Beer Style: Specialty Beer Family
Pineapple or Coconut Brewing
The Wiz gets tropical and offers first-hand insight on the Pro-Am rauchbier he was involved with brewing.
Flanders Red Recipe
Jamil Zainasheff provides readers with a recipe to recreate an authentically-styled Flanders Red. Just remember that patience is one of the best tools for brewing this style.
Lilikoi Wheat Ale
Utilizing a clean base malt profile to highlight the passionfruit flavors co-mingled with fruity-esters from the bavarian yeast.
Prickly Pear Ale
A Texas supplier provides BYO with a simple recipe for a prickly pear ale.
Chokecherry Stout
Recipe provided by Ska Brewing out of Durango, Colorado.
Anoka Pumpkin Patch Ale
This pumpkin ale commemorates the famous Halloween celebration that’s held every year in Anoka, Minnesota. Recipe supplied by Midwest Supplies out of St. Louis Park, MN.
Sweet Grass Ale
Malt, hops, water, yeast….and lawn clippings? Well, not exactly. Sweetgrass is a fragrant plant used by Native Americans for spiritual ceremonies. We’ll show you how to brew a vanilla-scented beer with this uplifting ingredient.
Bragging Braggot
Braggots are fun synergy of meads and beer. Here is a basic recipe that is quick to complete on brewday, but patience is going to be greatly beneficial for fermentation.
Brew Your Own’s MC Hawking’s Event Horizon (Raspberry Wheat)
Here’s one we developed especially for this recipe collection. This beer takes less than 90 minutes to make on brewday. For best results, follow the instructions closely — even though some of the steps are a bit unusual. MC Hawking’s Event Horizon is a crisp, wheat beer accentuated by the raspberries, which add a tart, fruity note. This beer will disappear like it’s been sucked into a black hole.
Paul Zocco’s Flemish Red Ale
Paul Zocco, owner of Zok’s Homebrewing Supplies, in Willimantic, Connecticut says, “I spent a day at Rodenbach inhaling a few Grand Crus, one of the world’s best Flemish Red there is. This beer recipe has won many golds in New England competitions and it made the second round in the 2005 National Homebrew Contest.”
Brasserie D’Orval’s Orval Trappist Ale clone
Orval pours orange-brown with a big, rocky head. The very spritzy levels of carbonation and lightly sour with a distinctive Brett character make the beer feel prickly on the tongue. Orval beer is distinctly dry and has little hop bitterness or flavor, although it is the only Trappist ale to be dry hopped. You’ll really taste the pale malt base, so don’t use US, German or English malts for this.
Flanders Brown Ale
Horst Dornbusch profiles Flanders Brown Ale and provides readers with a recipe found here. This style is also known as Oud Bruin, which often are sour, but not always. This version adds some sour-tang to the beer’s profile.
