Today’s homebrewers enjoy unprecedented access to purpose-built brewing equipment, but the DIY spirit remains very much alive. Zymurgy’s annual Gadgets Issue celebrates that spirit.

Zoiglbier is less a kind of beer than a commitment to an age-old brewing tradition that has long since vanished across most of Bavaria. You know the beer’s flowing when you come across the Zoigl star hanging above a tavern door.

Brewing great beer is a dance between malt, hops, and yeast. When I create a recipe, I always try to picture (or mentally taste) the final product in my head. […]

It’s a thought that crosses many homebrewers’ and home cidermakers’ minds at one point or another while sipping their creations—could I turn this hobby into a career? The answer, undoubtedly, […]