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Strong Ale Family
Strong Ale includes beer styles with high alcohol levels and robust flavors, such as barleywine, wee heavy, and Belgian strong ales.
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Starkbierfest
Lesser known than Oktoberfest, Munich’s spring beer festival Starkbierfest (Strong Beer Festival) is every bit as fun. We take you inside
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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” barleywine that’s slightly updated to modern ingredients and a change in histo
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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
This beer was meant to mimic the “local” ingredient of a Dole Whip, a frozen pineapple-laden whipped treat originally found at the Encha
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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