Description: Bold and strong. Might use galena hops instead of chinook hops in the boil. After 2 months still very hoppy. Ingredients: 1 lb crystal malt 7lbs lite dme 2lbs amber dme 4oz chinook hops 2 oz cascade hops 2 packs nottingham dry yeast OG: 1.080 FG: 1.021 Primary Ferment: 7dys Secondary Ferment: 10days Procedure: Steep crystal malt 30minutes in …
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Cricket Ale IPA
Description: My first IPA turned out really good. A bit of sweet on the front of the tongue with a full hoppy ‘bite’ at the back. If this beer would have turned out a bit more clear, I would have made labels and entered it in the county fair. Ingredients: 1 pounds, Brewcraft liquid Amber malt extract, unhopped 4 pounds, …
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Description: I tried to make a relatively inexpensive IPA. While you must spend money on hops, save some by using corn sugar. Had to go with DME to get a lighter color. Ingredients: 3 # extra pale DME 3 # pale LME 2 # corn sugar 2 oz simcoe 10 min. 2 oz sterling 10min. 1 oz simcoe dry hop …
Read More »PMS Stout
Beer Style: stout Recipe Type: extract Description: I realize this has been done to death, BUT I’d like to make a really killer, dark chocolate, so thick you could almost pour it on top of the ice cream, PMS-bustin’ depression relievin’ Chocolate Stout. I’ve been doing some research, but I am by no means an experienced extract homebrewer, but here’s …
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Beer Style: stout, dry stout, Irish stout Recipe Type: extract Description: Help! I’m having some trouble with my Sally MacLennane stout. Tasting the blowoff from my primary convinved me that this would be perhaps my best dark yet, but a sample taken while racking revealed an overly powerful fruity/ /acidic/sour/red wine taste, most likely from the roasted barley, which I …
Read More »Oregon Stout
Beer Style: Stout Recipe Type: extract Description: I’m tasting it in a few days, so ill update then. Ingredients: 8 lbs ultralight liquid malt extract 1 lb Crystal 40L 8 oz Black Roasted malt 4 oz Black Patent malt 4 oz Chocolate malt 7/8 lb Oregon Clover Honey 1.75 cups mandarin juice (fresh squeezed if possible) 3/4 lb mandarin peels …
Read More »Ohio Valley Mud Stout
Beer Style: stout, coffee, chocolate Recipe Type: extract Description: Just thought I would share my recipe with those who like stouts. It recently won first place (Score=46) in the stout category in The First Annual Dayton Homebrew Competition. It didn’t win best of show, but I’ll try again next year. I also just brewed it for the second time and …
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Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout, wheat Recipe Type: extract Description: This recipe was developed by Kenneth Kramer and was published in the June 1986 issue of All About Beer magazine. I won’t comment on the choice of hops. Ingredients: 3.3 pounds, Edme Irish stout extract 3.3 pounds, Edme light beer extract 3 pounds, pale, 2-row malt 2 pounds, crystal malt …
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Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout Recipe Type: extract Description: I hve been having very good luck and a tasty stout using the following recipe. Ingredients: 8 lbs british malt extract 1 LB roasted malt 1/4 Lb black patent 1 lb carapils 1 lb rolled oats 1 oz eroica (boiling) 3/4 oz willamette (50 min) 1 pkg wyeast irish ale yeast …
Read More »Grant’s Imperial Stout Clone
Beer Style: stout, Russian Imperial stout, imperial stout, Grants Imperial stout, Recipe Type: extract Description: This is an extract recipe (with specialty grains) that I made with a friend several years ago (we got the recipe somewhere, but I can’t remember where). The FG turned out a little high, but it tasted a lot like Grant’s. The major problem with …
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