Brewing & Recipes

Beer Style: stout, chocolate Recipe Type: partial mash Description: There are several recipes that I have seen that use unsweetened bakers chocolate in stouts and porters. I brewed my first porter a few weeks ago – a variation on Papazian’s recipe that calls for the kitchen sink. My variation is a partial mash. Ingredients: 2 lb Pale Ale malt 1 …

Beer Style: stout, mint stout, chocolate, coffee Recipe Type: extract Description: This beer tastes great but needs to be served warmer to taste all the flavors. I think the chocolate and coffee flavors blend nicely with the dark roasted stout flavors. I couldn’t taste as much coffee as I wanted to so on my next batch I greatly increasted the …

Beer Style: stout, fruit beer, blackberry stout Recipe Type: extract Description: This stuff is very tasty. Ingredients: 6 pounds, dark DME 6-8 cups altogether, roasted barley, chocolate malt, black Procedure: I used frozen blackberries and put them in the bottom of a plastic primary, and poured the hot wort onto them to partially sterilize. No need to crush them up …

Beer Style: stout, dry stout Recipe Type: extract Description: Many will recognize the ingredients as a combination of some of the favorite recipes found in various homebrew books. This stout was an experiment in blending flavors to achieve the best of all things “I” desire in a stout.It is similar to Mark Stevens “Black Cat Stout #1” with a few …

Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout Recipe Type: extract Description: A heavy thick brew. The flavor lasts for upwards of a minute. (hops and dark grains followed by full malt and grain flavor, finishing with molasses. Bit alcoholic tasting when warm. Ingredients: 3.3 pounds, liquid Northwestern amber 3.3 pounds, liquid Northwestern dark 3 pounds, pale 2 row 2 pounds, dark crystal …

Beer Style: stout, Irish stout, dry stout, coffee Recipe Type: extract Description: This stout turned out pretty tasty and the coffee flavor seems to come through more in the aftertaste with the predominant flavor being the dark malts. I should probably have let it ferment in the secondary a bit longer or not used anything for priming because I got …

Beer Style: Dry Stout Recipe Type: extract Description: Smooth Dry Stout that rivals that of he store bought Variety, make sure you save 2 bottles from each batch to sour for the next batch. This will give it the sour hint that Guiness has. Ingredients: 6.6 lbs Dark Malt Extract .60 lbs Roasted Barley .40 lbs Flaked Barley .25lb Black …

Beer Style: stout, dry stout, Irish stout Recipe Type: extract Description: There are scads of other additives that can lobbed into a stout without damaging it. Almost anything works when making stout, but matching your own taste preference is a matter of experimentation. Be prepared though to give up drinking commercial bottled stouts, because frankly, nothing can match the taste …

Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout, Anderson Valley Barney Flats Recipe Type: partial mash Description: This is an attempt to emulate Anderson Valley’s Barney Flats Oatmeal Stout. This beer is super thick and creamy. I think the body is almost a dead ringer for Anderson Valley’s stout, as I did a side by side two nights ago. I would not go …

Beer Style: stout, oatmeal stout Recipe Type: all-grain Description: My wife really liked Sam Adams Cream Stout when we had some last summer. I thought I’d try to make a beer with that nice creamy, roasty flavor, but lower gravity, for her graduation party last weekend. Tasting notes (after 1 week in bottle/keg): Yum! Initial roasty-malty aroma with a hint …