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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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Winter’s Barleywine
This is kind of a hybrid English/American barleywine.
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Belgian Tripel: A beer deserving respect
Created within the walls of the Westmalle monastery in the 1930s, the Belgian tripel is now one of the most iconic beer styles in a country
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Gordon Strong’s Belgian Tripel
For the right Belgian character, take care to let it ferment to completion, then cool condition it for several weeks.
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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
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2-for-1 Belgian Dubble
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MASH Barrel Tripel
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Squash Tripel
An unspiced squash tripel recipe courtesy of Will Meyers, Brewmaster at Cambridge Brewing Company in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Big Island Brewhaus’ Golden Sabbath Clone
Stylistically, Golden Sabbath can be considered a slightly fuller-bodied Belgian golden strong ale. The use of local Hawaiian honey in place
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Pedal Haus Brewery’s Barrel-Aged Quad Clone
It’s a beer big in all regards: Aroma, flavor, mouthfeel, and alcohol. The beer has a full body, with enough carbonation (2.8 v/v) to give
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Jamil’s American Barleywine
The balance of bittering versus malt sweetness should always be toward the bitter, but expect the beer to become more and more balanced as t
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American Barleywine: Aged in the USA
American barleywine is rich and strong. It has a big malt flavor and aggressive hopping, but it still has a balance between the malt charact
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Greg Noonan Memorial Wee Heavy