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Accidental DUNK - Red Rye Ale Recipe
This is a tale of two men. One who has been trying to make the perfect Dunkelweizen, and another who is only interested in extinct beer styles. For the last 18 months or so Jeremy has been attempting to make a Dunkelweizen that is “Beer of the Month” worthy.
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Kamil's Kölsch 2: The Shuffle
In 2017 we released the original Kamil’s Kölsch. It was a Kamil approved Kölsch that he enjoyed very very much, however we think he would like the sequel even more. It has his favourite Czech hop: Saaz, it also sports the premium German Bohemian Pilsner malt, and its fermented just a bit drier than the original to make it nice and crisp. We miss him like hell, and hope he’s enjoying one of these upstairs right now while dropping one of his classic jokes like “The Elephant”…
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The French Resolution
New year, new you. Shake off the turkey, stuffing, and Baltic porters with a light, low carb beer. The French Resolution is a crisp, hop forward beer with some of the classic farmhouse traits you see from Saisons, but with modern citrus forward hops. Not bitter, but aromatic and flavourful hop additions – and only 130 calories per 330ml bottle!
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Cocoa's for Cobblers - Hot Chocolate Stout Recipe
This month we’re making a spiritual successor to one of our originals: Coffee’s for Closers. Instead of coffee, this is all about the CHOCOLATE. We want a rich, chocolatey stout with a tiny bit of heat. The beauty of this recipe is that at 5.2% it’s still really sessionable. This one took a few tries, but we’re very happy with the balance we found. To get the full Cocoa’s for Cobblers experience we highly recommend adding all the optional extras: The Cocoa Powder, The Habanero Extract, and the Lactose. The cocoa powder adds even more chocolatey goodness to the beer. The Habanero adds a tiny bit of heat that complements the richness of the beer, and the lactose smooths it all out and gives it a great mouth feel.
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West Coast Best Coast
West Coast Best Coast is our return to the roots of IPAs. This one is big, chock full of both bitter hop and flavouring hop additions. It has a strong malt backbone that balances out the strong hoppy flavour. Clocking in at 6.5-6.8% ABV and with 60 IBUs – it’s a big beer. So put down that juice bomb and come back to the OG IPA Style.
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Lazy Pumpkin Ale or Harvest Ale
Well, we went and finally did it. We did the pumpkin thing. Our goal was to make a pumpkin flavoured beer that is enjoyable, approachable, and repeatable all year round. The thing with making beers with fruit, or other exotic flavours is that you must be very careful in how you add those flavours. Fruit additions can cause extra unexpected fermentations, have drastic effects on clarity, or can inadvertently add a bunch of acidity that throws your mash pH all over the place.
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Cheat Code Märzen
We’ve been working on this one for a while. The idea was to create an authentic Oktoberfest style Märzen, but in an accessible fashion. Traditional Märzen beers are fermented like a lager at a consistent 10°C, and then aged (lagered) at 0°C for months before being consumed. This process requires equipment, storage space, and patience (:p) that not all of our fellow homebrewers possess. The goal was to make an authentic tasting Märzen recipe that can be brewed at room temperature and be enjoyed in a shorter time. And, we ah, nailed it – this one is a winner.
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Summer of SMaSH
A couple of fun new ingredients are rolling into the store, and we thought it would be a good time to make some SMaSH’es. For those unfamiliar, a SMaSH beer refers to a Single Malt and Single Hop. Basically, it’s a way to focus in on flavours of a specific set of ingredients. Most beers are made of multiple grains and hops leading to a delicious combination, but in this case, we want to see what our new malts and hops taste like.
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HAZE | Citra Pale Ale Recipe
We LOVE hazy IPAs here at KJ, and we’re not alone. More and more breweries are making super juicy, hop forward beers. Hell, we have 3-4 recipes that are all like that. One thing all of these delicious hazy beers have in common is their high ABV. They tend to range from 6.5-8.5%, but sometimes you simply don’t want a beer with that much booze in it. Enter HAZE, designed and brewed by our very own Jeremy Morris. HAZE has the same super juicy, hop forward notes of NEIPAs but in a sessionable package. Registering in at 5.3%, it is just that bit lighter from its bigger hazy brothers.
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Honey Juice #9 | NEIPA Recipe
This is our “house” New England IPA. The grain bill is set in stone and we tend to just tweak the hops and yeast based on availability of ingredients. The finished beer always ends up being hazy without being too opaque, and it bursts with citrus and tropical fruit hop flavours. Finally, the addition of the honey malt gives it a delightful, sweet finish. We’ve been handing this recipe out to people all year looking for a new NEIPA recipe, but we figured it was time to make it legit and turn it into an official Beer of the Month.
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Crushable Cream Ale
Adrian tapped this keg on a Sunday afternoon, poured a pint, took a sip and proudly declared that this was an all-day beer. This Cream Ale is easy drinking enough for any Bud Light enthusiast to enjoy, and with enough nuance for even most cynical craft beer fan to like. It’s a patio beer on a hot summer’s day, and yet, it’s classy enough for a business meeting.
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