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Pale Ale Family
Light in color, this category includes everything from American pale ale, blonde, and cream ale, to Belgian blond and pale ale, to English bitter, mild, and pale ale, to German Kölsch and altbier.
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Wild Card Brewery’s King of Hearts Blonde clone
This is a slightly modified version of the recipe for King of Hearts, one of Wild Card’s core range of beers. It’s a light and refreshin
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Cologne Kölsch
The word Kölsch has several connotations in the German language. If used as a noun, it refers to the distinct Cologne dialect and accent. A
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Düsseldorf Altbier
The grain bill of the classic copper-colored altbier — which is internationally also known as a German Brown Ale — is almost Munich-like
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Dream Cream Ale
With such a high percentage of flaked grains, some rice hulls maybe a good addition to the mash in order to help loosen things up.
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Legend Brewing Co.’s Utebier clone
“The term Utepils translates from Norwegian loosely into ‘the beer you enjoy outside on the first warm day of springtime’. We obviousl
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Bone Idle Bitter
A schwarz’ed version of an English bitter.
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Aurora (Not So) Blonde Ale
One evening after a scrumptious lemon-rosemary chicken meal prepared by my wife, Raven, we got to talking about what kind of beer would go w
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Tafelbier
Similar to Trappist single, Tafelbier is a low-gravity session style beer with a nice Belgian character in the background that is a great be
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Bombing Range Brewing Co.’s Medusa Dry Hopped Pale clone
This beer from Bombing Range Brewing (Richland, Washington) had limited availability but was easily one of the best using MedusaTM that I pe
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Oskar Blues Brewery’s Dale’s Pale Ale clone
Dale’s Pale Ale is an iconic American pale ale, balancing caramel and biscuit malt and fruity, citrusy, piney hops. The first craft beer i
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Ichetucknee Pale Ale (Vermont Version) By Danny Coenen
BOS-winning homebrew recipe, brewed by Danny Coenen. Winner of First Coast Cup (Jacksonville, Florida: 548 entries)
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Sasquatch Brewing Company’s OSA (Oregon Session Ale) clone
Willamette hops with flaked grains provide a nice, crushable session ale, able to quench the thirst of even a Sasquatch.