Recipe: Vine Street Black Is Beautiful Fonio Ale

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Missouri’s first Black-owned brewery, Kansas City’s Vine Street, released this light, hoppy, fonio-focused riff on the Black Is Beautiful open-source collab in 2025.

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The recipe for this crisp, easy-drinking golden ale—shared by Vine Street cofounder and head brewery Elliott Ivory—combines the West African grain’s tropical flavor with a hit of Citra for notes of lemon-lime and white wine.

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Batch size: 5 gallons (19 liters)
Brewhouse efficiency: 72%
OG: 1.046 (11.4°P)
FG: 1.010 (2.6°P)
IBUs: 22
ABV: 4.7%

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