Beer Style: pale ale, bitter, ordinary bitter, Boddington’s Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipe and the description of Boddington’s Bitter are derived (sometimes copied) from the book Brew Your Own Real Ale Ingredients: 6 lbs. (2720 g) English 2-row pale malt 1 oz. (28 g) black patent malt 3 ozs. (85 g) Cane (white table) Sugar 3/8 Cup (packed) soft …
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Best Pale Ale
Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’ve just tryed my newest batch of ale and it is my best yet! Ingredients: 9 lbs pale two row malt .5 lbs pils 2-row .5 lbs crystal 55L 1 oz Perle at 45 min remaining .5 oz Cascade at 15 min remaining 1 oz Hallertauer (10 min. steep) Wyeast American pale …
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Beer Style: pale ale, Bass Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Here’s one that’s not too bad…you can modify it to make it more authentic, I’m sure. Ingredients: 7 pounds American Two-Row (the “American” style, remember!) 1 pound Caravienne (substitute light crystal malt, etc.) 1 pound Brown Sugar 1 oz. EKG (5.0%) 60 minutes 1/2 oz. EKG (5.0%) 30 minutes 1/2 oz. …
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Beer Style: pale ale, Bass Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’m a hophead (as you may have guessed). Purists may object to brown sugar in beer, but a careful tasting of Bass reveals brown sugar or molasses in the finish—not as strong as in Newcastle, but present. British malt, in particular, can easily stand up to a bit of sugar, …
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Beer Style: pale ale, rice, light beer Recipe Type: all-grain Description: We originally formulated this recipe because the Shade Tree Brewery (a.k.a Paul’s driveway) was prone to producing deep, flavorful, chewy brews. Our friends “who don’t like beer” seemed to shy away from our keg and crack open a Coors Light instead. The solution – brew a rice beer for …
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Beer Style: pale ale, American pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I recently purchased Terry Foster’s style-series book on Pale Ale. I was quite disappointed that the American Pale Ale category was essentially ignored in this fine treatise on British Pales. Thank goodness for Norm Pyle’s most recent article in Ingredients: 9.0 lbs US 2-row pale malt (Briess) 1.0 lbs …
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Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Ingredients: 22 lbs Great Western 2 row 1 lb Dewolf-Cosyns Cara Munich 70 Lovibond 2 oz Perle 8.1% AA 60 minutes 2 oz Perle 8.1% AA 60 minutes 3 oz Perle 8.1% AA 30 minutes 1 oz Mt Hood 3.9% AA 10 minutes 1 oz Cascades 5% AA 5 minutes 1 oz …
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Beer Style: alt, german ale, pale ale, yeast Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Since Wyeast 1084 makes such good stouts and porters I wanted to compare it to my standard alt yeast (Wyeast 1338) using the same wort. The original recipe came from Zymurgy’s Winter 1994 article on Alt, with modifications from HBD input and gut feel. I’ve been trying to …
Read More »1990 Christmas Ale
Beer Style: pale ale, holiday beer, christmas ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Ingredients: 9.9 pounds, pale unhopped liquid extract 6.6 pounds, liquid wheat extract 3 pounds, honey 1 pound, flaked barley 1 pound, pale malt 1 pound, malted wheat 10 grams, orange peel 1 teaspoon, gypsum 1/2 teaspoon, salt 1 teaspoon, Irish moss 14 HBUs, Chinook hops (boil) 7 HBUs, …
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Beer Style: stout, dry stout, Irish stout Recipe Type: all-grain Description: There is probably no such thing as a perfect clone, but I’ll share with you (and anyone else watching) some of the things I have been able to learn in my similar attempts. None of this is authenticated by any factual source that I know of. I do not …
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