One of my best friends favorite beer style is black IPA. When he and his girlfriend decided to get married, I know what to do. I already started to research the style and brewed a few test batches exactly for this situation, but now I had to switch gears and go all in. After ten test batches and a good amount of research behind me, I came up with a recipe that was satisfying. I wanted this beer to be dry, hop forward with little to no chocolate and coffee flavor, but with jet black color.
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According to the BJCP, the Trappist Single is:
“A pale, bitter, highly attenuated and well carbonated Trappist ale, showing a fruity-spicy Trappist yeast character, a spicy-floral hop profile, and a soft, supportive grainy-sweet malt palate.”
As it’s so common on my blog, I never actually brewed a Trappist single before, but I had my fair share of belgian beers. Based on my experiences with belgian beers and the description provided by the BJCP, I created a recipe and started brewing a few days later.
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In collaboration with Főzőház, I wrote an article about Christmas beers (it’s only available in Hungarian). At the end of the article there was co-designed recipe. In this piece, I will document the brewing of that recipe and see how good it fits the style.
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As October was approaching fast (at least when I brewed this beer), I decided to make a little Oktoberfest at home. The concept was to brew four German style beers or four beers that’s somewhat related to Germany. Today's beer is the first one on the list and as such I went with the most iconic beer of the festival, the festbier. As I never brewed this style and wanted at least one not experimental recipe, I went with the Meanbrews Festbier recipe. However, as usual I went with a kveik strain, due to the lack of temperature control.
Read MoreBad Karma Schwarzbier | Brewday
The first time I tried a schwarzbier was a few years ago at a beer festival. There were booths where they served Köstritzer. I really liked the beer, but in Hungary they are the only widely available brand of schwarzbier so I never really had the chance to experience other brands. When I started homebrewing, I bought the Mashmaker from Michael Dawson, in this book resides today's recipe. This is my first time brewing this style of beer, so I was very excited to get my hands dirty.
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