July-August 2013
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Sasquatch Brewing Company’s OSA (Oregon Session Ale) clone
Willamette hops with flaked grains provide a nice, crushable session ale, able to quench the thirst of even a Sasquatch.
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Sasquatch Brewing Company: Replicator
Dear Replicator, Last fall I made a trip up to that great beer city, Portland, Oregon, to visit a good friend. He took me to the southwest part of town to Sasquatch
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Selecting Hops
Whether it’s a double IPA from which the hops literally jump from the glass to punch you in the mouth, or a stout where the hop characteristics are more subtle and used
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Horst’s Kölsch
One of Germany’s summer session beers, Kölsch is a fairly recent development by beer-historical standards. The style has no exact birthday, but instead emerged gradually as a beer style in Cologne shortly after World War I. Frequent contributor Horst Dornbusch provides BYO readers with a recipe for this style of beer.
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Horst’s Helles
Author and frequent contributor, Horst Dornbusch provides readers with a classic Munich Helles recipe, restrained in hop character with a sweet-grainy malt finish and just enough hop bite to keep it nicely balanced.
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Steve’s 50 Eisbock
Eisbock’s are a rare beast and an interesting endeavor to craft one yourself. Find a recipe and step by step instructions
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Deschutes Hop Trip Fresh Hop Beer clone
Looking for a wet-hopped (fresh hops) beer recipe? Lucky for us homebrewers, Deschutes was willing to share their recipe for their awesome Hop Trip Fresh Hop Beer. According to their website, “Vine to kettle in less than four hours, we wait restlessly all year for the hop harvest celebration. After bagging these aromatic jewels, we hustle back and toss them into the brew kettles within hours of picking. It’s our one chance to capture the bright citrus and pine essence of fresh hops.”
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Fresh Hop Black IPA
This beer is malty, smooth, with strong hop bitterness, and a wonderful fresh hop aroma to round it out. The use of Midnight Wheat (a dark grain without the harsh bitterness of many dark malts) gives this beer a lack of astringency common in dark beers. Then kick the hop aroma up a notch with the fresh hops and you will love this beer!
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Portland U-Brew and Pub Fresh Hop IPA
Fresh hopped (wet-hop) IPA with just a enough malt back bone to stand up to the big hop character provided by the Citra® hops.
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Reminder Rings & Filler Hooks
As homebrewers, we all create our own “small builds” — the minor tweaks we make to improve our brew setups. They’re the small stuff that just makes the brew day a little easier, quicker or less accident-prone. Things like the filling hook that allow you to fill your brewpot or carboy without having to hold the hose and reminder rings so you don’t forget your secondary additions.
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Yeast Have Hearts
With six years experience as a yeast cell biologist, and 10 as a homebrewer, I appreciate the intricacies of yeast. These single-cell organisms have many notable attributes including the ability to make bread
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Recipe Creation
Many of you will reach a point where you want to construct your own recipe from scratch, even though there is a huge range of recipes already available in books, magazines, on
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Brewing with Fresh Hops
When it comes to brewing, which came first — fresh hops or dried? It’s a classic chicken or egg conundrum. But we know this: Somewhere in time, in an unknown location, a
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Helles and Kölsch: Germany’s Session Beers
Nothing goes with summer like the bottom-fermented helles from Munich and the top-fermented Kölsch from Cologne.
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Eisbock: Style Profile
It is amazing how rich our memories can be. Every time I think about eisbock, several moments in my life leap to mind, complete with flavors and aromas. I recall the time
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Eisbock Tips from the Pros
Getting your hands on an eisbock in the U.S. can be difficult because of federal and state laws around distillation that limit the amount of ice commercial brewers may remove to concentrate
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High Gravity Brewing
The Wiz aims high to help a reader trying to make high alcohol beers.
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Glassware for Your Brew
Present your carefully crafted homebrew in a manner that shows off all of its attributes.
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2013 BYO Label Contest Winners
And the winners are…
