Date: January-February 2011
Brooklyn Brewery: Brooklyn Sorachi Ace
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBrooklyn Sorachi Ace marries the overall structure of the modern saison style with the unique lemony/herbal qualities of the Sorachi Ace hop. Sorachi Ace is used throughout, and very complete attenuation gives refreshing, flinty dryness.
Ninkasi Brewing Company: Racin’ Mason Irish Red Ale clone
FREEThis classic Irish red pours a dark red/copper color and features a sweet caramel and toasted malt profile.
Harold-is-Weizen (German Hefeweizen)
Digital and Plus Members OnlyJamil Zainasheff provides BYO readers with a recipe for a classic German-style hefeweizen.
Meaningful Mild
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAuthor Terry Foster provides readers an easy-drinking British mild ale.
Unorthodox Pilsner
Digital and Plus Members OnlyTerry Foster provides BYO readers with a Pilsner recipe that is so traditional in form. This recipe was designed to be more of a “session Pilsner”.
Mexican Pulque
Digital and Plus Members OnlyReaders should keep in mind that it is difficult to replicate true pulque using only the ingredients in a home brewer’s pharmacopeia. It is common for pulque brewers in Mexico to reproduce their own strains of yeast, using a starter of fermented pulque (known as the “semilla”, or seed) to ferment a fresh batch of agave nectar. These yeast strains, like many tricks of the trade, are closely guarded secrets amongst pulqueros — indeed, some of these strains of yeast may be as old as the Aztec Empire itself.
Captain Leo’s Foreign Extra Stout
FREECapt. Leo’s Foreign Extra Stout (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.074 FG = 1.020 IBU = 43 SRM = 40 ABV = 7.6%Ingredients10 lbs. (4.5 kg) domestic 2-row pale malt2 lbs.
Brewing with Belgian Candi Sugar?
FREECandy syrup or candy sugar (usually named “candi” sugar) is a fancy name for beet sugar that has been caramelized into syrup with a dark color and rich flavor. The flavor of candi sugar
Blending Yeast Strains
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI know that my conservative brewing advice probably irritates many readers and I am likely going to irritate you with my answer, so please take no offense. So let me re-state your question. You have never brewed a wheat beer before, have nothing about your subsequent wheat beer to tweak and the first thing that
Brewing Foreign Extra Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyBigger and more heavily hopped so that it could survive being exported out of England. IPA, right? Not this time. The same story applies to foreign extra stout. Find out how to brew this big stout. Plus: two extra stout recipes.
Delicious Dry Stout
Digital and Plus Members OnlyLooking for a flavorful beer that won’t floor you? Dry stout is a sumptuous session ale. Learn the keys to brewing this style. Just looking for a recipe? Find tons of great Dry Stout Recipes in our stout recipe index.
Pulque: A Mexican Indigenous Brew
Digital and Plus Members OnlySure, Mexico is the home to many lagers served in clear bottles with a lime wedged in their necks. But if you dig a little deeper, you will find that it is also the land of many indigenous brews, including pulque.