Beer Recipes Are Easily Created To Suit Your Favourite Style And Taste
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BEER RECIPES FOR HOME BREW
Beer recipes are as numerous as the number of home brewers making beer. Each brewer tends to adapt a basic beer recipe to suit his own taste or style of brewing. You have a choice of making beer in the traditional method of first creating your own wort; or using a beer can kit; or using a bulk pack of premixed wort that is ready to ferment in it's existing plastic pack. Traditional Brewing Recipes
The traditional method of making home brew beer is to create your own wort starting from malted grain and dried hops. So, for the enthusiast brewer, here are some homemade beer recipes.
Light Ale:
Makes 22.5 litres(5 gallons).
2.5 kg pale malt grains
250 g crystal malt grains
75 g hops 6.5 - 8.5 AA e.g Challenger Hops
Mash malt at 65 °C (149 °F), Sparge and boil with hops, cool, top up with cold drinkable water allowing for any additional sugar liquid to achieve a specific gravity of 1030 to 1034. Add yeast at temperature less than 25 °C and bottle after fermentation has completed and liquid cleared. Store for about a month.
Brown Ale:
Makes 22.5 litres (5 gallons)
1.5 kg pale malt grains
500 g crystal malt grains
250 g chocolate malt grains
250 g flaked wheat
60 g 'Northdown' hops (7 - 9 AA)
Drinkable water
Ale yeast
Mash at 60 °C (140 °F) for 2 hours, sparge and boil the wort with all the hops for three-quarters of an hour. Strain, cool, add cold water and add liquid sugar to create specific gravity of 1034 - 1036. Pitch the yeast, ferment for about a week and bottle. Store for a month. Enjoy your malty hoppy drop.
Lager:
2.5 kg of lager malt or pale malt
500 g flaked maize or rice
Mash at 55 °C (131 °F) for half an hour, followed by half an hour at 60 °C (140 °F), then at 65 °C (149 °F) for half an hour, then cool to 60 °C and maintain for an hour or so.
Strain, sparge and boil the wort with the hops for three-quarters of an hour.
Strain, add cold drinkable water, add liquid sugar to adjust specific gravity to 1040 - 1044. Pitch yeast at Lager temperature as advised with the supply of yeast; ferment until fermentation is finished by monitoring SG, and bottle. Depending on the yeast, lager may require fermentation as low as 9 - 10 °C.
If you really like to make home brew beer using the traditional method, there are many good books on the subject and heaps of recipes.
Can Kit Recipes
For modern home brewers, the easiest way to make recipes are variations of readily available beer can kits.
Pale Ale:
Can kit of Pale Ale
500g white sugar
500g Liquid light malt extract
Pkt (14g) hop pellets - Goldings (see Table)
Pkt yeast (that comes with the kit). Add to wort when temperature is right.
Sanitise your fermenter and utensiles in the usual way. Prepare can kit and can of malt extract for easy pouring from can by pre-heating in a saucepan of hot water to soften the thick syrup. (My stove has solid hot plates and I sit the can directly on hot plate at lowest temperature setting for a few minutes only). Open can opposite end to heated end and use a plastic spatular to scrape out contents. The usual procedure is to pour everything into the fermenter and add boiling, stir to dissolve, add cold tap water and chilled water and/or ice to keep temperature within limits under 25 o C. Always use a thermometer and do not pitch yeast if temperature is too high. (I prefer to dissolve sugars, powdered extracts and can contents in water in a large clean stainless saucepan on the stove to keep the volume of hot liquid to a minimum.) Keep some water and punnets of ice in the fridge for adding to control temperature. Pitch the yeast when temperature is within limits as advised in kit instructions.
Whatever style of beer you like, whatever flavour, dark or light, sweet or bitter, extra malt, extra hops, or whatever, you can experiment and adapt existing recipes or create your own beer recipes. |
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