Beer Style: Strong Ale Family
Strong Scotch Ale
Strong Scotch Ale (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.074 FG = 1.020IBU = 27 SRM = 19 ABV = 7.1% Ingredients15 lbs. (6.8 kg) Golden Promise malt5 oz. (142 g) debittered black
Cromarty Brewing Co.’s Pibroch Wee Heavy clone
Cromarty Brewing Co.’s Pibroch Wee Heavy clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.072 FG = 1.018IBU = 20 SRM = 20 ABV = 7.2% This wee heavy showcases a complex malt backbone
Dead End Brew Machine’s Curtis the Destroyer clone
Dead End Brew Machine’s Curtis the Destroyer clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain)OG = 1.106 FG = 1.033IBU = 55 SRM = 14 ABV = 9.6% This big barleywine is boiled for two and
Big Ben Barleywine
Big Ben Barleywine (3.3 gallons/12.5 L, all-grain)OG = 1.109 FG = 1.030IBU = 80+ SRM = 10 ABV = 10.5% Ingredients15 lbs. (6.8 kg) Maris Otter pale malt29 AAU Target hops (90
Belgian Dark Strong Ale (2017 NHC Gold)
Belgian Dark Strong Ale 13.5 gallons/51 L, all-grainOG = 1.098 FG = 1.028IBU = 24.5 SRM = 28 ABV = 9.4 This is the gold medal recipe in the Strong Belgian &
Gordon Strong’s English Barleywine
“They develop such depth when well-made, well-packaged, and well-kept, changing and maturing over the years like fine red wine.” – Gordon Strong
Gordon Strong’s Belgian Blond Ale
I’ve played around with this recipe several times, and like the balance it has now but I always have ideas of things I’d like to try. It’s a fairly simple grain bill, and I like to use Belgian malts (Dingemans, specifically) for the grains.
Wheatwine
Gordon Strong provides readers with a recipe for a wheatwine. “Stan Hieronymus writes in Brewing with Wheat that wheatwine has its origins in modern American craft brewing, but that it was not intentional. A happy accident produced a higher gravity American wheat ale. The first modern commercial version is credited to Rubicon Brewing Company (Sacramento, California) in 1988, but many breweries now produce it as a limited edition winter release. Some examples are vintage-dated and oak-aged, suggesting they likely will continue to improve with age.”
Sir Walter Scotch Ale
Pete Rahn, QC Supervisor at Magic Hat Brewing Co. provides a recipe to BYO from his homebrew collection. “My brother went to Scotland for a year. I brewed this Scotch ale the day he left and conditioned it for the year he was gone.”
The BISness Belgian Imperial Stout
Kyle Larson, Brewer at Double Mountain Brewery in Hood River, Oregon provides a recipe to BYO from his homebrew collection.
The Driveway Barley Wine
Mitch Steele, former Head Brewer and Production Manager at Stone Brewing Co., and now Brewmaster and Co-Founder of New Realm Brewing in Atlanta, Georgia, provides BYO with a recipe. “I brewed this beer with the Manchester Area Society of Homebrewers (MASH) homebrew club at my home in Bedford, New Hampshire when I was an Assistant Brewer at Anheuser-Busch in Merrimack, New Hampshire.”
