Brewing & Recipes

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 …

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 …

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 …

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, …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …