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Amber Ales & Lagers Family
Amber in color, moderate in strength, with a malty caramel flavor. Amber Ales and Lagers include Irish red, Scottish shilling, Märzen, Vienna lager, among other styles.
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Monks’ Fortitude Märzen
Monks’ Fortitude is an homage to the malty Märzens of Franconia.
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Gordon Strong’s Bière de Garde
An amber bière de garde in the style of Jenlain using (mostly) malts from the area.
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Saddle Mountain Brewing Co.’s Taildragger Clan-Destine Clone
Checking in at 6.2% ABV and 22 IBU, Clan-Destine is medium-full bodied, drinks rich with notes of toffee and caramel from Golden Promise and
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Heisler
Brew Hollywood’s favorite fictional beer — Heisler — at home!
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Gordon Strong’s Scottish Export
This recipe can easily be scaled down to make a Scottish heavy, say at 3.5% ABV, or scaled up to a stronger but still export strength 5.2% b
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Left Hand Brewing Co.’s Oktoberfest Clone
The beer is crystal clear with copper hues. Biscuit and bread crust notes lead, supported by noble hop character that provides a dry and spi
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Gordon Strong’s American Amber Ale
The challenge in this style is restraint, and keeping the flavors in balance. If you do that, this could be a choice as one of your regular
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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 tra
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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
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Boulevard Brewing Co.’s Bob’s ’47 clone
A tribute to Bob Werkowitch, former Master Brewer of Kansas City’s George Muehlebach Brewing Company and graduate of the U.S. Brewer’s A
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Pennsylvania Swankey
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X Marks the Bock
When formulating an extract version of the all-grain recipe Old Timer’s Bock, we had to make some sacrifices due to the large percent of f