Recipe Type: All Grain
Weird Beard Brew Co.’s Black Perle Coffee Milk Stout clone
Black Perle is one of the first beers Weird Beard produced commercially and still forms part of their core range in bottles and traditional cask. It takes its name from German Perle with which it is single-hopped. It’s a sweet stout with a rich coffee backbone.
Wild Card Brewery’s King of Hearts Blonde clone
This is a slightly modified version of the recipe for King of Hearts, one of Wild Card’s core range of beers. It’s a light and refreshing pale beer with fresh aromas and a clean finish.
Cologne Kölsch
The word Kölsch has several connotations in the German language. If used as a noun, it refers to the distinct Cologne dialect and accent. As an adjective, it means “anything from Cologne.” Thus, it is a local joke that Kölsch is the only language that you can also drink!
Düsseldorf Altbier
The grain bill of the classic copper-colored altbier — which is internationally also known as a German Brown Ale — is almost Munich-like, but with a slightly less “caramelly” character than a Märzen, and less dark than a dunkel. It differs from a Munich brew, however, in its much more pronounced hoppiness. This creates a wonderful blend of malt-and-hop aromas in the finish, which is often described as bitter-sweet. The uniqueness of this beer — an ale after all — comes from the clean fermentation of a relatively cold-tolerant, top-fermenting specialty yeast.
German Pils
This beer is hearty but very drinkable. It is hop-spicy upfront, with a solid mouthfeel and a crisp finish. Many German breweries nowadays make a Pils with much less hop character and a lower gravity than specified here, but this recipe is closer to the original guidelines for making this beer as it might have been brewed in the 19th century.
Thuringian Schwarzbier
De-husked roasted malts like Carafa® III are an ideal solution to darken the color of schwarzbiers as they don’t have any sharp acrid notes as highly kilned malts do. This makes a surprisingly smooth dark lager.
Munich Helles
The bittering hop selected here is the Mittelfrüh-like, daughter of Hallertau Gold, Tradition with a nominal average alpha acid rating of 5.5%. It has gentle fruity notes. However, any other German noble hops would work as well. The flavor and aroma hops are, fittingly, Mittelfrüh.
Munich Dunkel
Authentic dunkels rely on Munich malts to provide color, without the roastiness or burnt flavors often associated with darker beers.
Paavo Pruul’s koduõlu (western Estonian farmhouse ale)
A raw ale (no-boil) Estonian farmhouse beer.
Terje Raftevold’s kornøl (Northwest Norwegian farmhouse ale)
A raw ale (no-boil) farmhouse ale recipe.
Dream Cream Ale
With such a high percentage of flaked grains, some rice hulls maybe a good addition to the mash in order to help loosen things up.
It’s Fun to Stay at the RyeMPA
It’s Fun to Stay at the RyeMPA (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.075 FG = 1.015 IBU = 60 SRM = 10 ABV = 8% Ingredients 10 lbs.
