Beer Recipes

Sierra Nevada Pale Ale is the beer I return to as a reference point when calibrating my hop character — it defined the American Pale Ale style and remains one of the best-executed examples of Cascade hops’ grapefruit and floral …

Tree House Brewing’s Julius NEIPA became a reference point for what I was trying to achieve with hazy IPA — the combination of tropical fruit intensity, soft mouthfeel, and minimal bitterness perception despite substantial IBU was unlike anything I h

Pliny the Younger is the beer that made me obsessed with fresh hop character and double dry hopping before those techniques had mainstream names — Russian River releases it annually for only two weeks, and the lines stretching around the …

Kona Big Wave Golden Ale is Hawaii’s most approachable craft beer export — a 4.4% ABV golden ale that manages to be genuinely hop-forward while remaining light enough for beach drinking in tropical heat.

Goose Island IPA is a classic American IPA from Chicago that helped define the Midwest craft beer scene — a 5.9% ABV IPA with a balanced hop bill that leans citrusy-floral without the aggressive resinous bitterness of West Coast extremes.

Brooklyn Lager is one of the great American craft lager clones — a Vienna-style amber lager that Steve Hindy and Tom Potter revived in 1988, bringing pre-Prohibition New York lager tradition back to life.

James Squire 150 Lashes Pale Ale is the pale ale that brought Australian craft beer to mainstream pub taps — a 4.2% ABV session pale ale with genuine Cascade hop character that convinced a generation of lager drinkers to try …

White Rabbit Dark Ale from Healesville, Victoria is one of Australia’s most celebrated dark ales — a 4.

Little Creatures Pale Ale from Fremantle, Western Australia is the beer that launched the modern Australian craft beer movement — a bold, hop-forward American-style pale ale that arrived in 2000 when most Australians were drinking macro lager.

Coopers Sparkling Ale is one of the world’s great ale originals — an unfiltered, bottle-conditioned, naturally cloudy Australian ale at 5.8% ABV that has been brewed by the family-owned Coopers Brewery in Adelaide since 1862.