Annie Johnson

Inspired by Rogue Shakespeare Oatmeal Stout, the base here is English-style yet robust, with a taste of the Pacific Northwest. Use fresh oyster shells, when in season, with an eye toward adjusting the type and quantity of shells in future batches.

• Beer Recipe
• Stout

While not for vegetarians, oyster stout has the power to raise eyebrows with its sheer oddity and unlikely compatibility of flavors. The stout base is ideal for brewers with any level of experience—but are you ready to play the shell game?

• Stout
• Dry Stout
• Irish Stout

Old-school malt layers, New World hop flavors, and that beautiful red-amber color... Love live the red IPA.

• Beer Recipe
• IPA
• Red IPA

In this throwback IPA style that recalls the beauty of malt—both visually and in the flavor—you can go with a complex, layered all-grain grist. Or, you can get there quicker (and just as beautifully red) with an intentional approach to extract brewing.

• Red IPA
• Extract Brewing
• Red Ale

Here’s an elegant homebrew recipe for a super-lean and dry rice lager, ideal for warm summer nights or enjoying with virtually any meal.

• Beer Recipe
• Lager
• Light Lager

You don’t need an industrial Japanese brewery—nor even an all-grain homebrew system—to make a clean, light-bodied, refreshing rice lager ideal for sushi and summertime.

• No Rests for the Wicked
• Extract Brewing
• Rice Lager

For those who like it dark, strong, and contemplative, here’s a partial-mash extract recipe for a Trappist-inspired ale that can be cellared for many months, with a drinkability belies its strength and complexity.

• Beer Recipe
• Strong Ale
• Belgian-Style Dark Strong Ale

Belgium’s dark, strong ales are among the most complex and impressive beers in the canon—yet extract brewers can tackle them as well as anyone, as long as we pay attention to a few key points.

• Belgian Dark Strong Ale
• Extract Brewing
• Strong Ale

So, you put the lime in the coconut—or, better yet, add them both to secondary. Then you drink it all up.

• Beer Recipe
• Kölsch

Extract brewing provides a more-than-capable canvas for getting creative with the unusual fruits that arrive this time of year. Annie Johnson breaks it down.

• Extract
• Partial-Mash
• Fruit

Here is Annie Johnson’s recipe for a rich, complex, adjunct-free imperial stout that mellows and improves with some time in the cellar.

• Beer Recipe
• Imperial Stout
• Stout

You don’t need a truckload of grain and a giant mash tun to brew a big, rich imperial stout perfect for laying down for months—this one is right in the extract brewer’s wheelhouse.

• Imperial Stout
• Extract Brewing