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Recipes
Light in color, Pale Lager beers are crisp and easy-drinking. Recipe styles include American lager, helles, kellerbier, Mexican lager, and more.
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Dad’s American Lager
This American Lager recipe can be used as a starting point for many variations. Scale down the alcohol to 3.5% and reduce the bitterness to
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Malt Liquor
This Malt Liquor recipe can be adjusted to a different alcohol level, if desired. Just add or remove corn sugar first.
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Working Draft Beer Co.’s Keep ‘Em Honest Clone
A German-style helles from Working Draft Beer Co., in Madison, Wisconsin.
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Dougweiser
You cannot tell the story of the Falcons without having Doug King in the middle of it. In Doug’s years in the club, the legend of Dougweis
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Cerebral Brewing Co.’s Standard Practice Clone
Stouts and barleywines aren’t the only styles you should consider aging in barrels. This helles lands on the other end of the flavor inten
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1188 Brewing Co.’s Silk Robes and Kimonos Rice Lager Clone
A BYO reader stumbled upon their first rice lager at 1188 Brewing Co. and wants to learn more about this highly drinkable brew.
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Gordon Strong’s Rice Lager
I like having a good, clean lager on tap, and this one has a refreshing quality while still being interesting.
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Home Pale Lager (1915)
Home Brewing Co.’s Assistant Brew Master Alphonse Gosch gives no information as to whether this beer was lagered at low temperature. He do
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Gordon Strong’s Italian Pilsner
Compared to a German Pils, the late hops are the first thing to notice. The flavor and aroma hops are more prominent and the aroma can have
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Bierkeller Columbia’s Kellerbier Clone
An unfiltered Franconian lager with a bready malt character that is balanced by soft carbonation and clean Perle hops.
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Rebel Queen
I like to think of this as a transatlantic lager, using a U.S.-inspired malt profile with a single British hop variety (Boadicea). I’ve of
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Gordon Strong’s Pre-Prohibition Lager
I’m presenting a modern homebrew version of this recipe that uses flaked maize rather than a cereal mash, and has some upgraded malt and h