Making Homemade Wine and Beer

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Each month we try and find a selection of beer reviews from around the web. The idea being that you can try a few different types before making your own batch. This month we will be featuring Pumpkin and Octoberfest beers.
Pumpkin Ales and Beers:
Blue Moon - Harvest Moon reviewed by the Beer [...]

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This recipe is from Beertools.com and was submitted by Azorean-Brewer.
Ingredients
6 lbs. German 2-row Pils
2 lbs. Munich Malt
2 lbs. German Vienna
1/4 lbs. Crystal Malt 120°L
1/2 lbs. Belgian Cara-Pils
.75 lbs. American Victory
1 oz. Hallertau (Pellets, 3.4 %AA) boiled 60 min.
1 oz. Styrian Goldings (Pellets, 4.8 %AA) boiled 15 min.
1 oz. Spalt Spalter (Pellets, 4.75 %AA) boiled 1 min.
Yeast : WYeast 2206 Bavarian Lager
Procedure
This produces an outstanding [...]

Alt is German for “old”, and these beers are of a style older than the lagered beers, a remnant of the time before lager was invented. Altbier is top fermented then cold lagered for a few weeks. Altbiers are copper-bronze in colour and mostly brewed around Dusseldorf. Altbier is the closest Germany gets to the [...]

Original Gravity: 1.048 IBU: 40
Please read these instructions completely before beginning your brew.
Ingredients:
6.6# (2 cans) Amber Liquid Malt Extract (LME)0.3# (5 oz.) Light Dry Malt Extract (DME)2# Crushed German Vienna Malt 3L 2# Crushed German [...]