Beer Style: Specialty Beer Family
Piwo Grodziskie
Piwo Grodziskie is a historical beer style recently brought back from extinction. Two Vermonters set out to brew this low-alcohol, highly-carbonated, oak-smoked wheat ale.
Grodziskie
Grodziskie (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.030 FG = 1.007 IBU = 30 SRM = 3-4 ABV = 2.9% Ingredients 5 lbs. (2.3 kg) Weyermann oak-smoked wheat
Pastry Beers
Often brewed with adjunct culinary ingredients and featuring flavor profiles of baked goods and desserts, pastry beers push the boundary of what beer is. Get tips to brew your own pastry beer, plus 4 clone recipes.
Neshaminy Creek Brewing Co.’s Maximum Mocha Porter clone
A chocolate pastry porter with coffee beans and coffee-infused dark chocolate.
Imprint Beer Co.’s Black Forest Cake Stout clone
A pastry stout with cherry puree, vanilla beans, and cacao/
Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Co.’s Funnel Cake clone
Forgotten Boardwalk Brewing Company, located in Cherry Hill, New Jersey, describes their Funnel Cake sweet cream ale smelling like “old-fashioned Nilla wafer” and tasting like classic Jersey Shore boardwalk funnel cake.
Conshohocken Brewing Co.’s Glazing Saddles clone
This is a creamy, blonde “krapfen-style ale” (from the German word for “donuts”) recipe that includes donut as an ingredient!
Moonlight Meadery Razz What She Said clone
A sweet apple cider with raspberry juice.
Moonlight Meadery Crimes of Passion clone
Moonlight Meadery Crimes of Passion clone Ingredients 4.5 gallons (17 L) sweet apple cider 0.5 gallon (2 L) black currant juice 4 Campden tablets 1 packet Lalvin Narbonne 71B-1122 yeast 1.5 tsp.
Moonlight Meadery Boys N Berries clone
Moonlight Meadery Boys N Berries clone Ingredients 4 gallons (15 L) sweet apple cider 1 gallon (4 L) boysenberry puree 4 Campden tablets 1 packet Lalvin Narbonne 71B-1122 yeast 1.5 tsp. Go-Ferm Step
Return of a Classic Sour Ale
Lambics have become popular among brewers around the world as the craft beer bug spreads, but we return to where it all began to learn the techniques and history of Belgian lambic.
Zoc’s Traditional Lambic
A traditional lambic from Paul Zocco.
