Date: October 2013
Dry-Hopped Hard Cider Recipe
Digital and Plus Members Onlyby Bryan Holmes • Citizen Cider, Essex, Vermont (5 gallons/19 L)OG = 1.060 FG = 0.998 ABV = ~8% Ingredients5.5 gallons (21 L) sweet apple cider1.5–2 lbs. (0.7–0.9 kg) sugar1 package dry Champagne yeastFermentation nutrients (e.g. Fermaid K, DAP)Yeast rehydration nutrient (e.g. Fermaid Protect)Potassium metabisulfate (KMS) or Campden tabletsPectinaseCascade Hops (whole or pellets)Potassium sorbate (optional) Step
Lawson’s Finest Liquids’ Toast clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyLawson’s Finest Liquids’ Toast clone (5 gallons/19 L, all-grain) OG = 1.059 FG = 1.013 IBU = 70 SRM = 33 ABV = 5.9% Ingredients 11 lbs. (5 kg) 2-row pale malt 8 oz. (0.23 kg) toasted barley flakes 8 oz. (0.23 kg) toasted rye flakes 6 oz. (0.17 kg) Weyermann Carafa® Special III malt
The Alchemist’s Holey Moley clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyJohn Kimmich says that this beer was “dry hopped extensively with Cascade and Amarillo® hops,” which makes me believe he either used a lot of dry hops in one stage or dry hopped this beer in two stages.”
Cloning Beers for Beginners
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThere are hundreds of resources available to homebrewers looking to clone the world’s most popular beers. But, inevitably, we’ve all stumbled upon that obscure brew that flies below the radar — be it a brew at the local pub or a limited release seasonal beer that came and left all too soon. Don’t fret, just
Drill-Powered Carboy Cleaner
Digital and Plus Members OnlyI honestly can’t pinpoint exactly what got me started in homebrewing. I was looking for a new hobby and literally stumbled into it. I kid you not, before I brewed a batch, before I had bought a single grain, I had already transformed a cooler into a mash lauter tun, made a copper immersion wort
Cowboy Alt
Digital and Plus Members OnlyJamil Zainasheff provides a classic Düsseldorf altbier recipe for readers here. You can find the full Style Profile column in the articles section to delve deeper into this style.
HammerSmith Ales English IPA
Digital and Plus Members OnlyRecipe from Christopher Bowen’s brewing log. This is a recipe that won a gold medal and best of show at the 2007 Great American Beer Festival in the ProAM catagory, a silver medal at the AHA regional and a gold medal at the Kona Beer Festival in 2008. It is based off of a 19th century recipe from Samuel Allsopp and Sons LTD, circa 1860s. English brewers used tons of American hops in many beers during the 19th and 20th centuries. This was dry-hopped with Chinook, but other than that I used all East Kent Goldings. Chinook is a distantly related cultivar of the Petham Golding.
Freetail Brewing Company’s La Muerta Imperial Stout clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyFreetail describes La Muerta as, “A big, lush imperial stout . . . full of roast, smoke and chocolate flavors from an array of specialty malts.”
Hill Farmstead Brewery’s Everett clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyNamed for Brewmaster Shaun Hill’s grandfather’s brother, this porter is brewed using American malted barley, English and German roasted malts, American hops, and the Hill Farmstead house ale yeast. It features deep dark flavors of coffee and chocolate.
The Alchemist: Heady Topper clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe Alchemist specializes in fresh, unfiltered IPAs, and Heady Topper is the brewery’s crown jewel. Featuring a proprietary blend of six hops, this beer boasts a complex and unique bouquet of hop flavor without any astringent bitterness.
Lawson’s Finest Liquids: Double Sunshine clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyDouble Sunshine is a sought-after Vermont Double IPA. It’s packed with juicy tropical fruit flavors and bright herbal aromas thanks to the abundance of US-grown Citra hops.
Hill Farmstead Brewery: Abner clone
Digital and Plus Members OnlyPart of Hill Farmstead’s “Ancesteral Series,” Abner was named for Brewmaster Shaun Hill’s great-grandfather, who once owned the land where the brewery now stands. Described as “aromatic and flowery, bursting with notes of citrus and pine,” Abner is just one of the reasons why so many beer lovers make the pilgrimage to Vermont’s Northeast Kingdom to visit the brewery each year.