July/August 2008

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Ithaca Beer Company: IPAbbey clone

By Marc Martin

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Red Rock Brewing Co.’s Pecome Blonde clone

By Glenn BurnSilver

This beer has since been retired, but you can still brew up this Belgian blonde ale with this recipe. Feel free to allow fermentation temperature to rise if you would like the yeast to be more expressive.

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Allagash Brewing Co.’s Tripel clone

By Glenn BurnSilver

Allagash Tripel is a complex and delicious version of the Belgian classic. According to the brewery, the beer features herbal notes and passion fruit, with hints of banana and honey.

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The Lost Abbey: Devotion Ale clone

By Glenn BurnSilver

This Belgian-style blonde ale is light bodied and hop driven. It has a low level of yeast phenols and instead a lot of the spicy character comes from the aromatic hops.

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Brewery Ommegang: Witte clone

By Glenn BurnSilver

This is a traditional, Belgian-style wheat ale. Soft, hazy, and offering the characteristic Belgian phenols from the yeast along with the gentle taste of coriander and orange.

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Belgian Pale Ale

By Jamil Zainasheff

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Equipping a kegerator with gas on the outside

By BYO Staff

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Beers dispensed with nitrogen

By BYO Staff

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Gettin’ Down Wit a Kiss O’ Hops (Wheat Beer)

By Dave Green

A low-ABV farmhouse beer style beer, meant for consumption after a long, hot day toiling in the fields. The turbid mash and unmalted grains help provide grainy character while the yeast is the main driver. Adding some a mild Brett yeast can be a fun twist. Brewers can substitute in flaked grains if berries are hard to come by.

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Hazed & Confused

By Dave Green

While originally brewed with a wit yeast, I thought a saison yeast might play nicely in the mix as well. The pepper hints from the Saaz and grains of paradise melded nicely while the orange provide a slight citrus character.

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Amber Waves of Wheat (Wheat Beer)

By Dave Green

If you’re looking for an experimental brewing technique, turbid mashing is a fun one to experiment with. This recipe provides outlines to brew up a low-ABV, Belgian-inspired, turbid-mashed beer. Get your stuykmanden ready!

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Turbid Mashing

By Dave Green

A turbid mash will produce a cloudy, dextrinous wort that has great potential to add an interesting twist to many beer styles.

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Yeast Pitching Rates

By John Palmer

How much yeast do you need to pitch in an ale? How about a lager? John Palmer walks us through the science of the pitch rate.