Beer Style: Specialty and Experimental Beer
Pickle Beer
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIf you are on the hunt for a beer that is nice and refreshing on a hot day, here is a recipe for you!
Behemoth Brewing Co.’s Chocolate Fish Milk Stout clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyA flavorful beer led by chocolate with notes of raspberry supporting. The beer drinks like a chocolate raspberry dessert while retaining all the character and drinkability of a traditional milk stout.
Gordon Strong’s Sahti
Digital and Plus Members Only(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.099 FG = 1.038IBU = 9 SRM = 16 ABV = 9% Ingredients15.5 lbs. (7 kg) Pilsner malt2 lbs. (0.91 kg) dark Munich malt2 lbs. (0.91 kg) rye malt1.25 lbs. (567 g) caramel rye malt (65 °L)1 lb. (454 g) rice hulls4 AAU Spalt hops (mash hop) (1 oz./28 g
Castle Danger Brewery’s Nordic Sahti clone
Digital and Plus Members Only(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.053 FG = 1.011IBU = 26 SRM = 7 ABV = 5.5% Ingredients8 lbs. (3.6 kg) Pilsen malt1.25 lbs. (567 g) Briess caramel malt (10 °L)1 lb. (454 g) flaked rye0.75 lb. (340 g) honey malt1.5 oz. (43 g) dried juniper berries, crushed (20 min.)5 AAU Saaz hops (60 min.)
Coffee American Rye Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis 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.
Pistachio Pale Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyWhat’s better than drinking beer and eating pistachios? Smashing them together (of course) and making citrusy pale ale using Palisade hops with a smoky pistachio kick.
Sunflower Seed Dark Hefeweizen
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThis recipe takes advantage of the head retention power of wheat to blend in some flavors of toasted sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds are very oily, so toasting the seeds to get a large amount of the oils removed is essential.
Pecan Doppelbock
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI chose a doppelbock because of its rich, full-bodied, caramel malty flavor, blanketed light hop aroma with a light ruby-hazed color. This style with the pecan addition just screams Thanksgiving to me.
Smoked Pumpkin Seed Saison
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPumpkin spice ales and lagers are the most common styles of this gourd-like brew, but the saison style has some peppery spice undertones I thought might balance well.
Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout
FREECandy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.084 FG = 1.021IBU = 60 SRM = 41 ABV = 8.2% Candy cap mushrooms impart a distinct flavor and aroma of
To Better Times (Farmhouse Table Beer)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyTo Better Times (Farmhouse Table Beer) (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.035 FG = 1.007IBU = 10 SRM = 3 ABV = 3.7% This recipe was created with one purpose in mind — to make a refreshing, tasty beer out of very little. The hops used are an illustration, but really any will do —
Crooked Nail Rustic Ale
Digital and Plus Members OnlyCrooked Nail Rustic Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.045 FG = 1.010IBU = No hops SRM = 9 ABV = 4.6% With no hops, homemade base malt, and recycled yeast, this beer is pretty rustic, but the wild herbs perfectly complement the grain bill to give a rich, earthy flavor. This brew uses a hybrid