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Belgian Beer: You’re Probably Doing It Wrong For the moment, let’s set aside the question of why an American would feel the need to brew a “Belgian-style” beer. Maybe it is homage, maybe inspiration, or maybe it is trading on a name with proven selling power. Maybe it is all of the above. Here is the greater problem: Many of you are not doing it very well. Joe Stange offers 5 tips for (correctly) making Belgian-style beer.
8 Beers (That Aren’t Guinness) to Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day 2015 St. Patrick's Day has passed, but it's never a bad time to pick up these craft alternatives to Irish classics.
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6 Tools to Unstick Your Fermentation A stuck fermentation falls far short of reaching the expected final gravity, and, as with many things brewing, the term is relative. A 1.050 pale ale that hits 1.012 instead of 1.010 probably suffers more from poor instrument calibration and repeatability issues than it does from stuck yeast. A 1.100 barleywine that stops at 1.045, though, still has a way to go. Dave Carpenter discusses 6 ways to unstick a stalled fermentation.
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Funkwerks Tropic King Recipe Funkwerks, Inc., a small, saison-focused brewery in Fort Collins, Colorado, was named Small Brewery of the Year at the 2012 GABF where its signature Saison took gold after winning silver the year before. Here's their recipe for Tropic King imperial saison scaled for homebrewing.