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Wee Heavy: The Strong Scotch Ale

Strong Scotch ale, or wee heavy, is a rich, warming beer with a full-bodied, chewy, sweet malt profile. There are many approaches homebrewer

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Go Big!

There is more to brewing a big beer than upping all of the ingredients. These beer styles test the limits of mash tank capacity, yeast healt

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The King’s Diamonds

This is a riff on Drew’s classic “Queen’s Diamonds” that’s slightly updated to modern ingredients and a change in history. Note th

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Gordon Strong’s Strong Scotch Ale

This wee heavy strikes a good compromise between strength and drinkability. It uses homebrew techniques like kettle caramelization, but othe

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The Brewing Lair’s BLT clone

A hoppy Belgian tripel brewed with Mosaic® hops added at the end of the boil and as dry hops.

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Dole Whip Tripel

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Browniewine

Volume-wise, booze-wise, and holy crap-wise, this still remains our “biggest” collaboration to date (only Sierra Nevada brews more beer

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Belgian Dubbel

Belgian dubbel will always have a place in Gordon Strong’s heart because it’s the first style he brewed all-grain many years ago. While

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KISS Barleywine

This barleywine gets all of its fermentable sugars from malt extract. It’s easier and much less time-consuming than brewing all-grain barl

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All Together Ale

This is the classic method for brewing barleywines — of an extended three-hour boil to reach the extremely high-gravity wort that will go

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Gordon Strong’s Belgian Dubbel

Belgian dubbel will always have a place in Gordon Strong’s heart because it’s the first style he brewed all-grain many years ago. While

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Old Ale

Old ale is a style that is difficult to define given how many variations there are. Gordon Strong does his best to offer some guidelines aro