Extract Recipes

Hoppy Amber Wheat

Description: After 2 weeks in the bottle, this was a VERY hoppy beer. In my opinion it was too hoppy for the style. The color was a beautiful amber and it was very clear. After 2 months the hop bite subsided somewhat and it is now an excellent brew—crisp, clear and aggressive with a very white white head considering the …

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Easy Blackberry Wheat Ale

Description: Hey, I’m new to the game, so I keep things very simple. This beer is very drinkable, smells great, tastes great, and looks like any other cloudy wheat beer. Ingredients: Yields 2 gallons of brew: A little over 2 gallons of spring water (no tap!!! get some freakin’ Ozarka) 1.5 lbs of dry wheat/25% barley extract 2 tbls pellet …

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Drew’s Brew Wheat Beer

Description: I’ve gotten a number of complements on my extract wheat beer, and a request for the recipe, so I thought I’d post it here. This is about he simplest recipe I’ve ever made, and it tastes great. Clean and refreshing, and a little on the light bodied side. I might lower the lovibond rating of the crystal malt to …

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Cherry Wheat

Ingredients: 6.6 pounds TRUMALT wheat extract syrup 3 ounces Halletau hop pellets 2 teaspoons Irish Moss 4 ounces Carlson cherry extract Wyeast American Ale yeast #1056 Procedure: Add the extract and 2 ounces of Hallertau (for bittering) to 1.5 to 2 gallons of water. The TRUMALT extract comes in these wierd foil bags (3.3 pounds per bag, I used two …

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Belgian Wheat

Description: A light amber colored beer with little to no head. Easy drinking with a sweet citrus flavour. Ingredients: 6 lbs. Wheat Malt syrup extract 2 lbs. Dry Wheat extract 1 oz. Hallertaurer (60 min.) 1 Orange (15 min.) 1 Tsp. Citric Acid (15 min) 1 Tsp. Coriander crushed (15 min.) 1/2 oz. Hallertauer (5 min.) 1 cup Honey Belgian …

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Bavarian Weiss

Description: This was a much fuller bodied beer than would be called for in this style beer. Also the color and the way light passes through the liquid is far from my idea of shining golden Bavarian Weiss. Ingredients: 2 3.3 pound cans, M&F wheat malt extract 1–1/2 ounces, Hallertauer hops (boiling) 1/2 ounce, Hallertauer hops (Finishing) 1/4 teaspoon, Irish …

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Swill Clone

Description: One of the biggest problems i have had is many of my friends insist that Budwieser and Corona are the best tasting beers (yuck). They simply have not been spoiled, as many of us have been, with ‘good’ and ‘real’ beer. The following recipe normally wins the hearts of beer-flavored-water drinkers as well as provides a stepping stone for …

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Lazy Saturday Lager

Description: I made the following light lager recipe one weekend when I was too lazy to make an all-grain batch. It turned out very nicely, after 1.5 months of lagering, and my American lager-loving friends drank it all in a very short time. Ingredients: 9.00 lb. Light Malt Extract Syrup 2.50 lb. Cara-Pils Dextrine 2.50 lb. Munich Light 2.50 oz. …

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Bulwark American Lager

Description: (This brewer had some problems with this batch, but it’s likely related to technique…the recipe looks sound. –Ed.) Ingredients: 3 lbs 5 oz Munton & Fison American Light Malt Syrup (boil 60 mins) 1 lb Munton & Fison Light Dried Malt Extract (boil 60 mins) 1 oz Willamette Pellets (3.9% Alpha) (boil 45 mins) 1/2 oz Cascade Pellets (5.6% …

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Hoppy Mama’s IPA

Description: Mama likes her IPA a little on the sweet side. Nice light color, nice taste. Used some homegrown Magnum hops. Full wort boil – final volume 5.1 gallons after boil. 5.7% ABV beer. 4.8 gallons total kegged. A very good brew result. Ingredients: 7.0 lb. Light Liquid Malt Extract 1.0 lb. Muntons Light DME (hopped) 1.25 lb. Caramel 20L …

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