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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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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!
Recipe courtesy of Jeff Gladish who is a bona fide rauchbier fanatic. Feel free to cut back on the smoked malts, maybe start by only using h
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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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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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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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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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Sour Beer Techniques Workshop
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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
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Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked Clone
This is their Sapwood Cellars’ Flaked (2021) beer, which is described as an imperial oatmeal stout with coconut and vanilla, and weighs in a
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Spiced Beer
Wintertime for homebrewers can often mean high-ABV beers and spiced ales. Get some pointers on adding a little spice to your next brew.
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Recipe
Gordon Strong’s Grape Ale
This grape ale example is based on the version I made with Cervejaria 4 Árvores in Porto Alegre, Brazil in 2018.