Brewing & Recipes

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: There is a book, Brew Your Own Real Ale at Home, that has scores of recipes using Challenger and other British hops. The book contains ACTUAL brewery recipes, and not gereric ones. The book retails for $14.99 (S&H included with pre-paid orders) and may be purchased from: The Info Devel PressReilly RoadLa …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Yummy. Ingredients: 9 pounds, British ale malt 1/2 pound, British crystal 2 ounces, Flaked barley 3/4 ounce, Eroica hops 1 ounce, Mt. Hood hops WYeast American Ale yeast Procedure: Mash with 3-1/2 gallons of water at 155 degrees (our water is very soft; I add 4 grams gypsum and 1/4 gram epsom …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: It’s flavor reminds me of SNPA and has the color of Bass. I hope some of you might be able to get ideas from it. Ingredients: 7 lbs pale malt 1 lb Munich malt 1 lb special roast malt (45L) 1/4 lb crystal malt (40L) 1/2 lb wheat malt 1/4 lb dextrine …

Beer Style: pale ale, Sierra Nevada Celebration Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: There was an early issue of Amateur Brewer (post-Eckhardt, pre-American Brewer, I believe) that had a recipe for Celebration Ale provided by one of the SN brewers. Here is a 10 gallon version, with a little fiddling. I’m pretty sure they harden the water with gypsum; I know …

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 …

Beer Style: pale ale, bitter, ordinary bitter, Boddington’s Recipe Type: all-grain Description: This recipe and the description of Boddington’s Bitter are derived (sometimes copied) from the book Brew Your Own Real Ale Ingredients: 6 lbs. (2720 g) English 2-row pale malt 1 oz. (28 g) black patent malt 3 ozs. (85 g) Cane (white table) Sugar 3/8 Cup (packed) soft …

Beer Style: pale ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’ve just tryed my newest batch of ale and it is my best yet! Ingredients: 9 lbs pale two row malt .5 lbs pils 2-row .5 lbs crystal 55L 1 oz Perle at 45 min remaining .5 oz Cascade at 15 min remaining 1 oz Hallertauer (10 min. steep) Wyeast American pale …

Beer Style: pale ale, Bass Recipe Type: all-grain Description: Here’s one that’s not too bad…you can modify it to make it more authentic, I’m sure. Ingredients: 7 pounds American Two-Row (the “American” style, remember!) 1 pound Caravienne (substitute light crystal malt, etc.) 1 pound Brown Sugar 1 oz. EKG (5.0%) 60 minutes 1/2 oz. EKG (5.0%) 30 minutes 1/2 oz. …

Beer Style: pale ale, Bass Ale Recipe Type: all-grain Description: I’m a hophead (as you may have guessed). Purists may object to brown sugar in beer, but a careful tasting of Bass reveals brown sugar or molasses in the finish—not as strong as in Newcastle, but present. British malt, in particular, can easily stand up to a bit of sugar, …

Beer Style: pale ale, rice, light beer Recipe Type: all-grain Description: We originally formulated this recipe because the Shade Tree Brewery (a.k.a Paul’s driveway) was prone to producing deep, flavorful, chewy brews. Our friends “who don’t like beer” seemed to shy away from our keg and crack open a Coors Light instead. The solution – brew a rice beer for …