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• Smoke on the Lager (Rauchbier)
• I am basically looking for any advice regarding potential cause of my consistent diacetyl issue...
• Please explain to me why I need to know how to homebrew beer...
• Darn bitter (ESB)

  • At 35 IBUs this brew is darn bitter.

• Really Bitter (Best Bitter)

  • Really quite bitter...

• Plain Bitter (Ordinary Bitter)
• White River Porter
• Pilgrim’s Pumpkin Pie Ale

  • An American-style Pale Amber Ale with pumpkins.

• English Hard Cider

  • This cider is strong, still, and balanced, approximately 7 percent alcohol by volume.

• New England Hard Cider

  • This cider is drier, slightly stronger, bubbly but not champagne-like, approximately 4.5 percent alcohol by volume.

• Cidre Normande

  • This cider is light, sweet, fruity, and effervescent, approximately 3.5 percent alcohol by volume.

• Alt & In the Way
• Poor Man's Porter

  • The honey adds a touch of dryness.

• Mellow Brown Ale

  • This is the kind of session beer you’ll always want to have in your refrigerator. A hodgepodge of specialty grains makes this a great clean-out-your-brewing-drawer beer.  It is a kind of Brown Ale by default.

• Belgian Golden

  • A basic Belgian Ale.
    

• Dixie Cup Boardwalk Belgian Quadrupel

  • This was the beer that was given to each of the attendees of this year’s Houston Foam Ranger’s Dixie Cup Homebrew Competition. The theme was Fredopoly, based on the board game Monopoly and in honor of our annual speaker and homebrew pioneer, Fred Eckhardt.

• Mike’s “Devilish” Belgian Strong Golden

  • "You little devil, you!"
    

• Salmon Creek Brewing Brother Larry’s Belgian clone

  • This is a Belgian Dubbel, indicating a higher alcohol content.

• Hannah’s Cherry Stout
• Rhodan’s Back (Amber Acid Ale)

  • Amber Acid Ale denotes a beer that ferments with many more microorganisms than traditional brewers yeast.  It is considered a cousin of the Lambic.
    

• DewBrew Flanders Red

  • Inspired by Rodenbach Grand Cru, New Belgium La Folie and Love, plus Pizza Port Le Woody. Formulated with help from professional brewers in America and Belgium that have experience with this style, this is another acid ale.
    

• Flemish Red Ale

  • Another acid ale.
    

• West Flanders Red Ale

  • Another version of an acid ale.
    

• American Twentieth-Century Pale Ale

  • A basic American-style Pale Ale recipe.
    

• British Nineteenth-Century Best Bitter
• Clermont Scottish Ale

  • "This Scottish beer is named after the Clermont Sportsmen Club, of which I am a member. The club is located in the mountains of Clermont, Pennsylvania."
    

    - Robert R. Heinlein

• Rocky Mountain Red Metheglin

  • We found that hummingbirds loved Celestial Seasonings’ Red Zinger tea. Once we tasted this metheglin, we knew why! 

• Fall Spice Metheglin

  • Metheglin... an herbed or spiced mead.
    

• Royal Metheglin
• Lindeman's Lambic clone

  • Lindemans was founded in 1869 and has a solid reputation as a blender and brewer of traditional, authentic lambics. The brewery produces four fruit lambics: kriek (cherry), cassis (black current), peche (peach) and framboise (raspberry). This same basic recipe also can be used to emulate other fruit lambics, from fraise (strawberry) to druiven (muscat grape).

    -- Brouwerij Lindemans, Vlezenbeek
    

• Hoegaardenwit

  • Brouwerij De Kluis, Hoegaarden
    This is the standard by which all witbiers are measured. Hoegaarden Wit is cloudy and very pale golden in color, with a restrained white head and aromas of coriander and wheat that are impossible to ignore.

• Corsendonk Monk's Brown Ale clone

  • Corsendonk is an Abbey beer, not a Trappist beer. This designation means the beer is brewed not at an abbey, but under license from — or at least in the style of — a Trappist monastery. In the case of Corsendonk, the name is taken from an Augustine priory that produced beer from the 1600s until the 1780s. Whether the Augustine brothers brewed anything remotely resembling modern Corsendonk is debatable, but they have licensed their name to the beer since 1982.

    - Brouwerij Bios,

• Westmalle Abbey Tripel clone

  • The quintessential Trappist tripel, Westmalle is very pale, very strong and wonderfully smooth. One of the brewhouse techniques that makes the Westmalle beers unique is the use of direct gas flames on the copper kettles. This creates hot spots that may caramelize the wort slightly, giving a faint burnt-sugar taste to the beers. The beers are also brewed with very hard water, which certainly contributes to the character of the tripel.

• Duvel Belgian Ale clone

  • Brouwerij Moortgat, Breendonk        
    

    “Devil” is the archetypal Belgian Strong Golden ale. In fact, most of Duvel’s imitators make some reference to the devil in their name or label. Strong, pale amber in color, Duvel’s flavor is a unique balance of alcohol, hops and sweet malt.

• De Koninck clone

  • A smooth, easy-drinking amber-colored Belgian Ale.
    

• Classic Belgian Tripel

  • A light, pale, highly alcoholic Belgian Ale.
    

• Hacker Pschorr Weisse Dark
• Maryland Kölsch
• Red Rock Ale

  • This American-style Amber Red Ale beer kit was designed back when the “red” beer fad was in high gear. It’s a simple, solid recipe.  
    

    Pete Norton, Seattle, Washington (Liberty Malt Supply)

• Raspberry Porter
• Honey Basil Ale

  • This beer uses the pasteurization method of adding honey, as well as fresh basil leaves for extra bitterness.

• Beer Cabinet Bee Brew

  • A good clean pilsner we brewed last winter from leftover ingredients.

• Passagassawakeag Porter

  •  Mighty malty with a nice hop nose, slight bitterness and a strong alcohol bite, this is one powerful sipping beer.

• Mostly Extract Rauchbier
• Easy Rauchbier

  • Like smoke on the water...
    

• Bamberg Rauchbier

  • An ancient beer style that’s still smokin’.

• From Cans to Craft: Last Call

  • A lifelong Genny-lover became a craft brew convert and a commercial brewer after just one night of drinking homebrew. Do you blame him?

• Life Skills, Diacetyl: Mr Wizard

  • Can homebrewing really be one of the most important life skills? The Wiz thinks so. Plus: a question about diacetyl

• Going Pro Roundtable

  • Interested in going pro at an existing craft brewery? Seven professional brewers talk about what it takes to make the transition from homebrewer to pro brewer.

• Smoked Beer

  •  Are you a fan of barbecue and beer? How about barbecued flavor in your beer? Find out how to brew a smoked beer and how to smoke your own malt.