BOTM
September 2024 Beer of the Month -- Nectaron Haze | American IPA
We LOVE haze here at KJ, and that’s no secret. After a long and lovely Summer with our Two Rivers blonde ale recipe from Royal City, it’s finally time for us to return to our hazy roots. Behold — September’s BOTM, Nectaron Haze!
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5 Days in May - Turbo Pale Ale Recipe
Go from grain to glass in just 5 days with this delicious pale ale recipe. Features loads of Idaho 7 hops and Voss Kveik yeast from Escarpment labs.
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The Student 2.0
This is the sequel to our most popular recipe: The Student. The philosophy behind the sequel is the same as the original. The thesis is to make a recipe that is a) delicious b) easy to make c) inexpensive d) did we say delicious!?
The Jabroni - European Lager Recipe
A great blend of high-quality malts and spicy hops. We fermented this one with the new NovaLager yeast which is far more lenient than your traditional lager yeast. It can ferment cleanly between 12-20°C, and does not require a diacetyl rest. Which means this beer can be fermented year-round.
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STUPID SEXY STOUT - Session Stout Recipe
It’s January, the great, delicious holidays are over and after all that boozy food filled holiday fun it is unlikely a lot of us would fit into Flanders sexy red ski suit. While this month’s stout won’t get you back to the gym it is designed to be enjoyable and easy to drink, but a little lower in calories and alcohol than most stouts.
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Packer's Westy - November 2022 Beer of the Month
This month’s recipe is one from a longtime KJ customer. We tried his West Coast IPA at a brewing club meeting in September and were blown away. We knew right away we had to brew it ourselves and share it with everyone else. It has a great balance of hop aroma and flavour, along with a light but crisp malt expression. It’s a throwback recipe to the original IPA style with lots of good clean bitterness punctuated with pine and citrus hop notes. The Cali ale yeast ferments it clean and well.
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Cheat Code Märzen 2.0 - October 2022 Beer of the Month
This is the sequel to our very popular Cheat Code Märzen from 2021. Like most sequels we tweaked a couple of things but tried to keep the essence of what made the original so good. Last year’s beer was very malty and leaned towards sweetness. This year we have dialed up the bittering hops to balance out the malty sweetness with a crisper bite. We found this brought a lot more balance to beer.
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Wet HOP Summer - August/September 2022 BOTM
It’s that time of year again, the hops that you have been trying to contain in your backyard are just about ready to be harvested. We’ve created a recipe that is an excellent template for using freshly harvested hops. A great balance of malty sweetness, that serves as a great backbone for your freshly picked hops to express themselves.
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Am I Right, Ladies? - Hazy Wheat IPA Recipe
This is the first beer that Dana has ever developed, and like last month's Jean Claude Van Darn Good Belgian Ale, the Am I Right, Ladies? began with a name and resulted in a delicious BOTM. This phrase is something she says a lot on stage while "performing" her "comedy," and while it's mostly said to ease the tension of a joke that may have landed poorly, this Hazy Wheat IPA with an ABV of 5.9% will likely do the same if you drink enough of it! As a nod to her budding (read: fruitless) career in comedy, we've used WB-06 Weizen (Get it? Wise Guy?) yeast for this recipe, and with Vic Secret hops at center stage, this brew bears a tropical and juicy punchline. Take the fruitiness one step further by adding 2oz of peach flavouring at the bottling and/or kegging stage. We're confident that this won't be a one-liner, am I right ladies?
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Thiol High Club - All Canadian Hazy IPA
A delicious hazy beer made from all Ontario ingredients* - how cool is that!? We've got Ontario grown malts, hops, and yeast all put together in a hoppy, citrusy IPA.
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The Laverne & Shirley
Devon’s idea for this month’s beer is to pay homage to the women of the brewing world who have fought hard to make their mark in a predominantly male industry. This crisp American lager features Loral and Saaz hops (L&S... wink wink) is light with malt-sweetness and is highly crushable.
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