In This Issue:

Planet Homebrew: Good Beer’s Global Movement

By Randy Mosher

Legions of hobbyists, connoisseurs, and entrepreneurs are rising up everywhere, no longer willing to put up with the lack of variety and vapidity of industrial beer. 

Beer in the USSR

Alastair Kocho-Williams

A surprisingly complex history of Soviet beer reveals itself in the years between the two World Wars. Amidst vodka and mass-produced lager was a rising beer culture.

It’s Trouble, Brewing in Paradise

By Joe Stange

Flying monkey missiles and a lack of basic brewing ingredients and equipment are just a few of the challenges of brewing in tropical locations such as Costa Rica.

An Homage to Orval

By Ross Mitchell and Stephen “Kurtz” Neilsen
In a country famous for idiosyncratic beers, Belgium’s Orval combines several qualities from apparently disparate styles. Two Australians set out to brew their own version.

Columns

Editor's Desk

Big Beers and Big Ideas
By Jill Redding

From the Glass

Gearing Up for the NHC
By Gary Glass

World of Worts

Homebrewing a Classic Weissbock
By Charlie Papazian

Last Drop

Please Send Beer
By Clint Cherepa

Departments

• Beeroscope
• Dear Zymurgy
• Dear Professor
• Club Only
• Winners Circle
• Calendar
• Commercial Calibration
• Advertiser Index

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