Oktoberfest, Marzen, and Festbier, oh my! What’s Oktoberfest, how did the festival get started, and what’s the difference between these German lager styles? A certified beer expert explains the ins and outs of these autumn favorites!

Brothers Jose and Javier Lopez celebrate their heritage at Casa Humilde Cerveceria, their Chicago craft brewery where they work with flavors and ingredients from Mexican culinary tradition.

Smoke is one of the most evocative aromas in the world. Here are three craft beers brewed with smoked malt from Sugar Creek Malt in Indiana, the only Nordic smokehouse in North America.

What is malt, how is it made, and what does it do for beer? Malt is the foundational ingredient of beer, and here we learn all about how it get used to make your favorite beer.

French Broad Chocolates and Burial Beer in Asheville, North Carolina, enjoy an ongoing creative partnership that has led to some of the most interesting (and tasty) beer chocolates and chocolate beers in the country, including a new collection of beer-infused chocolate bonbon bars.

Scott Watson was a professional craft brewer before founding Loon Chocolate. He sees many similarities between these two artisan worlds.

Let’s be honest—what mom really wants for Mother’s Day is a drink. And if that drink includes chocolate, all the better! More and more craft breweries are working with ethically-sourced cacao to create delicious and nuanced chocolate beers. Here are five great chocolate beers to enjoy with mom this Mother’s Day.

Corina Gimenez brings together Venezuelan cacao with Norwegian culinary ingredients at Xoco by Corina, a bean to bar chocolate company in southwest Norway.

There are dozens of craft beer styles, and almost all of them fit into one of two categories: ale and lager. But what’s the difference? It’s simpler than you think.

At Ratza Chocolate, Sara is infusing a lifetime of herbal knowledge and a world of botanical flavors into her bean to bar chocolate.

2020 was a hard year, but at least there was good beer and chocolate. Here are beer writer David Nilsen’s favorite craft beers & bean to bar chocolates of 2020.