Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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With
Christmas just around the corner, many breweries bring out their
seasonal beer. One of the tastiest that I have consumed is Troeg’s Mad
Elf. With an alcohol content around 11% it is not a beer that you pound
down, but is more of a sipping beer. I came up with a recipe that I
think would make a Mad [...]

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According to the BJCP a Cream ale or also referred to as a “creamer,” is related to American lagers. They are generally brewed to be light and refreshing with a straw to pale golden color. Hop and malt flavor is usually subdued but some breweries give them a more assertive character. Two examples [...]

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Wisdom Cream Ale Clone
 (5 gallons, extract) OG = 1.053 FG = 1.014 IBUs = 14 -16 ABV = 5.1% 
Ingredients :
6.0 lbs. Coopers Light dry malt extract4.0 AAU Tettnanger hops (bittering)(0.9 oz. of 4.5% alpha acid)7.4 AAU Saaz hops (aroma)(2.1 oz. of 3.5% alpha acid)1 tsp Irish mossWhite Labs WLP002 (English Ale) yeast or Wyeast 1968 (Special London) [...]

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A name trademarked by the Anchor Steam Beer brewery of San Francisco. This brewery’s principal product is made by a distinctive method of bottom-fermentation at high temperatures and in unusually wide, shallow vessels. This technique, producing a beer with elements of both lager and ale in its character (though also distinctive in its [...]