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Wheat Beer Family
Often perfect for summer, Wheat beer includes Belgian wit, German Hefeweizen, and farmhouse/saison recipes from Belgium and France.
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Berliner Weisse (Napoleon’s Champagne)
The biggest challenge to making a Berliner weisse is making a light, clean base beer, then rapidly souring it with bacteria. You need to sou
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Pierre, South Dakota Witbier
Belgian wit (white) beers are very pale, turbid beers with a balanced spiced character and a crisp “zing.” These traits make for an appe
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The 10 Hardest Beer Styles to Homebrew
Witbier. Wee Heavey. Tripel. Schwartzbier. Gueze. Eisbock. Dry Stout. Berliner Weisse. American Pilsner – are these the 10 most difficult st
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Saison
From old Belgian farmhouses to new North American breweries, brewers everywhere are rediscovering the charms of this hoppy, spicy beer fo
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Wheat: The Oldest Grain
Wheat beers — whether German hefeweizens, Belgian wits or any of the other classic styles of wheat beers — are great beers. But wheat
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The 10 Easiest Beer Styles
It’s Brew Your Own’s Tenth Anniversary and we’re kicking off a year-long series of articles with our list of the 10 most approachable
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Fine Wheatwine
Wheatwine is potent, difficult to brew and decidly different. Which is why every intrepid homebrewer should give it a whirl.
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Biére de Garde
A style all its own, really, Biére de Garde’s closest related beer would be Saisons. But Biére de Garde’s often will lack the spicy yeast
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Aventinus Weizenbock clone
Weizenbock is a strong, wheat-based Bock Lager.
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Brewing Weiss: Tips from the Pros
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Brewing Hefeweizen: Tips from the Pros
Brewing Hefe with the Pros…
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Haystack Wheat
A Belgian wheat beer base with equal parts coriander, cumin, ginger, wintergreen, and star anise; ground and mixed thoroughly to add just a