Beer Style: Specialty Beer Family
Sleigh Fuel
This recipe by Dean Priebe placed Best of Show, Novembeerfest 2007 (133 entries). An English winter warmer base with vanilla, orange, and cinnamon added.
Better Not Pout Stout
This recipe by Ben VanderMeer placed Best of Show, Great Arizona Homebrew Competition 2010 (151 entries)
Bad Santa
This recipe spiced winter ale by John Zelazny placed Best of Show, 2010 New York State Open (282 entries).
Star Anise Stout
This recipe, by Reed Vander Schaaf, won Best of Show, Santa Cruz County Fair 2008 out of 85 entries.
Holiday Prowler
Gordon Strong is President of the Beer Judge Certification Program. This recipe won Best of Show, Ohio State Fair 1997, out of 90 entries.
Pulque: A Mexican Indigenous Brew
Sure, Mexico is the home to many lagers served in clear bottles with a lime wedged in their necks. But if you dig a little deeper, you will find that it is also the land of many indigenous brews, including pulque.
Winter Seasonal Beers
Learn the secrets to brewing a wintry, warming, holiday beer and check out five best of show winning recipes.
Winter Warmer: Tips from the Pros
Pro brewer Matt “Handtruck” Thrall of Avery Brewing Co. in Boulder, Colorado, shares some advice for brewing a winter warmer.
Pyment
Pyment is a product fermented with grapes and honey. This recipe also adds some tropical fruit to round out the character.
Basic Sweet Mead
A low-key, one-gallon (3.8-L) batch of mead. This is a great recipe to experiment with several different honey varietals for comparison sake.
Basic Dry Mead
A basic dry mead recipe. This is a great opportunity to test several honey varietals.
Dogfish Brewery’s Head Midas Touch clone
This beer was inspired by residue found in drinking vessels that are believed to be from the actual tomb of King Midas. Some secrets of the beverage, dated to around 700 BC, were revealed by the new methods of molecular archaeology.
The residues inside the vessels belonged to a “Phrygian cocktail,” which combined grape wine, barley beer and honey mead. Starting with the ancient chemical evidence, Dogfish Head Brewery “recreated” a marvelous golden elixir, truly touched by King Midas.
