My Basic Recipe Thread

[jpsherman]

Don't want to start a new thread each time I have a basic recipe.

So I will post some here.

CanGer Wheat:
1 Bavarian HME
1 Canadian HME
1 booster
2 yeast (mr beer)

Turned out good after 8 weeks, but not great.

[jpsherman]

Sara is My Honey Ale

1 CAL HME
1 booster
2 oz honey
.5 oz Columbus
1 mr. beer yeast

Dissolve honey & booster in water. add .25 oz hops for 10 minutes, .25 @ flameout

Cold crashed for 2 days.

This was awesome! Great grapefruit flavor, a hint of piney bitter finish.

[jpsherman]

Robusterfest

1 Ocktoberfest HME
1 Robust LME
mr beer yeast

Decent after 4 weeks, but a bit watery. Next time it should get at least 1/2# DME.

Aug15th Edit:

This one needs 7-8 weeks for the cideryness to subside and the coffee flavor to shine.

[jpsherman]

Bavarian Perle

1 Bavarian HME
.5 oz Perle
1 mr beer yeast
2T cracked coriander into the boiling water

I pitched this one a little hot (71 degrees) but that gave me great banana/colve flavors.

SWMBO has dubbed this my best beer yet!

[jpsherman]

Lime Cerveza

1 Mexican Cerveza HME
Juice and zest of 2 limes

I rolled the limes around between my hand and the counter top, this is supposed to help release the oils in the zest.

This is a very light beer, kinda watery, but the lime flavor was spot on. SWMBO loves it, especially because it is such a light beer. So I guess this batch was for her.

If I made this again I would add 1# of DME, and pump up the carbonation a tad.

[BeerRust]

Lime Cerveza

1 Mexican Cerveza HME
Juice and zest of 2 limes

I rolled the limes around between my hand and the counter top, this is supposed to help release the oils in the zest.

This is a very light beer, kinda watery, but the lime flavor was spot on. SWMBO loves it, especially because it is such a light beer. So I guess this batch was for her.

If I made this again I would add 1# of DME, and pump up the carbonation a tad.

I did sort of the same thing. But added light DME and cascade hops was not light and the wife loved it too.

[jpsherman]

Defibrillator Doppelbock Mod

1 Winter Dark Ale HME
1 Robust LME
1 Smooth LME (instead of using booster)

This thing nearly overflowed the LBK.

Very tasty after just 2 months in bottle. FGood coffee bitterness, followed by a warming feeling. A bit of alcohol bite.

[Foothiller]

To see bow the Northwest Pale Ale will do as a foundation for other recipes, I brewed this:

2.86 lb can NWPA, 0.5 lb light DME, S-04 yeast, fermented at about 70F

OG=1.065, predicted IBU=44, predicted SRM=5, predicted ABV=6.3%, actual FG=1.014, actual ABV=6.7%

I'm pretty happy with the result: very tasty, flavor like Cascade, balanced bitterness but with a malty presence, but the color is closer to SRM=10.

[jpsherman]

I love me some Columbus hops and after less than a month in the bottle this already tastes amazing. Its my mod of the mr.beer recipe by dumping plenty of hops.
Suprisingly this has delicious hoppy flavor with less bitterness than I expected, but still has a malty flavor to it. May be a new favorite.

Chug-a-lug 'Merica
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Brewer:
Style: American Pale Ale
Batch: 2.14 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.058 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 43 IBU
Recipe Color: 2° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.6%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.4%

Ingredients
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Mr. Beer Booster 0.81 lb, Sugar, Other
Mr. Beer BrewMax Pale - LME 0.55 lb, Extract, Extract
Mr. Beer/Coopers Mexican Cerveza1.87 lb, Extract, Extract

Columbus - Dual purpose hop with intense earthy and faint citrus character. Use in American ales0.25 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes
Columbus - Dual purpose hop with intense earthy and faint citrus character. Use in American ales0.25 oz, Pellet, 0 minutes
Columbus - Dual purpose hop with intense earthy and faint citrus character. Use in American ales0.50 oz, Pellet, 20 minutes
Mr. Beer/Coopers Mexican Cerveza1.00 oz, Pellet, 5 minutes


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