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Brew Your Own Beer - 3 - Brew Your Own Beer Australian RedBack Category Wheat Beer Recipe Type All Grain 7.75 lbs mix of 66% malted wheat extract and 33% barley 1 lbs crystal malt (steeped, removed before boil) 1 lbs amber unhopped dry malt extract Hops 1.5 oz Kent Goldings hops (5.6% alpha) (60 minute .5 oz Kent Goldings (10 minute boil) .5 oz Kent Goldings (5 minute boil) .5 oz Kent Goldings (in strainer, pour wort through) Other .5 oz Irish moss (15 minute boil) .75 oz Burton water salts Yeast 2 packs Doric ale yeast (started 2 hours prior to brew) Procedure My primary ferment started in 1 hour and was surprisingly vigorous for 36 hours. It finished in 48 hours. It has been fermenting slowly for 5 days and now has stopped blowing CO2 through the airlock at any noticeable rate (less than 1 bubble every 3--4 minutes) I took a hydrometer reading last night and it read 1.018. This seems high for a F.G. in comparison to my other beers of the same approximate S.G. The last 1/2 ounce of hops was put in a strainer in a funnel and wort strained through it on its way to the carboy, as described in Papazian. A blow-off tube was used. Brew Your Own Beer - 4 - Bass Ale Category Pale Ale Recipe Type All Grain Fermentables 6-7 lbs pale malt (2-row) 1 lbs crystal malt 1 lbs demarara or dark brown sugar Hops 1 oz Northern Brewer hops (boil) 1 oz Fuggles hops (boil 30 min.) .5 oz Fuggles hops (finish) Yeast ale yeast Procedure This is an all-grain recipe---follow the instructions for an infusion mash in Papazian, or another text. The Northern Brewer hops are boiled for a full hour, the Fuggles for 1/2 hour, and the Fuggles finishing hops after the wort is removed from the heat, it is then steeped 15 minutes. Brew Your Own Beer - 5 - Blackout Brown Ale Category Brown Ale Recipe Type All Grain Fermentables 7 lbs Klages malt .25 lbs chocolate malt .25 lbs black patent malt .5 lbs 80 L. crystal malt .75 cup corn sugar (priming) Hops 1 oz Willamette hops (3.8% alpha) (boil 60 minutes) 4/5 oz Perle hops (8.5% alpha) (boil 30 minutes) .5 oz Willamette hops (3.8% alpha) (dry hop) Other .5 tsp Irish moss (boil 15 minutes) Yeast Wyeast English ale yeast Procedure I use Papazian's temperature-controlled mash (30 minutes at 122, 90 minutes at 155-- 145, sparge at 170). Total boil time was 1 hour. Cool and pitch yeast. After 6 days, rack to secondary and dry hop. One week later, prime and bottle Brew Your Own Beer - 6 - British Bitter Category Pale Ale Recipe Type Extract Fermentables 5 to Alexander's pale malt extract .5 lbs crystal malt Hops 1-1/4 oz Cascade hops (boil) .25 oz Cascade hops (finish) Other 10 oz dextrose (optional) Yeast Munton & Fison ale yeast Procedure Steep crystal malt and sparge twice. Add extract and dextrose and bring to boil. Add Cascade hops and boil 60 minutes. In last few minutes add remaining 1/4 ounce of Cascade (or dry hop, if desired). Chill and pitch yeast. Brew Your Own Beer - 7 - Carp Ale Category Pale Ale Recipe Type Extract Fermentables 3 lbs Munton & Fison light DME 3 lbs M&F amber DME 1 lbs crystal malt Hops 2.6 oz Fuggles hops (4.7% alpha= 12.22 AAU) 1 oz Kent Goldings hops (5.9% alpha = 5.9 AAU) Other 1/4 tsp Irish moss Yeast 1 pack Brewer's Choice #1098 (British ale yeast) Procedure Break seal of yeast ahead of time and prepare a starter solution about 10 hours before brewing. Bring 2 gallons water to boil with crushed crystal malt. Remove crystal when boil starts. Fill to 6 gallons and add DME. After boiling 10 minutes, add Fuggles. At 55 minutes, add a pinch of Irish moss. At 58 minutes, add Kent Goldings. Cool (I used an immersion chiller) to about 80 degrees. Pitch yeast and ferment for about a week. Rack to secondary for 5 days. Keg. Brew Your Own Beer - 8 - Granolabrau Category Pale Ale Recipe Type All Grain Fermentables 6 lbs 6-row cracked pale malt 1 lbs white or brown rice 1 lbs yellow corn grits or flaked maize 6 oz flaked barley 4 oz oatmeal 1.5 lbs clover or orange blossom honey Other 4 oz millet Yeast Wyeast German ale yeast (#1007) Procedure Cook rice, grits, oatmeal and millet together in plenty of water for 3 hours to gelatinize. The result should be a mushy, gummy mess. Mash malt, barley and gelatinized grains in moderately hard water at 150F for 1-1/2 hours. Raise to 168F to deactivate enzymes. Sparge with hot water (168F) to collect 250+ degrees of extract (e.g., 6 gallons at S.G. 1.042). Boil 1-1/2 hours, adding all but 1/2 ounce of hops after 1 hour, honey towards end of boil. Chill wort and add cold water to bring S.G. to 1.050. Pitch with working starter. Dry-hop with reserved hops in hopping bag. Primary fermentation takes 5-7 days. Wyeast 1007 will require 3-4 weeks in secondary fermenter to settle out. Bottle, then age 2 months. Drink and enjoy! Brew Your Own Beer - 9 - Honey Basil Category Spiced Beers Recipe Type All Grain I have brewed this beer, 4 times this year, each time changing the recipe. This one was a good one. It won best of show, 1996 Oregon Homebrewing festival in Albany,OR. Fermentables 8 lbs pale malt 3 lbs. crystal(40L) 4 lbs. munich 1 lb. honey Hops Mt Hood 1 oz. boil Mt Hood 1 oz 45 minutes Other 1 oz. FRESH basil Yeast Wyeast American ale # 1056 Procedure Mash at 122 F. for 20 minutes, 150 F. for 45 minutes. Add honey and basil at the end of the boil. Simple Wheat Beer Category Wheat Beer Recipe Type Extract Fermentables 6.6 lbs wheat malt extract Hops 1 oz Hallertauer hops (boil 60 minutes) Yeast Wyeast Bavarian wheat yeast Procedure Boil extract and hops. Dump in fermenter with enough cold water to make 5 gallons. Pitch yeast. Brew Your Own Beer - 10 - Pale Ale Category Pale Ale Recipe Type Extract Fermentables 3.3 lbs light M&F DME 3 lbs light unhopped M&F malt extract 1 lbs crystal malt Hops 2 oz Willamette hops Yeast Wyeast #1007 Procedure Started yeast 48 hours prior to brew. Used 1 cup DME boiled in 2 cups water for primer. 1 ounce Willamette at start of boil 1, ounce at end. Boiled 1/2 hour, sat 1/2 hour, strained into primary, pitched yeast, fermented at 78 in primary for 1 week, secondary for 2 weeks. Used bottled water because my water has a high concentration of calcium and no cholorine.