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Beware the Ides of Märzen
Or don’t beware, that’s cool too. Amber lager is delicious, whether you call it Oktoberfest or Märzen . Before it became a by-the-liter liquid party fuel this Bavarian beer was called Märzen – the...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Bock
Bock is the king of rich and malty German beers. A difficult but rewarding style for homebrewers, as the smooth, dense malt layers can be found nowhere else. Lagering is necessary for smoothness, as is...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Sour Beers
Sour beers are one of the most unusual beer styles, but are naturally intriguing for the homebrewer. They range from a gentle sour tinge that helps provide complexity to ragingly mouth-puckering...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Amber and Dark Lagers
Amber and dark lagers combine the clean, bright purity of a pale lager like Pilsner with the dense, rich maltiness found in many German beers. Traditional methods would include a decoction mash and a...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Rye Beer
Most beer styles use just barley for their grain bill, but other grains like oats, wheat, and rye have a long history in brewing. Rye is the grain of hardier Northern climates, where other grains are...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Wheat Beer
Hefeweizen - This ale hails from the land of lagers, but it’s packed with surprising flavors you’ll never find elsewhere. Cloudy, tart, soft, full-bodied, fruity; a good hefeweizen has a lot going on....
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Hybrid Beers
Born out of necessity, tradition, or creativity, Hybrid Beers are half lagers, half ales. Sometimes half ales, half lagers. Either way, they are a unique category that straddles the line separating...
View ArticleBeer Style Guide – Pale Lager
Despite what the limited range of macrobrewed American lagers would suggest, pale lagers are varied, challenging, and very enjoyable beers. Many brewing historians point to the advent of glassware as...
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Notes on a Brewday: Weyermann® Oak-Smoked Pale Wheat Malt
My observation after 18 years of brewing and judging beer is that folks either hate smoked beers or love smoked beers, and even those that love them often can’t agree on what’s a tolerable amount or...
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Perspective on Brewing Beliner Weisse Style Beer
Presentation by Jess Caudill of Wyeast Laboratories during National Homebrewers Conference 2012. If you are interested at all in this beer style, check this out! Thanks to Wyeast and the American...
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