Beer Style: Spice, Herb and Vegetable Beer
Weyerbacher Brewing Company: Imperial Pumpkin Ale clone
This hearty, full-bodied, spicy pumpkin ale is rich with cinnamon, nutmeg, cardamom, and clove.
Southern Tier Brewing Company: Warlock clone
Warlock is a jet-black, high-ABV spice beer. The rich cocoa flavors are well-balanced by the residual cinnamon and ginger notes, with complementary flavors of vanilla, nutmeg and clove.
Smuttynose Brewing Company: Pumpkin Ale clone
“This beer was designed to have some nice sweetness created by a mix of caramel malts and we wanted a decent hop presence as well. Over the years we’ve reduced the amount of cloves we’ve added as that one spice always seems to be the one to throw things out of balance. If I was brewing this at home I’d go easy on the clove and add more in later batches if needed.” ~ David Yarrington, Brewmaster
Captain Lawrence Brewing Company: Pumpkin Ale clone
This beer is brewed with pureed pumpkins that are added directly to the mash, while pumpkin pie spices are added to the end of the boil. The finished amber ale is malty and smooth.
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!: Route des épices (Spice route) clone
This is a malty rye ale spiced with peppercorns. It features rich chocolate and rye grain flavors, a medium body balance and a peppery finish. If you want the peppercorns to stay in the fermenter, you can bag them with the final hops addition. If you follow that process, the cooled wort with the peppercorns can go right from the kettle into the fermenter.
Brasserie Dieu du Ciel!: Rosée d’hibiscus (Pinkish hibiscus) clone
Very pink, very floral, very crisp and light bodied — very drinkable! This beer’s color and aroma are quite eye-catching and aromatic. Look for dried hibiscus flowers at your local food coop, health food store or from any local or online dried herb retailer.
Närke Kulturbryggeri: Tanngnjostr & Tanngrisnir clone
Berith Karlsson, from Närke Kulturbryggeri, said of this smoked doppelbock spiced with juniper twigs, “being a double bock lager, (it) is named after the two goats pulling the wagon of Thor, the god of thunder.”
Fort George Brewery’s Spruce Budd Ale clone
A true spring beer. Be sure to harvest the spruce tips as they are emerging from the buds and the needles are still a light green color.
Wynkoop Brewing Company: Patty’s Chili Beer clone
Patty’s Chili Beer is aged with Anaheim and ancho peppers, resulting in a golden ale with lots of pepper flavors and aromas, but just a mild heat.
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout clone
Young’s Double Chocolate Stout clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.053 FG = 1.013 IBU = 28 SRM = 35 ABV = 5.2% Ingredients 7 lbs. (3.2 kg) pale ale malt
Autumn Seasonal Beer
by the numbers Some examples, such as pumpkin beers, mimic many of the food flavors found on the Thanksgiving table. OG: Varies FG:Varies SRM:Varies, typically 11–19 IBU:Varies, typically low ABV:Varies, typically >
Brewing with Vegetables
There are hundreds of recipes designed to sneak vegetables into kids’ food: Beet-chocolate cupcakes or cauliflower-crust pizza, anyone? What if you want a more adult solution to vegetable consumption? Whereas fruit has