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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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Old Cthulhiar (a.k.a. Very Old And Very Peculiar)
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Big Beers, Done Right
Get some pointers to brew the big ABV beers this cold-weather season.
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Ode to val d’or
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Recipe
Gordon Strong’s Belgian Dark Strong Ale
I’m presenting a fairly complex recipe that uses layers of malt flavor to build a solid base that displays the yeast character well.
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Belgian Dark Strong Ale: A quad by any other name
For those that love big, bold Trappist-style beers, the Belgian dark strong ale is the pinnacle. Learn some of the secrets to crafting a ver
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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s Burton Baton clone
Mark Sarfarik, Dogfish Head’s Brewmaster, provided us with all the juicy details about this beer. “Burton Baton is a 10% ABV imperial IP
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Great Lakes Brewing Co.’s Christmas Ale clone
By Cleveland tradition, the annual release of Christmas Ale effectively marks the official start of the holiday season in The Forest City.
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Drop-In Brewing Co.’s Heart of Lothian clone
In terms of style, the beer is considered a Scottish 90/- or wee heavy and uses, “Scottish Golden Promise barley malt, British floor-malte
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Two Roads Brewing Company’s Route of All Evil clone
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New Belgium Brewing Trippel clone
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Strong Scotch Ale
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Cromarty Brewing Co.’s Pibroch Wee Heavy clone