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Dark Lager Family
Dark Lager recipes usually call for roasted malts, which gives this beer style its dark brown or black color. Recipes range from German styles, like schwarzbier and dunkel, to Czech dark lager.
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Great Basin Brewing Co.’s Smoke Creek Rauchbier clone
A dark rauchbier brewed by Great Basin Brewing out of Sparks, Nevada which won gold medal at the 2006 GABF. If you don’t want to smoke your
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Flossmoor Station Brewery Black Wolf Schwarzbier clone
This German-style schwarzbier is a lovely dark brown color and features notes of toasted malt and coffee. A past GABF award winner.
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Lakefront Brewery: Eastside Dark clone
This Bavarian dark lager is a blend of three specialty grains, creating a rich, smooth, dark beer that anyone can enjoy.
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Old School Dunkel
Jamil Zainasheff provides readers with a classic recipe for German dunkel. Sometimes less is more in recipe development.
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Schwarzviertler — A Shadowy Dunkel From A “Dark Block”
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Dark Lagers: The New Possibility
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Munich Dunkel
In Munich they brew dunkel, which simply means “dark” in German. This recipe is for a dark, clean, malty lager that goes great with oomp
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Brauerei Ayinger Altbairisch Dunkel Clone
The Ayinger brewery was established in 1878 and has been named one of the “Top Ten Breweries in the World” for four consecutive years at
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Löwenbräu AG Premium Dark clone
A Munich Dunkel produced by the Munich-based Löwenbräu brewery. The brewery claims to have been founded back in 1383, although proof of th
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Dave Helt’s Schwarzbier
Winner of the Best of Show, Drunk Monk Challenge (735 entries). Despite fermented with an ale strain of yeast, a long lagering step helps ad
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Dixie Blackened Voodoo Lager clone
Dark lager? Must be voodoo….Try this clone from Louisiana based Dixie Brewing Co.