Brewing & Recipes

Beer Style: pale ale, Pete’s Wicked Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’ve requested a recipe for Pete’s Wicked Ale, but nobody sent one, so I guess I’m going to have to wing it. This recipe is based on the GABF program, which says ” Pete’s has: pale, crystal and chocolate malts, and Chinook and Cascade hops. OG: 14P” (Isn’t that …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Perle pale was a beautiful light-golden ale, crisp yet full-bodied. Ingredients: 8 pounds, Klages malt 1 pound, flaked barley 1/2 pound, toasted Klages malt 1/2 pound, Cara-pils malt 1-1/2 ounces (12.4 AAUs), Perle hops (boil) 1/2 ounce, Willamette hops (finish) 1 teaspoon, gypsum 1/2 teaspoon, Irish moss 14 grams, Muntona ale yeast …

Beer Style: pale ale, rye ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This one is not bitter at all and the taste of the rye really comes through. I like to keep this one around in the summer so my friends don’t have to give me “bitter beer face” when I serve them my IPA. I take no credit for this recipe, …

Beer Style: old ale, pale ale, Old Peculier Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipe has been changed a bit from the original brew to allow for changes in my home brewery. The original was intended to dupe Old Peculier and it did an adequate job at that. It did a much better job, though, standing on its own as a …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Here’s a question for you judges/style gurus. I just bottled a beer which I had intended to be a pale ale. I often add 1/2 to 1 pound of crystal to a pale. I attempted to get the same color by using 2 ounces of chocolate malt. I now know that Ingredients: …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: In an interest to potentially revive a recurring thread, what is everyone drinking and/or brewing? I am drinking an especially malty/nutty pale ale to the tune of the following. It’s fantastic, the head is the best I’ve had, an inch and a half of richy creamy head that hangs around as long …

Beer Style: Pale Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Very nice Pale Ale. Slightly malty not too sweet and not too dry. This one is a keeper. Glacier and Horizon work well together. Ingredients: 8 lbs Pale Malt (2 Row) UK (3.0 SRM) 67.34 % 1 lbs Munich Malt (9.0 SRM) 8.42 % 1 lbs Vienna Malt (3.5 SRM) 8.42 % …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Based on Jackie Brown’s Summer Pale Ale (see Cats Meow 2, page 1–6). Heavenly Kent Goldings aroma; big mouthfeel; nice malt and hop flavors up front, with a good hop bite going down. Definitely not Lawnmower Brew. Ingredients: 8 pounds, Klages malt 1 pound, Munich malt (20 L.) 1 cup, Cara-Pils malt …

Beer Style: Pale Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: around 17-20 lovibond, beautifull red color.flavor is citrisy siera nevada pale ale,grape fruit.aroma is pale and hopy.creamy full head. Ingredients: 7.5# 2 row pale malt 1.5# crystal 60L malt 1.5oz cascade (bittering hops) 0.5oz centenial (flovor aroma hops) 1oz centenial (flavor aroma hops) 1 cup brown sugar 0.5# honey the peels of …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: As a born-again brewer, with a scientific bent and perhaps a wooden tongue, I decided that the best way to learn brewing was to start with the most basic recipe and process and find out just what basic beer, i.e. Generic Ale should taste like. Once I had that firmly established, I …