Craft Brewing Magazine
Recipe: Cloudburst Peaked in High School
From Cloudburst founder-brewer Steve Luke, here’s a homebrew recipe for the West Coast double red that won gold at the 2025 World Beer Cup.
Your Low-Lift Key to Hop Water and NA Success
Hop waters and NA beverages aren’t a compromise; they’re a new creative playground. Water-soluble hop aroma products such as LLZ™, SalvoPlus™, and Hop Oils make it easier than ever to create flavorful, hop-inspired drinks that appeal to both traditional beer lovers and health-conscious consumers. Here, we want to show you just how easy it is to create scalable, low-lift, high-return recipes with applicable pricing.
Ask the Pros: Brewing Strong Red Liquid Nostalgia with Cloudburst
In 2025, Seattle’s Cloudburst won World Beer Cup gold in the Strong Red Ale category for its throwback West Coast double red, Peaked in High School. Here, founder-brewer Steve Luke opens his yearbook to share the details.
Recipe: Good Word Riding Bikes in Munich Helles
On his two-vessel brewhouse in Duluth, Georgia, Good Word owner-brewer Todd DiMatteo hand-lugs buckets full of mash to make his decoction happen for their house helles—a process that he says is worth the effort.
Podcast Episode 456: Jaron Anderson of Helper Beer Applies Modern Techniques to Classic Styles with Winning Results
For Helper Beer, 2025 was a great year, with a gold medal for German-style pils at GABF and a Craft Beer & Brewing Best in Beer editors’ pick trophy for Regis helles. But the methods they use for these classical styles—such as cool pooling with heavy whirlpool hop loads—are anything but stuck in the past.