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The Brewers Association recognizes hundreds of different beer styles from the most traditional to the most innovative. The resources in this section are all about beer styles, including their history and brewing traditions, best practices techniques, ingredients, and sensory experience.
Brewers these days are adding all sorts of things to their IPAs—fruits, vegetables, herbs, spices, and sour treatments—to enhance and play off of the constituent flavors of hops and fermentation. Come listen in as industry vet Dick Cantwell discusses the …Read More
The IRI Group has recently reworked their beer styles data and the results provide new insights into the changing nature of craft brewing over time. Their data can now be broken into approximately 100 styles, of which 89 could be …Read More
Pilsen-style lager beer may be the most popular beer style worldwide, but that’s not the case in craft breweries. Learn how to produce a Pilsen-style lager in your brewery that is unique to your brewing process and fermentation setup. Explore …Read More
This big, delicious sipping beer with a warming and lingering alcohol glow can be thought of as a dark, “imperialized” version of a hefeweizen.
Some of the best sour beers in the world are created by master blenders instead of master brewers. And yet you can’t take some classes and suddenly become an expert blender.
Brewers often fall silent when asked for advice on blending, not so much because they aren’t willing to share ideas, but because it’s so difficult to get started.
The nation’s brewpubs are keeping pace with production breweries in sheer diversity of styles and audacity in pushing the envelope, brewing up sours and barrel-aged beers.
I’ve been asked by a couple of BA members about my predictions for style trends in 2017. Let me start by saying that figuring out what other people will like in the future is pretty darn hard. Rather than looking …Read More
International Gruit Day founder Steve Beauchesne will moderate a panel of some of the brewing world’s foremost experts on gruit—beer brewed with herbs, spices, and other botanicals in place of hops. The panelists will explain the tradition of this style, …Read More
Avery Brewing Company and New Belgium Brewing Company join together to take you through their souring processes. They combine the art and mystery with the science of souring, including TA measurements, acid profiles, and microbial populations. Read More
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