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Amber Ales & Lagers Family
Amber in color, moderate in strength, with a malty caramel flavor. Amber Ales and Lagers include Irish red, Scottish schilling, Märzen, Vienna lager, among other styles.
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Brew a Scottish ale with an All-Grain, Single-Infusion Mash
How to mash grains, recirculate the wort and sparge.
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Recipe
“Veruyu” California Red Ale
This is a finely balanced, reddish brew with a hint of California-style aromatics.
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Recipe
New Belgium Brewing Co.’s Fat Tire Clone
An extremely popular beer, featuring “toasty, biscuit-like malt flavors coasting in equilibrium with hoppy freshness.”
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Recipe
Sudwerks’ Hubsch Marzen clone
According to Sudwerk’s website, “Choice hops and five different specialty malts are combined to produce this rich, amber and copper-toned la
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Recipe
Mendocino Brewing Co.’s Red Tail Ale clone
One of the classic and original American Amber Ales.
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Scottish Ale
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Recipe
Choctoberfest
I vant to drink your beer…
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Recipe
Milk Chocolate Marzen
Chocolate-shake Marzen? Why not? Lactose sugar and a healthy dose of cocoa powder and fat free chocolate syrup provide plenty of milk choco
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Recipe
Black Forest Lager (chocolate-cherry lager)
Chocolate and cherry are one of the great pairings in culinary history…so why not make a beer to pair them up? Author Scott Russell though
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Recipe
Maple Marzen
A märzen beer is the perfect base to highlight the earthy qualities of maple sap and syrup. Alternatively, you could try fermenting with a
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Märzen and Oktoberfest
A recipe and a how-to brewing guide to Marzen, the beer that’s so special Germans brew it in March and don’t serve it until fall.
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Recipe
Cafe Vienna Lager (coffee cinnamon lager)
This recipe is for a dark lager with coffee and spices.