Beer Style: Wheat Beer Family
Poblano Wit
FREEPoblano Wit (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.064 FG = 1.012 IBU = 15 SRM = 4 ABV = 6.6% I’ve made this beer over a dozen times and most of
Bell’s Brewery’s Oberon clone
MEMBERS ONLYOberon is a wheat ale fermented with Bell’s Brewery’s signature house ale yeast, mixing a spicy hop character with mildly fruity aromas, often causing many to assume there is an addition of fruit or spices. The addition of wheat malt lends a smooth mouthfeel, making it a classic summer beer. Oberon is one of Bell’s best-selling beers, even though it’s only available from March-August each year.
German Wheat/Hefeweizen
MEMBERS ONLYA well-brewed Bavarian hefeweizen is one of the finest beers to enjoy on a warm summer day while the barbecue is going.
Hippie Farm
MEMBERS ONLYHippie Farm is a light and refreshing saison that marries the flavors of a simple, traditional farmhouse-style saison with hints of lemon and lavender.
Session Saison
MEMBERS ONLYAlready a dry, thirst-quenching style, this saison is brewed to a more sessionable ABV so you can drink a couple on a hot summer day without wiping yourself out.
Rapscallion Tangerine Ginger Wit
MEMBERS ONLYThis recipe is a light wit with a magnified dry finish due to the light addition of ginger.
Lemon Lime Gose
MEMBERS ONLYThis recipe is our play on the traditional Gose and is a big hit with our customers every time it comes out in the summer.
Yogi Berliner
MEMBERS ONLYThis Berliner weisse recipe creates a quick soured ale by using 4 oz. of acidulated malt and a live yogurt culture
A Beer to Guard
MEMBERS ONLYRecipe author Horst Dornbusch states of the style, “The brew is not refined, but it is not coarse either. Instead, it is full-bodied and hearty, slightly fruity, unabashedly strong in alcohol and has a medium hoppiness — but with a powerfully malty, almost Port-like, finish. Bière de garde is clearly a sipping, not a quaffing, beer. I simply love bière de garde . . . but when it comes to beer, I’m a hopeless romantic!”
Petit Saison
MEMBERS ONLYThe inspiration for this beer was a play on De Baets’ remarks that traditional saisons were low gravity and heavily hopped. When it was still brewed with the Rodenbach strain, De Ranke’s XX Bitter was a rough approximation of a traditional saison, but with its cleaner character today you’ll have to brew your own for a taste of history. This recipe makes for a refreshing summer beer with the gravity dialed down and aromatics pushed to the fore.
Summer Cellar BdG
MEMBERS ONLYBiére de Garde’s are a remarkably flexible beer that can be brewed as a pale, amber, or brown, depending on your preferences, pairings, or the season of service. This recipe aims right down the middle in terms of the style and its color/flavor options, and is a gold-medal-winning amber Bière de Garde (at the 2012 BUZZ Off, hosted by the BUZZ Homebrew Club in West Chester, Pennsylvania).
Rustic French Ale
MEMBERS ONLYThis recipe will create a French-style ale that is similar to Brasserie Thiriez’s Blonde d’Esquelbecq. Brewer Daniel Thiriez recommends using French Pilsner malt if you can source it.