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Specialty Beer Family
Our Specialty Beer recipes don’t neatly fit into other categories. These include wood-aged beers, smokey styles, recipes including special ingredients, fruits, and more.
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Article
Gruit
While it is true that it is an unhopped beer that uses other herbs to add character, traditional gruit is a very narrowly defined and specif
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Workshop
Keys to a Successful Small-Scale Barrel-Aging Program
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Recipe
Revolution Brewing Co.’s Fistmas Clone
Appropriate for the season, Fistmas is a holiday beer for hopheads! “As a homebrewer, I always would do spiced ales around the holidays,â
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Recipe
Revolution Brewing Co.’s Deth’s Tar Clone
The base beer of Deth’s Tar is an English-style imperial oatmeal stout that Revolution ages in whiskey barrels.
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Recipe
Not Craig’s Smoked Porter!
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Article
Learn How to Smoke Your Beers
Beer produced with smoked malts don’t need to be smoke bombs. Learn to craft your own smoked malts and use them in recipes.
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Recipe
My Special Ale
An ode to Anchor Brewing Co.’s annual holiday release Our Special Ale with advice gleaned from former longtime Anchor Brewmaster Scott Unger
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Recipe
Sly Fox Brewing Co.’s Morning Brew Coffee Blonde Clone
The blonde ale itself was made with a simple malt bill and low bitterness — a little lower on the bitterness scale than normal since the c
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Recipe
Firestone Walker Brewing Co.’s Oaktoberfest Clone
Oaktoberfest has been part of the Firestone Walker lineup for about 20 years, but was originally a small volume beer brewed for Oktoberfest
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Article
Catharina Sour
Catharina sour — the fruited sour beer style that originated in Brazil — has continued to evolve and catch the attention of brewers acro
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Workshop
Sour Beer Techniques Workshop
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Recipe
Prairie Artisan Ales’ Slush Clone
A bright red, kettle-soured ale made with strawberry and raspberry fruit puree complemented with dried sweet orange peel and dried lemon pee