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Lager Lessons: On Attempting to Clone Pilsner Urquell

by Ben K. May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 12 Min Reading

Pale lager is one of homebrewing’s toughest challenges, but with a few tweaks to my process I’ve gotten closer than ever before to replicating Europe’s best.

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How I Ended Up Making an Altbier with Deschutes Brewery

by Ben K. April 12, 2023April 12, 2023 8 Min Reading

When an opportunity to brew with one of America’s biggest breweries falls in your lap, you take it—even if you don’t particularly like the beer you’re brewing.

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Lager Lessons: On Attempting to Clone Pilsner Urquell

May 3, 2023May 3, 2023 12 Min Reading

Pale lager is one of homebrewing’s toughest challenges, but with a few tweaks to my process I’ve gotten closer than ever before to replicating Europe’s best.

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How I Ended Up Making an Altbier with Deschutes Brewery

April 12, 2023April 12, 2023 8 Min Reading

When an opportunity to brew with one of America’s biggest breweries falls in your lap, you take it—even if you don’t particularly like the beer you’re brewing.

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A Kölsch Komparison—Two Takes on a Classic Style

July 1, 2022July 1, 2022 11 Min Reading

Kölsch is an unassumingly beer-flavored beer that flies under the radar—even in Germany. But when it’s done well, it’s one of my favorite styles.

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Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 2, Mosaic Red Ale

February 14, 2022February 14, 2022 4 Min Reading

For the second beer at my wedding, we cooked up something with a little more depth and broad appeal than an IPA: a red ale bursting with berry-forward Mosaic.

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Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 1, Rice Lager

February 14, 2022February 9, 2023 5 Min Reading

The first beer at my wedding had to be light and crushable, and it had to go with the Vietnamese-inspired dinner menu. Yep, it could only be a rice lager.

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The Curious Case of the Two Two Hearted Ales

January 31, 2022 7 Min Reading

There are few craft beers as iconic as Bell’s Two Hearted Ale. That makes it as good a homebrew cloning challenge as any. Here’s how I fared.

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Permanent Midnight Tasting 2021: Still My Best

December 26, 2021December 26, 2021 4 Min Reading

Three years from brewing, this decadent coconut-vanilla barrel-aged stout remains my Everest.

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Another lager lesson: Schwarzbier

December 24, 2021January 24, 2022 6 Min Reading

My lager education continues with the easy-to-describe, hard-to-perfect schwarzbier. It’s just a “black beer!” How hard could it really be?

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Seasonally Appropriate Drinking: Fresh Hop Amber Ale

November 15, 2021November 16, 2021 7 Min Reading

I don’t love amber ales. But I do love fresh hop beers. Could a fresh hop amber ale with homegrown Cashmere help me love this boring-ass style?

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Seasonally Appropriate Drinking: Festbier

October 28, 2021October 29, 2021 6 Min Reading

When the leaves start to turn and there’s a nip in the air, there’s only one beer that’s seasonally appropriate: German festbier. Here’s my take on a classic.

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  • How I Ended Up Making an Altbier with Deschutes Brewery
  • A Kölsch Komparison—Two Takes on a Classic Style
  • Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 2, Mosaic Red Ale
  • Cheers to Wedding Beers: Part 1, Rice Lager

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