Brewing Recipes

Award‑winning beer recipes across styles and skill levels. Filter by style or ingredients to find your next brew day.

844 Recipes

Recipe: Brothers Tella

Colton Proveau’s recipe for tella, the traditional Ethiopian beer, is directly inspired by the process at the Selo Tella brewpub in Addis Ababa.

Sep 30, 2026

Recipe: Nicht Links Belgian-Style Blonde Ale

With its bright, fruity esters but restrained phenolic spice, the Ardennes ale strain is the perfect yeast for this sneaky-strong Belgian-style blonde ale.

Sep 28, 2026

Recipe: Itañeñe La Crème de la Crème

This pilsner from Mexico City’s Cervecería Itañeñe won gold in a special competition for beers brewed with Alsatian hops. Itañeñe founder and head brewer Lucía Carrillo says the Mistral hops contribute a gewürztraminer-like white-wine character.

Sep 27, 2026

Recipe: Cambier New French IPA

Nathan Miller, head brewer at Brasserie Cambier in Croix, France, shares this recipe for their hazy IPA that fully embraces French aroma varieties for a distinctively floral profile with notes of stone fruit and pine.

Sep 23, 2026

Recipe: Suncatcher Brown Ale

From Matt Gallagher, founder and brewer at Chicago’s Suncatcher, this session-strength dark brown ale is inspired by the English tradition but brewed with Michigan-grown hops and a rich, varied grist of Midwestern malts.

Sep 17, 2026

Brujos Populus DDH Hazy IPA

Sam Zermeño, founder and brewer at Brujos in Portland, Oregon, shares this recipe for their popular Citra-powered hazy IPA.

Sep 14, 2026

Recipe: River North Hello Darkness Imperial Porter

From the team at Denver’s River North, here’s a recipe for the beefed-up porter that won a silver medal at the 2022 Great American Beer Festival and gold at the 2024 U.S. Open Beer Championship.

Sep 11, 2026

Recipe: CLAG Name Change Hazy Session IPA

Kevin Kowalski, head brewer at CLAG in Sandusky, Ohio, shares this recipe for an easier-drinking hazy IPA—previously known as Lite—nonetheless packed with hop character driven especially by Citra and Motueka hops.

Sep 8, 2026

Recipe: The Big Friendly Galaxidion

From the Big Friendly in Oklahoma City, here’s a recipe for the dry-hopped, Brett-fermented saison that won gold at the 2025 Great American Beer Festival.

Sep 3, 2026

Recipe: Buckwheat Honey Bitter

This honey ESB makes for a fun ride on the palate: Between the ample crystal malts, the honey flavors—buckwheat is rich and spicy—and yeast, you end up with a lot of candy, strawberry, earthy, spicy, and malty flavors.

Sep 1, 2026

Recipe: River North Uptown Squirrel English Brown Porter

This session-strength, English-inspired porter won a gold medal and Best American Beer at the 2024 Brussels Beer Challenge.

Aug 23, 2026

Recipe: Craft Coast XPA

This extra pale ale is a crowd favorite at Craft Coast Beer & Tacos in San Diego’s North County. It’s also found success at the highest levels of competition, winning two straight World Beer Cup medals—bronze in 2024, then silver in 2025, in the Australian-Style Pale Ale category.

Aug 22, 2026

Recipe: Scotty’s Froggy Depot XPA

“The aim here is to make a ripping XPA that combines plenty of saturated modern hop characters—thanks in part to the multiple small kettle-hop additions—with a lean but structured malt base,” says Scotty Hargrave, the progenitor of modern XPA.

Aug 18, 2026

Recipe: Birra all’Uva Italian Grape Ale

We based this recipe on parameters shared by Gianriccardo Corbo, the brewer who wrote the BJCP guidelines for Italian grape ale (IGA).

Aug 12, 2026

Recipe: Autumn Leaves Pumpkin Ale

Here’s a fairly classic take on an American seasonal tradition: a solid amber-brown ale that includes both the real (pumpkin) and the evocative (pie spice).

Aug 5, 2026

Recipe: CLAG Cold Hawaii Double IPA

Kevin Kowalski, head brewer at CLAG in Sandusky, Ohio, shares this recipe for the brewery’s highly rated double hazy IPA. Generous additions of Nelson Sauvin in the whirlpool and dry hop power much of Cold Hawaii’s juicy-dank flavors, while Citra, Galaxy, and Simcoe add depth.

Aug 2, 2026

Recipe: Mountain Rambler Singing Coyote Amber Ale

Malt complexity leads the way in this amber ale—a gold medal–winner at the 2025 World Beer Cup—from Mountain Rambler in Bishop, California.

Jul 30, 2026

Recipe: Sway County Yarrow Saison

Sway founder and head brewer Matt Sampson shares this recipe for their saison brewed with locally foraged yarrow.

Jul 26, 2026

Recipe: Far Field Infrared American Red Ale

From Far Field Beer in Lawndale, California, in L.A.’s South Bay area, here’s a recipe for the American amber that won gold at the 2024 World Beer Cup.

Jul 22, 2026

Recipe: Latgalian-Style Smoked Farmhouse Ale

This recipe represents most of what we know about the traditional farmhouse style of Latgale in southeastern Latvia. Note that the bitterness and strength of these beers can vary widely—feel free to adjust the hops or pack more malt into your mash tun.

Jul 16, 2026

Recipe: Crow & Squirrel Traditional Perry

Made annually from the pears picked off the tree out back, this recipe for a dry perry represents how I do it at home.

Jul 12, 2026

Recipe: Opus Aeternum, the Neverending Boil

From South Africa’s Afro Caribbean and Soul Barrel breweries, this hefty barleywine of 17.5 percent ABV is based on a unique, experimental process involving a boil stretched out over six days.

Jul 9, 2026

Recipe: Newfoundland Hopped Perry

Newfoundland Cider shares this recipe for one of their small-batch perries, which undergoes a natural fermentation, ages on oak, and gets a final touch of Cascade and Centennial hops.

Jul 7, 2026

Recipe: Washington’s Common Country Ale

This colonial-era pale ale recipe—a collaboration with Mount Vernon to celebrate the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence—takes a page right out of Martha Washington’s cookbook.

Jul 3, 2026

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