Topic: Beer Styles
Lawnmower Beer Recipes
When you’ve just weed-whacked the back forty, you need a beer that tastes great and quenches your thirst. Recipes and step-by-step instructions for light, dry, balanced summer beers that finish clean.
Hop to Style!
Cascade works well with a West Coast Pale Ale. Fuggle should finish an English bitter. Galena or Cluster go great with porter. Here’s a straightforward guide to picking the right hops for your favorite style of beer.
Brewing Stout: Tips from the Pros
Some expert advice on developing a well-balanced recipe for smooth stout.
Perfect Porter
Porter was born in London in 1722 and for years was the most popular pint in the working-class pubs. After nearly disappearing, the style was brought back in the 1970s and is enjoying a modern-day revival on both sides of the Atlantic. Tips, techniques and step-by-step recipes from Terry Foster, the man who literally wrote the book on porter.
Making Big Holiday Beers
It’s the time of year for holiday beers! Many of these heavyweight winter seasonals are high-alcohol brews — monster beers that are big, malty and have a bite. You don’t have to be a mad scientist to make one, but brewing a high-gravity beer involves much more than piling on the malt. Your guide to brewing huge holiday beers, complete with eight recipes.
Brewing Doppelbock: Tips from the Pros
Dan Carey of New Glarus and Alec Mull of Kalamazoo offer doppelbock tips (and recipes).
Brewing Smoked Beers: Tips from the Pros
Expert advice on brewing smoked beers and smoking your malt at home.
The Beers of Franconia, Germany
Nestled in northern Bavaria, this region of Germany is home to a startling diversity of beer styles.
Brewing Lawnmower Beers: Tips from the Pros
Slake your summer thirst with a lawnmower beer.
Old-World Alt
An American brewer flies to Germany to learn how to brew altbier, the traditional top-fermented ale that made Dusseldorf famous. He talked to brewers, tasted his share of alt and came home with the inside dope on malt, hops, yeast strains and fermentation, plus an authentic recipe straight from a brewer’s mouth.
Great Scot!
A homebrewer wanders through Scotland and returns with all the firsthand knowledge you’ll need to brew classic “shilling” ales and wee heavies at home. Plus: masterful tips from Scottish beer expert Greg Noonan, and extract and all-grain recipes for 60-shilling, 70-shilling, 80-shilling, wee heavy, heather ale and grozet.
Vienna Lager
Recipes & tips for two classic beer styles.
