Beer Style: Pale Ale Family
Brewing Lawnmower Beers: Tips from the Pros
Slake your summer thirst with a lawnmower beer.
Widmer Brothers Brewing Co.’s Hop Jack Ale clone
A beer that has since been retired, Widmer Brothers did bring this beer back for their 30th Anniversary celebration. Cascade and Centennial hops are on display for this beer. You can recreate this beer in your brewery with this recipe.
Old-World Alt
An American brewer flies to Germany to learn how to brew altbier, the traditional top-fermented ale that made Dusseldorf famous. He talked to brewers, tasted his share of alt and came home with the inside dope on malt, hops, yeast strains and fermentation, plus an authentic recipe straight from a brewer’s mouth.
Kölsch
OG = 1.040 to 1.048 FG = 1.008 to 1.013 IBUs = 16 to 30 SRM = 3.5 to 5 ABV = 4.0 to 5.0% Kölsch is the beer that put the
Brew a Pale Ale Using Extract and Specialty Grains
How to steep grains, boil pellet hops, make a starter from liquid yeast and conduct a secondary fermentation.
Huckleberry Ale
An American-style pale ale, with a healthy heaping of huckleberries.
Alaskan Brewing Co’s Alaskan Amber clone
This beer was first brewed commercially by Douglas City Brewing in the late 1800s and later by Geoff Larson, who in 1986 founded his Alaskan Brewing Company. His amber has won a slew of awards since then, including several Great American Beer Festival medals and a first-place finish at the 1996 World Beer Championships.
Alaskan Amber is an altbier, more in the Münster tradition than the Düsseldorfer (in other words, it’s sweeter, richer, less bitter and less dry).
Belgian Golden
There is no official “Belgian golden” category. Rather, it is “Belgian pale,” but this beer should not be confused with a regular pale ale of any sort. In fact if it were
Yarrow Pale Ale (YPA)
This recipe for a YPA came to me one summer afternoon after mowing the lawn. Yarrow, thyme, and savory have spilled out of my wife’s herb garden to become part of the lawn in one place, and they inevitably get mowed along with the dandelions and weeds. The aroma was amazing, and so is the beer.
British Bitter
The Bitter Truth About an English Beer
White Chocolate Pale Ale
An lightly hopped pale ale with white chocolate hints.
American Pale Ale
Brew with a little Yankee ingenuity.
