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May 14, 2017 8:44 AM Subscribe
What Are Your Favorite Homebrew Recipes?
Looking to get out of my homebrewing rut. I find that I make the same half dozen or so beer recipes (many are kits from my local homebrew shop).
What are your favorite 5 gallon partial grain or all extract recipes?
And to share, here's one of my favorites
Rogue Shakespeare Stout Clone
Grain:
8 oz US 120L Crystal Malt Grain (cracked)
8 oz US Roasted Barley Grain (cracked)
8 oz Chocolate Malt Grain (cracked)
8 oz Pale Malt Grain (cracked)
4 oz Rolled Oats
Extract:
6 lbs Amber Malt extract
2 lbs Dark Dry Mals
English Style ale yeast
6 oz Cascade Hops
Steep grains 45 mins in 3 quarts 175F water.
Sparge with 2 gallons of 165-170F water.
Bring to a boil, add extract, return to boil.
0 min: add 2 oz hops
30 min: add 2 oz hops
50 min: add 2 oz hops
Cool, ferment.
OG - 1.060-1.064; FG 1.015-16 ABV: 6%
Looking to get out of my homebrewing rut. I find that I make the same half dozen or so beer recipes (many are kits from my local homebrew shop).
What are your favorite 5 gallon partial grain or all extract recipes?
And to share, here's one of my favorites
Rogue Shakespeare Stout Clone
Grain:
8 oz US 120L Crystal Malt Grain (cracked)
8 oz US Roasted Barley Grain (cracked)
8 oz Chocolate Malt Grain (cracked)
8 oz Pale Malt Grain (cracked)
4 oz Rolled Oats
Extract:
6 lbs Amber Malt extract
2 lbs Dark Dry Mals
English Style ale yeast
6 oz Cascade Hops
Steep grains 45 mins in 3 quarts 175F water.
Sparge with 2 gallons of 165-170F water.
Bring to a boil, add extract, return to boil.
0 min: add 2 oz hops
30 min: add 2 oz hops
50 min: add 2 oz hops
Cool, ferment.
OG - 1.060-1.064; FG 1.015-16 ABV: 6%
Use Kent Golding hops instead of Cascade, with proper adjustments for IBUs.
The terpene profiles are notably different, and the Golding is good for stouts.
Use an Irish Ale yeast instead of the English Ale yeast you are using.
The animalcules have their own distinct tendencies.
Don't substitute one pound of dark roast coffee for your roasted barley and chocolate malt. Decaffeinated coffee might be more user-friendly in the final product, but that's moot because I suggested not substituting it; just put it right out of your mind.
posted by the Real Dan at 12:25 PM on May 14, 2017
The terpene profiles are notably different, and the Golding is good for stouts.
Use an Irish Ale yeast instead of the English Ale yeast you are using.
The animalcules have their own distinct tendencies.
Don't substitute one pound of dark roast coffee for your roasted barley and chocolate malt. Decaffeinated coffee might be more user-friendly in the final product, but that's moot because I suggested not substituting it; just put it right out of your mind.
posted by the Real Dan at 12:25 PM on May 14, 2017
Response by poster: No, no - I'm not looking to tweak my Rogue clone. I'm looking for your favorite 5 gallon brew recipes. What have you brewed that's so good you find yourself handing out bottles of it.
posted by plinth at 1:28 PM on May 14, 2017
posted by plinth at 1:28 PM on May 14, 2017
I just noticed you specified extract or partial, so my comment above doesn't quite apply either; sorry. The other one I've been pleased with was Common Room ESB, from the HomeBrewTalk Top 100 Recipes, although it too is an all-grain recipe. I have the BYO Fullers' ESB and London Pride clones bookmarked to try also, which do have partial-grain variants.
I've found the r/homebrewing subreddit quite useful for lurking in and bookmarking recipes from; lots of "recommend me a recipe" and "I brewed this and it was great" posts, fairly low reddit-dudebro level.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 4:24 PM on May 14, 2017 [1 favorite]
I've found the r/homebrewing subreddit quite useful for lurking in and bookmarking recipes from; lots of "recommend me a recipe" and "I brewed this and it was great" posts, fairly low reddit-dudebro level.
posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 4:24 PM on May 14, 2017 [1 favorite]
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posted by We had a deal, Kyle at 10:16 AM on May 14, 2017