Brewing & Recipes

Beer Style: porter Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Well, Scott and I tapped my Brown Malt Porter Recipe for the first time over the weekend, and its very good. Not as heavy a porter as Anchor or Sierra Nevada, more like Samuel Smiths Taddy Porter. Has a nice discreet bitterness to it from the Hugh Baird Brown Malt and a rich …

Beer Style: porter Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Ingredients: 8 pounds, 2-row Klage malt 1 pound, crystal malt (90 Lovibond) 1 pound, dextrin malt 1/2 pound, chocolate malt 1/2 pound, black malt 1/2 teaspoon, gypsum lactic acid to adjust mash water to pH 5.2 1-1/3 ounces, Northern Brewer hop pellets (8.5% pellets) 1/2 ounce, Fuggle hop pellets (3.7% alpha) 1 teaspoon, …

Beer Style: porter, fruit beer, blackberry porter Recipe Type: extract Description: Partial Grain Recipe, 3rd Place Fruit Beer 1995 Santa Rosa Brewfest, Fort Walton Beach Fl. Next time I brew this, I would take special precautions in my racking process to get all of the fruit seed out by employing some means of filtration to the process. Ingredients: 6.6 lbs …

Beer Style: porter, Deschutes clone Recipe Type: all-grain Description: After months of research and development, here is the oft requested and seldom (if ever) seen clone recipe for Deschutes Brewing’s Black Butte Porter! The first attempt was VERY close, but lacked the roasty flavor overtone and sweetness of the Real Thing. I’ve adjusted the recipe accordingly, and here it is! …

Beer Style: porter, Anchor Porter Recipe Type: partial mash Description: I made a porter last year that was loosely based on Miller’s partial mash Ingredients: 4 lb British pale ale 2-row malt 1 lb black patent malt 1/2 lb dark crystal malt 3.3 lbs M&F extra light syrup 12.8 AAU Northern Brewer (boil) Wyeast #1084, the Fighting Irish Procedure: Mash …

Beer Style: porter Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipes is based on Papazian’s “Silver Dollar Porter.” I suspect the difference in quality between this batch and an extract batch is going to be the difference between fresh-brewed coffee and instant. The wort had a much better hot and cold break than I’ve ever experienced using extracts, and it tasted better …

Beer Style: porter, Anchor porter Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I recently tasted my all-grain porter against Anchor’s and the big thing I notice was Anchor Porter is thick, creamy. Mine is low carbonated, but it does not have that creamy feel. This was my first all-grain brew and my first porter. It has a good malt flavor. Next time I …

Beer Style: India Pale Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: If you haven’t tried mashing yet, you really should. You can start small and grow as equipment and funds permit. Also, by starting small, you don’t have a large sum invested in equipment if you decide mashing isn’t for you. Ingredients: 2-1/2, pounds pale malt 5 ounces, crystal malt (80L) 5.5 …

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: One of my goals as a brewer is to come up with a beer so bitter and hoppy that no one will drink it but me. This was an attempt at that, but I don’t think it was quite bitter enough. At one of our club meetings, there were …

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’ve just completed brewing my first all grain batch after about 20 extract batches. For background, the recipe I was using was based on the IPA from Ingredients: 6 lbs Klages [I would boost this to 8+. –Ed.] 1 lb Crystal malt 1 lb light DME (due to low …