The results are in! Each of the past 13 years, we’ve asked Zymurgy readers to vote for up to 20 of their favorite beers. Which beer took the crown in 2015? Plus, clone recipes.

The idea that we can crank out exact copies of the craft beers we most admire sounds great on paper, but creating perfect replicas takes quite a bit of work.

After about a year-and-a-half of planning, the author is joining the ranks of breweries planning to open in 2015. He flipped through his notebooks to share what he’s learned.

Fortunately, backpackers who enjoy a good beer (a redundant phrase…right?) have some excellent options for carrying brews on the trails these days.

In the latest report from the AHA’s Research & Education Fund, the authors investigate whether live culture homebrew might have an influence on the human microbiome.