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Specialty Beer Family
Our Specialty Beer recipes don’t neatly fit into other categories. These include wood-aged beers, smokey styles, recipes including special ingredients, fruits, and more.
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Growing and Brewing With Mushrooms
There is no one-flavor-fits-all when it comes to mushrooms. A brewer shares his experience growing and brewing with shiitake mushrooms that
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Brewing Fruited Beers
There are many approaches to adding fruit flavors to beer. Depending on the form — fresh, frozen, juice, puree, dried, concentrate, or ext
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Recipe
Lindgren Craft Brewery’s Narrow Gauge Shiitake Mushroom Saison Clone
This beer features what you would expect in a saison in regards to the malt and hops balance and the fruity esters and phenols derived from
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Dole Whip Tripel
This beer was meant to mimic the “local” ingredient of a Dole Whip, a frozen pineapple-laden whipped treat originally found at the Encha
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Fontana Farms’ Orange Mountain Pale Ale Clone
Here’s the clone recipe from a farm brewery in Indiana for their blood orange pale ale that packs a citrusy punch
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3 Sons Brewing Co.’s Summation Clone
This is the base recipe for Summation, which 3 Sons often brews variations of with added flavors like coffee, vanilla, and more. If you wish
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Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Parabola Clone
Parabola is arguably Firestone Walker’s most notorious barrel-aged beer and is released as a vintage beer each year. This imperial stout i
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Mortalis Brewing Co.’s Ophion Clone
This is the base recipe for Ophion, which Mortalis has released numerous variants of over the years with differing aging times and occasiona
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Smocadh (Bamberg-Style Rauchbier)
This rauchbier recipe is courtesy of my brewing partner, Fernando López Angulo. The smoked malt adds a smoky complexity without overpowerin
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Brewing with Smoked Malt
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Gordon Strong’s Gruit
Balancing the bitterness and spices can be difficult due to unknown freshness and potency, so be prepared to make infusions (teas) to tweak
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Recipe
Chocolate Winter’s Embrace
This winter seasonal beer has a rich malt character, underpinned by a pleasing chocolate note. The winter spices are present but not overpow