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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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Sunflower Seed Dark Hefeweizen
This recipe takes advantage of the head retention power of wheat to blend in some flavors of toasted sunflower seeds. Sunflower seeds are ve
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Pecan Doppelbock
I chose a doppelbock because of its rich, full-bodied, caramel malty flavor, blanketed light hop aroma with a light ruby-hazed color. This s
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Smoked Pumpkin Seed Saison
Pumpkin spice ales and lagers are the most common styles of this gourd-like brew, but the saison style has some peppery spice undertones I t
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Tapping Into Maple Beers
The perfect maple beer has long been a dream of many a brewer.
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Maple Amber Lager
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Candy Cap Mushroom Imperial Stout
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Brewing with Mushrooms
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Winter Seasonal Beers: Winter warmers, Christmas beers, and holiday treats
With the onset of winter in the Northern Hemisphere, winter warmers can be found on beer shelves everywhere. This year, make your own best v
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Gordon Strong’s Winter Seasonal Beer
I’ve been making Christmas beers since my fifth batch and this version has several of my favorite ingredients and combinations, and is ric
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Alem Bier’s Muscat Brett Saison clone
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Cervejaria UNIKA’s Catharina Sour with Strawberry & Coffee clone
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To Better Times (Farmhouse Table Beer)