January-February 2016 Archives

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Three Floyds Brewing Company: Dark Lord clone

Dark Lord is a truly unique Russian imperial stout brewed with coffee, Mexican vanilla, and Indian sugar. It features notes of mocha and charred fruit, and has a “motor oil-like consistency.” Note the extended total boil time . . . this is not your typical evening brew session.

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Smuttynose Brewing Company: Frankenlager clone

Frankenlager is Smuttynose’s interpretation of an IPA decoction-mashed and fermented like the classic lagers of Europe. It’s crisp and refined, but certainly not meek or mild.

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Jack’s Abby Brewing: Hoponius Union clone

Hoponius Union is a lager that features a blend of popular American hops, creating a huge tropical fruit and citrusy hop aroma. A dry finish accentuates the pleasant bitterness and hop profile.

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Base Camp Brewing Company: In-Tents IPL clone

This is a labor-intensive beer to produce, utilizing a triple batch sparge, kräusening, a three-week bulk lagering period, and oak chip aging. The result is a malty and firmly hopped, oak-aged lager softened by some natural carbonation. The lager yeast allows the piney and floral aromatics to shine while the oak chips heighten the maltiness of the brew.

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Adjusting Your Brewing Water

Beer is more water than anything else, which means that water is one of the most important ingredients in a brew. And, of course, water is a catch-all term for a solution

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Adjusting Homebrew After Fermentation

Brewers often commit that five-step sequence to muscle memory. After all, a strict routine is vital in maintaining a high level of control over the countless variables affecting the beermaking process and

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India Pale Lager Clone Recipes

India Pale Lager (IPL) is a modern hybridization of the India Pale Ale (IPA) style and a (insert your own interpretation of the) “lager component” that has taken a craft beer industry

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Homebrewing Experiments

There is a lot of conventional wisdom in the world of homebrewing. Some of it is good and obvious (always keep things clean and sanitized), while some of it is a little

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Quest to Clone Three Floyds Brewing Company’s Dark Lord

Since Dark Lord Day comes but once a year, a homebrewer set out on a quest to try and make this elusive brew at home so he could drink it all year round.

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Festbier/Märzen/Oktoberfest

by the numbers OG: 1.054-1.057 FG:1.010-1.012 SRM:4-7 IBU:18-25 ABV:5.8-6.3 Many American beer enthusiasts look forward to autumn seasonal beers, often with their malty, stronger flavors. One particular style that is popular is

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Cleaning Wort Chillers, Mash Hopping: Mr. Wizard

Q I’m Requesting your advice for cleaning and care of copper wort chillers. Like other brewers, after the cool down I pull my wort chiller out of the pot and it’s usually

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Recipe Development: Tips from the Pros

Finding a homebrew recipe isn’t difficult — we have printed hundreds in BYO over the years, for instance— but there is something about developing your own homebrew recipe that is always appealing.

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Peekskill Brewery’s Malt Balls Brown Ale: Replicator

Dear Replicator, We don’t really have a homebrew club where I live, but there are about six to eight of us who get together once a month to taste our homebrews. This

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