Recipes
Fourpure Brewery’s Juicebox Citrus IPA clone
MEMBERS ONLYJuicebox is a citrus IPA packed full of orange zest and aromatic hops and is packaged by Fourpure in kegs and cans. As the essential oils are held in suspension, it’s best drunk fresh!
The Kernel Brewery’s Export India Porter clone
MEMBERS ONLYThis recipe is based on some of the Barclay Perkins (1855) and Whitbread (1856) porters that were sent out to India nearly two hundred years ago. Of course, elements of the ingredients, equipment, and processes are different, and tastes have also changed over time, so in keeping with The Kernel’s philosophy, they have made a beer that contemporary beer drinkers want to drink, rather than a blindly faithful copy of a 19th century recipe.
Weird Beard Brew Co.’s Black Perle Coffee Milk Stout clone
MEMBERS ONLYBlack 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
MEMBERS ONLYThis 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
MEMBERS ONLYKölsch (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.045 FG = 1.008 IBU= 26 SRM = 5 ABV = 4.9% Ingredients 4.4 lbs. (2 kg) Kölsch malt (3.5–4.5 °L) 4.1
Düsseldorf Altbier
MEMBERS ONLYThe 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
MEMBERS ONLYThis 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
MEMBERS ONLYDe-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
MEMBERS ONLYThe 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
MEMBERS ONLYAuthentic 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)
MEMBERS ONLYA raw ale (no-boil) Estonian farmhouse beer.
Terje Raftevold’s kornøl (Northwest Norwegian farmhouse ale)
MEMBERS ONLYA raw ale (no-boil) farmhouse ale recipe.
