May-June 2015 Archives - Brew Your Own

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Build a Keg & Carboy Cleaner

Cleaning kegs and carboys can be a real chore. In search of a way to make it easier, The core assembly components of my cleaner are made of PVC — resulting in

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Cooking with Malt Extract

In addition to the purpose we know it best for — making beer — malt extract can be a tremendous ingredient to keep on hand in the kitchen. Next time you find

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Barrel-Aged Craft Beer Clone Homebrew Recipes

“Curieux is a fairly simple recipe starting with our Tripel, which is then aged in bourbon barrels and blended with another batch of fresh Tripel. The vast majority of brewers here started

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Oak Alternatives & Oaking Methods

The use of oak and other woods in flavoring beer has enjoyed a resurgence recently among homebrewers and some craft breweries. Oak is commonly used in winemaking, and was once widely used

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The Bruery: Mash clone

The specifications for this English-style barleywine are all pre-barrel aging numbers. After aging in a bourbon barrel, the beer is above 13% ABV.

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Sun King Brewing Company: Tequila Barrel-Aged Fistful of Hops clone

“Fistful of Hops is a quarterly rotating seasonal IPA, which means every three months the hops change. We usually combine two to three varieties of hops together for each new release. The same varieties and proportion of hops are used all the way through the recipe including dry hopping.” – Dave Colt, Sun King Brewery

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Perennial Artisan Ales’ Devil’s Heart of Gold clone

This is a recipe for Devil’s Heart of Gold, a whiskey barrel–aged wheat wine. The base beer, Heart of Gold, won a silver medal at the Great American Beer Festival in 2012.

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Jester King Brewery: Das Uberkind clone

“Das Uberkind is our most used and versatile barrel-aged beer. We blend it with fresh, hoppy beer to make Das Wunderkind! We use it as the base beer for most of our fruit refermentation beers, and we also package it as a standalone beer.” – Garrett Cromwell, Head Brewer, Jester King Brewery

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Rockford Brewing Co.’s Rockford Country Ale clone

This unfiltered French farmhouse-style Bière de Garde ale features a copper color and the yeast lends estery notes of pear and apricot.

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Allagash Brewing Company: Curieux clone

“Curieux is a fairly simple recipe starting with our Tripel, which is then aged in bourbon barrels and blended with another batch of fresh Tripel.” – Michael O’Connor, Allagash Brewing Company

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Brewing With Lactobacillus

Why does Brettanomyces get all of the attention when it isn’t even responsible for making sour beers sour? Lactobacillus can do in a week what takes Pediococcus a year! Lactobacillus needs a

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Properly Priming Your Homebrew

For many people today, soda is the first beverage that comes to mind when thinking of carbonation. Yet it may well be that the first such beverage was beer. That’s because evidence

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Calculating Sugar Additions for Carbonation

Joining a few friends for a nice cold beer with a bright frothy head is a time- honored tradition, here in the US and around the world. In fact the carbonation, foam,

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Experimental Pilot Program at Anheuser-Busch InBev

First up was Brewmaster Rod Read’s initial crack at brewing a light India pale lager. Read referred to the bottle in front of me as a “chip beer,” meaning it had just

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Making Barrel-Aged Homebrews

I started barrel aging beer over a decade ago after attending a National Homebrewers Conference. It is amazing to watch the trend start up again with the little guys and trickle up

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Brewing Historical Porters & Stouts

I have attempted to brew versions of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century porters and stouts that do not always fit our modern definitions, but are simply good beers in their own right. In other

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Hop Utilization, Prepping a Barrel & Yeast Washing: Mr. Wizard

Q I use a hop spider to reduce the amount of debris in my chilled wort prior to transferring it into my carboy for fermentation. The hop spider is a 5-gallon (19-L)

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Pairing Beer and Food: Tips from the Pros

For a long time, a wine that is served with a meal has been selected based on the foods they are accompanying. While beer used to be overlooked in many high-end dining

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Rockford Brewing Co.’s Rockford Country Ale: Replicator

Dear Replicator, I have to say that my experience with farmhouse style beers had not been good. I’m more of a pale ale, IPA guy. That all changed when my brewing buddy

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Czech Pale Lager

A Czech Pale Lager is the lower alcohol little brother of the Czech Pilsner, and here is a recipe from a native of Czech Republic. The production methods are fairly unique, so if you’re looking for something different than your normal brew sessions, this recipe could be for you.

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Czech Pale Lager

If you’re in the mood for lower-alcohol beer with character, Czech pale lager is a nice alternative to making session IPAs or English bitters. Recipe by Petr Bachan • Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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RPB’s Lede Lager

RPB’s Lede Lager (5 gallon/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.060 FG = 1.014 IBU = 62 SRM = 13 ABV = 6.2% Ingredients 9 lbs. (4.1 kg) 2-row pale malt 2.5 lbs.

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RPB’s Doodle

One of the fun things about the RPB is the ability to brew very unique beers. This recipe is Brewmaster Rod Read’s attempt to brew a beer that tastes like a snickerdoodle cookie.

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