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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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Belgian Dark Strong Ale (2017 NHC Gold)
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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 St
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English Barleywine: My favorite winter beer
Do you have a favorite winter-time beer? For Gordon Strong, an English barleywine is his personal preference. Explore the depths of this bee
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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
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Wheatwine
Gordon Strong provides readers with a recipe for a wheatwine. “Stan Hieronymus writes in Brewing with Wheat that wheatwine has its origins i
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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 Scotla
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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.
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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 Atla
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Parti Like It’s 1700
Parti-gyle is an under-utilized technique in the brewing world, which is capable of producing multiple beer types during a single brew day.
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Dogfish Head Craft Brewery’s Raison D’etre clone
According to Dogfish Head’s website “A deep mahogany, Belgian-style brown ale brewed with beet sugar, raisins and Belgian-style yeast.”
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Belgian Dubbel
We decided on a simple grain bill for our dubbel to allow the yeast to express that Belgian character of fruity esters and some spicy phenol
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Belgian Tripel
This tripel has a standard grain bill and a process like our Belgian dubbel with one twist —the addition of Weyermann Abbey malt. The Abbe