Beer Style

By Chris Macomber, the Head Brewer at Libushi Bashamichi (part of Anglo-Japanese Brewing) in Yokohama. Growing up in Oregon was…

by Lars Marius Garshol  Saisons used to stand out as this odd style of beer that wasn’t actually made in…

While malted barley is the main ingredient in most beers, for centuries, for millennia even, brewing traditions all over the…

By Momoyo Kagitani, Brewmaster at LocoBeer in Sakura, Chiba. Kölsch is one of my favorite beer styles. Its birthplace is…

The red and brown ales from East and West Flanders in Belgium are closely related types of beer, aged for…

I wrote a beer styles article about saisons for the Spring, 2013 edition of JBT, when saisons basically meant Saison…

By Chris Poel who is the Chief Brew Officer at Shiokaze BrewLab, Chiba City. Anyone who has known me for…

Italian Pilsner? I know what some of you are thinking: “Do you mean Nastro Azzuro or Moretti? Pilsner is Czech.…

Windischeschenbach It’s a bright June morning as I board my express train in Munich’s Central Station. There are beers for…

This issue we treat a style group that is regarded as an endangered species by many observers of the world…