STANDARD AMERICAN LAGER

Apologies for the absence. The most popular session beer in the world?  As I've said before on this blog, I'm not a macro lager hater, they have their place and the big breweries know how to brew this tricky style well.  So this time I thought I would...

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SAISON

One of my favorite styles and something I plan on brewing more often.  Historically brewed in the spring to last through the summer months when it's too hot to brew. This version is brewed in the "farmhouse" tradition and uses some oddball grains.  From my understanding, traditional Saisons...

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MUNICH HELLES

A light golden, clean, and very drinkable lager that's perfect for summer especially when brewed to session strength.  I have a soft spot for lagers especially the full flavored continental variety, namely Weihenstephaner Original.  Although I'm not opposed to a Premium American Lager (BJCP Description) with my favorite...

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CEREAL MASH

The purpose of this post is to give anyone who is thinking about doing a cereal mash a good place to start. This is basically my blonde ale recipe with unmalted raw red rice from Thailand in place of the usual flaked/instant rice and unmalted white wheat in...

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BROWN PORTER

I've never brewed a Porter before so I figured I would start with the most basic of the sub-styles, Brown Porter. Brown Porter is characterized by the use of Brown Malt and in my opinion the lack of roasted barley. I've never used Brown Malt in a beer...

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ENGLISH SPECIAL/PREMIUM/BEST

This is maybe my third version of an English Special Bitter, each time I've tried a different recipe/yeast/malt supplier etc. For this one I wanted to start from scratch in terms of the grain bill so I kept it very simple. It's mostly pale malt with some medium...

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BLONDE ALE - VERSION 2

This is a slightly different version of my previous Blonde Ale. This verion uses all 2-row instead of a 50/50 mix of Pilsner & 2-Row, unmalted wheat instead of malted wheat, Crystal 10 instead of Crystal 20, Hallertau instead of Spalter and instant rice instead of flaked rice....

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SCOTTISH 60 SHILLING

This beer ended up winning Gold at the 15th Annual B.E.E.R. Brew-off! (http://beerhbc.org/)I've heard a lot of good things about this style of beer so I figured I would try and brew it. Scottish Ales (not to be confused with Scotch Ales) are all pretty similar, with the...

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ENGLISH DARK MILD

No one does session beers like the English. I'm a big fan of many English session beers but I've never had a commercial example of a Dark Mild and people rave about it so I decided to brew one and try it for myself. English Dark Milds are...

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BLONDE ALE

To kick it off I figured I would try a simple Blonde Ale as my first attempt. I was going for a nice easy drinking session beer. Nothing offensive but balanced & drinkable.I decided to split the base grains 50% 2-row & 50% German pils malt because I...

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This Blog

I love session beers and homebrewing so I figured I would chronicle my experiences trying to create low gravity and flavorful beers. Unfortunately there's an utter lack of good low alcohol commercial beers which will hopefully change one day.For me a session beer is anything below 4.5%. I...

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