This old ale is brewed with molasses, a robust malt bill, then oak-aged. The result is a rich malty delight that’s deceptively smooth and drinkable. Head Brewer Jeremy Kosmicki calls it a “nighttime sipper” and a respite from the hops-forward styles.
This blonde ale is more flavorful than your average “lawnmower” beer, so save it for after you mow. Once you dial in the recipe, this beer will get your non-beer-drinking friends started down the path to craft-beer obsession! And you’ll enjoy it, too.
A properly brewed weizenbock will have you experiencing intense malt and yeast flavors with enough alcohol to warm the body and soul.
Light American lager is the hardest “nothing of a beer” you will ever make. Here is a simplified version.
From Bearded Iris Brewing (Nashville, Tennessee), here’s a Pilsner-based IPA that uses Columbus hops extract, Mosaic and Simcoe Cryo, and Galaxy, Mosaic, and Motueka hops.
From Seventh Son Brewing Co. (Columbus, Ohio), here’s a homebrew-scaled recipe for a cocoa- and vanilla-infused imperial stout with a hefty dose of salt.
Belgian beers have a reputation for being somewhat hops-negligent. However, that reputation is absolutely unjustified. Please meet a beer that was once described to the author as the “King of the Belgian and French styles,” the Bière de Garde.
The Vienna lager lands in a place where it’s toastier than pale German lagers but nowhere near the caramel and melanoidin-heavy richness of “modern” Oktoberfest. The best examples of Vienna lager are like drinking a liquid version of dry toast.
Here’s a homebrew-scaled version of the hoppy Pilsner that Resident Culture Brewing Company brewed in collaboration with Casita Cerveceria.
Triple Crossing Beer’s flagship DIPA is overwhelmingly dry hopped with Mosaic and Simcoe. It’s soft, smooth, and hugely hops-forward with notes of tropical fruit, pineapple, passion fruit, and mango balanced with hints of resin and pine.