Beer Style: Specialty Beer Family
Bell’s Brewery’s Song Of The Open Road clone
Song of the Open Road will pour a nice shade of brown with garnet notes. The hearty ale is best served in a snifter glass and will pair well with rich desserts, a fine cigar or, of course, the literary works of Walt Whitman.
Small-Scale Sour Beer Brewing
Understand how to produce sour and funky beers for your small brewery from a fellow craft brewer and author of the book American Sour Beers, Michael Tonsmeire. You’ll cover wort production, growing
Gordon Strong’s Sahti
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.099 FG = 1.038IBU = 9 SRM = 16 ABV = 9% Ingredients15.5 lbs. (7 kg) Pilsner malt2 lbs. (0.91 kg) dark Munich malt2 lbs. (0.91 kg)
Castle Danger Brewery’s Nordic Sahti clone
(5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.053 FG = 1.011IBU = 26 SRM = 7 ABV = 5.5% Ingredients8 lbs. (3.6 kg) Pilsen malt1.25 lbs. (567 g) Briess caramel malt (10 °L)1 lb.
One Drop Brewing Co’s Double Mango Passionfruit Sorbet
One Drop Brewing Co’s Double Mango Passionfruit Sorbet (7 gallons/26.5 L, all-grain)OG = 1.074 (pre-souring) FG = 1.025IBU = 5 ABV = 7% A full-bodied and thick imperial smoothie style sour showcasing
MASH Barrel Red Sour
MASH Barrel Red Sour (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.075 FG = 1.012IBU = 14 SRM = 15 ABV = 8.3% After the first MASH barrel had already soured we continued to
MASH Barrel Tripel
MASH Barrel Tripel (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.080 FG = 1.009IBU = 33 SRM = 4 ABV = 9.4% This is the fourth recipe members of the MASH homebrew club brewed
Traditional Pumpkin Ale
Gordon Strong’s traditional amber spiced pumpkin ale recipe, a classic example of what would come to mind if you ordered a pumpkin beer a decade ago.
Squash Tripel
An unspiced squash tripel recipe courtesy of Will Meyers, Brewmaster at Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
Piwo Grodziskie
Piwo Grodziskie (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.037 FG = 1.007 IBU = 30 SRM = 4 ABV = 3.9% Ingredients7 lbs. (3.2 kg) oak-smoked wheat malt0.6 lb. (0.27 kg) German pale ale
Up in Smoke
Rauchbier is the most famous beer brewed with smoked malt. Scott Burgess fell in love with the style while living for a decade in the rauchbier epicenter of the world — Bamberg, Germany. He explores the differences between some of the best examples and shares how homebrewers can brew their own rauchbier.
Bierkeller Rauchbier clone
Bierkeller Rauchbier captures some of the depth of smokiness and dryness (and color) of Schlenkerla’s famed rauchbier as well as some of the rusticity and sweetness of the beer brewed at Spezial (especially their Märzen).
