All Grain Recipes

Description: In this recipe, wheat made 27% of total grist. I would note that this beer was fermented warm (77F). The beer was very tart and had hints of cloves in the nose. I have also made an *American Wheat* (about year and a half ago) with wheat making 43% of the grist, fermented with Nottingham dry ale yeast at …

Description: Pilsner- Urquel!!! Just bottled after a months lagering. And twice dry-hopped with….what else…Saaaaaaaaaaaaz it all! Yuuuuuum. It is light, clean, fairly malty, and slightly sweet, but crisp. And this baby just screams saaaaaaz. But without being bitter. Too bad it’s a little late for the bay area brewoff. I think it would fair well. (pat on back….smack lips once …

Description: This is a malty, golden pilsner in the Czech style Ingredients: 6.5 lbs weyerman Bohemian pilsner malt 1 lb dextrin malt (Briess or Weyerman are excellant) 2 lbs weyerman vienna malt Wyeast 2000 Budvar, activated (or use 2 pouches) very soft water-hardness 25-30 3.5 oz 4%aa Czech-grown Saaz hops(adjust for differance in aa%) 1.5 cup light dme for priming …

Ingredients: 4 ounces, Saaz hops (about 3% alpha) Wyeast Bohemian lager #2124 or Munich lager #2308 Procedure: Each recipe assumes 75% extract efficiency. Use the best German or Belgian pilsner malt you can find, rather than U.S. 2-row or U.S. 6-row malt. Likewise, use German or Belgian Munich malt if you can find it. In the recipes, the crystal malt …

Description: For anyone wishing to reproduce “American Premium-style” pilsner beer — here is my all-grain offering for 5 gallons. This makes a remarkable beer with an incredible Cascade nose and an edge-of-the-tongue bitterness perception — This is one to convince the ‘non-homebrewing’ friend that you really know what you are doing! I hope that some ambitious person with a spare …

Ingredients: 8 pounds, Klages pale malt 4 pounds, Munich malt (10L) 1 pound, crystal malt (40L) 1 pound, malted wheat 1 pound, wheat flakes (unmalted) 1 pound, dark brown sugar 2 ounces, chocolate malt (uncracked) 2 ounces, Cascade hops (I didn’t have time to age them 3 OG: 1.072 FG: 1.014 Primary Ferment: 2 months Procedure: Mash temp 158 degrees, …

Description: With spring & summer just around the corner (for the northern hemisphere anyway), this is a great refreshing beer to drink lots of on a warm day, being moderate in alcohol. The name comes from the fact that several fireflies (lightening bugs – Lampyridae family) magically appeared in the mash. This one won first place in the 2nd Annual …

Description: Here’s Corrales Blanco – a basic all-grain Wit. Effervescent, tart, and just plain good. If you come up with an interesting spice addition for this, let me know. Ingredients: 5 lb Belgian Pils malt 4 lb red winter wheat berries 1 lb steel cut oats 1 oz coriander (steep) 1 oz Saaz hops (60 min) 0.5 oz Hallertauer Hersbrucker …

Ingredients: 15 pounds, pale unhopped extract 3/4 pound, brown sugar 1 pound, crystal malt 1 pound, flaked barley 1 pound, pale malt 1/2 pound, wheat malt 1/4 teaspoon, gypsum 1/4 teaspoon, salt 1 teaspoon, Irish moss 7 HBUs, Northern Brewer hops (boil) 14 HBUs, Chinook hops (boil) 1 ounce, Saaz hops (finish) 1/2 ounce, Tettnanger hops (finish) Chimay yeast Procedure: …

Description: I’ve been trying to emulate Celis Grand Cru for a few batches so far and came reasonably close in the last experiment. The following recipe is the result of suggestions and various tidbits of info from other homebrewers interesting in emulating this recipe. The batch that I got differs from the real thing in at least two ways that …