All Grain Recipes

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 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 …

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Several weeks ago I brewed my first partial mash where I used a significant amount of grain. It has been in the bottle about a month now and after extensive QC I think it is safe to post the recipe here without fear of recrimination. I was trying to …

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Soon it will be time to cask the IPA. I brewed it last monday, and it’s been happily/hoppily blebbing away since. I’m hoping I can get it through 2ndary and conditioned before the 22nd to celebrate and inebriate my birthday celebration. Good excuse to kill the entirety in one …

Beer Style: pale ale, India pale ale, I.P.A. Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This beer is best when consumed young. It will acquire a drier character as it ages. Ingredients: 11 pounds, 2-Row Klages Malt 1 pound, crystal malt (40 Lovibond) 1/2 pound, toasted malt (see below) 1/2 teaspoon, gypsum (to harden water) Lactic Acid (enough to bring mash water to …

Description: The purpose of this batch was two-fold – compare Wyeast’s new #1272 American Ale to #1056 American Ale and try Columbus as a bittering, flavor and dry hop. This was inspired by all the talk of Columbus hops in IPA’s (Rogue, Anderson Valley) and Delano Dugarm’s recipe posted Nov. 28, 1995. The departure from Delano’s recipe was Columbus for …