers who want an innovative way to achieve greater complexity, blending select yeast strains can enhance the good and minimize the less desirable qualities of each.

Exbeeriments such as nanomashes can provide an accurate example of what a particular specialty grain will taste like, making recipe formulation easier and less wasteful.

No one in our club had ever done a side-by-side comparison to provide concrete proof that doing a decoction does or does not in fact make a difference—until now.