Challenges

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• Small beer, big aroma

  Gentle

  Brew a session IPA under 4.5% ABV that still smells like a proper IPA.

  • Below 4.5% ABV
  • Properly bitter: at least 30 IBU
  • Smells strongly of hops (aroma 6 of 10 or more)
  • Rated 72 or better overall
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• Soft Czech lager

  Involved

  A pale Czech lager: soft water, real bitterness, and no diacetyl.

  • Fermented with a lager strain
  • Between 4.2% and 5.6% ABV
  • 30–45 IBU
  • Pale, under 14 EBC
  • No butterscotch (diacetyl) flagged
  • Rated 78 or better overall
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• Rescue the sweet stout

  Involved

  This stout is undrinkably sweet. Bring it back into balance without losing the roast.

  • Not cloying: sweetness under 5.5 of 10
  • Still tastes roasty: roast 4 of 10 or more
  • Still a dark beer, 40 EBC or more
  • Hangs together: balance score 78 or better
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• Loud but gentle

  Gentle

  Get hop aroma to 7 or more while keeping bitterness under 35 IBU.

  • Smells strongly of hops (aroma 7 of 10 or more)
  • Under 35 IBU
  • Not over-hopped into grassiness
  • Rated 75 or better overall
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• Four ingredients

  Hard

  Water, one malt, one hop, one yeast. Make it a beer worth drinking.

  • Exactly one fermentable
  • Exactly one hop variety
  • Some bitterness to it: at least 18 IBU
  • Rated 80 or better overall
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• Dry saison, no heat

  Involved

  Finish at 1.006 or below, above 5.5% ABV, without any solvent heat.

  • Finishes bone dry: final gravity 1.006 or below
  • Above 5.5% ABV
  • No hot, solvent alcohol flagged
  • No noticeable burn: alcohol warmth 4 of 10 or less
  • Cleanly made: technical score 82 or better
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• Ten percent, still balanced

  Hard

  An imperial stout at 9.5% ABV or more that still holds together.

  • 9.5% ABV or more
  • Strongly roasty: roast 6 of 10 or more
  • Warm but not burning: alcohol warmth 7 of 10 or less
  • Hangs together: balance score 78 or better
  • Cleanly made: technical score 78 or better
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• Repair the brew

  Hard

  Every stage of this recipe has a problem. Find them all and make it good.

  • Nothing serious flagged
  • At least 4.5% ABV
  • Rated 78 or better overall
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• Nowhere to hide

  Hard

  A pale lager under 10 EBC with no findings worse than a caution.

  • Very pale: under 10 EBC
  • Fermented with a lager strain
  • Nothing worse than a caution
  • Near-faultless: technical score 90 or better
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• Noble restraint

  Involved

  A malt-forward beer using only European hops, with real flavour under 4% ABV.

  • Only German, Czech, English, Slovenian or French hops
  • Under 4% ABV
  • Tastes clearly of malt: 4.5 of 10 or more
  • Rated 75 or better overall
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