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• Surly Brewing Company Furious IPA Clone: Recipe
• Widmer Brewing Co. W-10 Pitch Black IPA Clone: Recipe
• Birth of a New Style: Cascadian Dark Ale

  • A new style of beer is emerging from the breweries of the Pacific Northwest. Dark like a porter, but hoppy like an IPA. Some call it Cascadian dark ale. Others call it Black IPA. We’ve got three clone recipes you’ll call delicious.

• 2010 Label Contest Winners

  • Many bottles of homebrew are lucky to get a number written on their cap. The winners of this year’s label contest, in contrast, are decorated with the best works of art to spring from the minds of homebrewers. 

• Tasting Fermentation, Higher Alcohols: Mr. Wizard

  • Should you taste your beers throughout the brewing and fermentation process? The Wiz thinks so.

• Last Call: Solar Brewing

  • Go green in your brewhouse — check out solar brewing.

• Surly Brewing Co. Furious Clone: Replicator

  • The Replicator clones Surly Brewing Company’s Furious.

• From Grain to Glass: Your First All-Grain Beer

  • All-grain brewing can be a complex subject, but the basic idea is straightforward. And, you can dive in and learn the practical aspects of all-grain brewing at home before tackling the more technical stuff. We’ll show you how. 

• CAMRA Champion Clones

  • Every year, CAMRA — the UK’s Campaign for Real Ale — give the best traditional British ales its Champion Beers of Britain award . . . we’ve cloned six for you to brew.

• American Wheat: Tips from the Pros

  • Three US brewers discuss brewing a style that is all about the USA: American wheat.

• American Wheat: Style Profile

  • American wheat owes some of its heritage to German wheat beers, but this style is decidedly New World.

• Historical Porter: Techniques

  • Historically, porter was transferred in oak casks, which very likely contributed Brettanomyces to the brew. Can that phenomenon be recreated?

• Whirlpooling: Advanced Brewing ( 2010)

  • Whirlpooling separates the trub from the wort, but how does it work?