This West Coast IPA uses the classic Citra / Simcoe hop combination along with my normal malt bill of ~75% Pilsner and ~25% Pale Malt.

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For Winter time, I generally brew a darker and slightly stronger beer. This year I wanted to switch it up and brew a stronger lager, since I normally do stouts. After researching some styles I settled on one that I wasn’t familiar with, the Dunkles Bock.

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In this recipe I utilizted 2 newer hop varieties (HBC 586 and McKenzie) while keeping my normal malt bill for West Coast IPAs.

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Every summer I brew up a new batch of one of my favorite styles of lagers, the New Zealand Pilsner. This is my fourth version that uses exclusively 100% Nelson Sauvin hops.

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This recipe uses my house IPA grain bill and was hopped exclusively with HBC-586 in the boil, whirlpool and dry hop additions.

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This recipe uses a hybrid lager/ale yeast (Imperial G03 Dieter) that was inspired by a brulosophy reciepe. It was fermented in th high 50’s / low 60’s.

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I based this recipe off of Grains of Wrath’s Dystopia IPA. From the description on their website:

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Every summer I brew up a new batch of one of my favorite styles of lagers, the New Zealand Pilsner. This is my third version that varies the New Zeland hops and for the first time the malt bill.

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In a previous post I compared the first iteration of my homebrewed version to the commercial Grains of Wrath Built for Speed. I had outlined a few changes to try for the 2nd iteration which I brewed and tapped recently. I’ve outlined my notes in this post.

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I wanted to make a session-strength stout for the winter. Being a coffee fan I decided to introduce coffee in 2 ways. First I added 3 ounces of whole beans directly to the fermenter after fermentation for 4 days. Then I cold-brewed coffee for 24 hours and added it to the keg before racking the beer on top.

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