Beer Style: Amber Ale Family
Smog City Brewing Co.’s Sabre-Toothed Squirrel clone
This hoppy amber ale features hop characteristics of pine, citrus, and herbal notes that pair perfectly with a maltier beer.
Lazy Day Blonde Ale
This is the lightest, and simplest, extract beer we’ve ever made. You can get in and out and have a tasty beer in no time flat. What kind of beer? The beer-flavored variety, naturally.
Gordon Strong’s Bière de Garde
An amber bière de garde in the style of Jenlain using (mostly) malts from the area.
Heisler
Brew Hollywood’s favorite fictional beer — Heisler — at home!
Gordon Strong’s American Amber Ale
The challenge in this style to me is restraint, and keeping the flavors in balance. If you do that, this could be a choice as one of your regular house beers.
American Amber Ale
While its popularity peaked in the earlier years of the craft beer movement American amber ales are far from dead. Learn some of the key traits to brewing one of the classic styles in American craft beer lore.
Coffee American Rye Ale
This combines the spicy flavor profile of you basic rye ale and adds a shot of coffee to boost the complexities found in the beer’s profile.
Roggenbier: A rye twist on a dunkelweizen
Rye malt is a necessity to make a roggenbier. While that may be obvious, the techniques required to optimize your efforts (and time) to brew one are not. Gordon Strong takes us on a journey to explore this rye twist on a dunkelweizen.
Pennsylvania Swankey
I always thought “swanky” was a word that meant to be dressed with style, to have suave class, or a personality with a smooth strut when you walk. A top hat and a
X Marks the Bock
X Marks the Bock (5 gallons/19 L, extract only)OG = 1.060 FG = 1.012IBU = 35 SRM = 9 ABV = 6.3% When formulating an extract version of the all-grain recipe Old
Old Timer’s Bock
Old Timer’s Bock (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.060 FG = 1.010IBU = 35 SRM = 13 ABV = 6.6% This recipe is our attempt of brewing an American bock similar to
Gordon Strong’s Cream Ale
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.052 FG = 1.010IBU = 14 SRM = 3 ABV = 5.6% Ingredients3.5 lbs. (1.6 kg) German Pilsner malt3.5 lbs. (1.6 kg) US 2-row malt2 lbs. (907
