Josh Weikert

If you're looking to experiment with spiced ales, this recipe is a good one to start with.

• All Grain Recipe
• Beer Recipe
• Brown Ale

Foreign Extra Stout isn’t a complicated style. However, it is a distinct style, and missing the mark on any one of several flavor characteristics will unavoidably drag it out of its home in category 16D and into one of the other stout styles.

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• Stout
• Foreign Extra Stout

There are approaches that can help us find balance in our beers when we want it and make our imbalances work for us when they’re warranted and wanted.

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There are approaches that can help us find balance in our beers when we want it and make our imbalances work for us when they’re warranted and wanted.

• Brewing Techniques and Advice

This recipe will serve you well as a faithful Red IPA that avoids the pitfalls of the style while amplifying its virtues.

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• All Grain Recipe
• IPA

Big beers often garner a lot of attention, but don’t let that keep you from appreciating (or brewing) the smaller beers.

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• Making Beer
• Brewing Techniques and Advice

An English brown ale is simply darker than a bitter but not as dark as a porter. As a style, there’s a lot of room for interpretation. The key is a fundamental drinkability.

• Beer Recipe
• Brown Ale Recipe
• All Grain

Sometimes tough to find commercially, wheatwine is a beer made for homebrewing. It's a fun style to brew and it makes for an outstanding fall beer that holds up to a lot of aging.

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• Brewing Techniques
• Advice Make Your Best

This recipe from Josh Weikert, author of the Beer: Simple blog is for a bare-bones, but crisp and flavorful, German Pils.

• Beer Recipe
• Pilsner Recipe
• All Grain

A classic Flanders Red Ale is a riot of flavors, from rich fruity notes of black currant and plum and berries, to bright acidity and dark funk, and even a raw-grain-and-biscuit malt background. Read on and get brewing!

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• BREWING TECHNIQUES AND ADVICE
• MAKE YOUR BEST

Explore the approach that showcases the flavor of hops while preserving the distinctly “Belgian” character of Belgian beers, embodied in the Belgian IPA.

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• Brewing Techniques And Advice
• Making beer

With one base recipe, you can create many distinct saisons just by manipulating the hopping. Here we’ve used Liberty and Hallertau to create a saison that has a spicier and slightly more fruity hops flavor and an herbal/floral aroma.

• Beer Recipe
• Saison Recipe