Best Beer Recipes

Every homebrewer dreams of creating a great beer. But before brewing Pliny the Elder Double IPA at home, you probably want to try your hand at simpler recipes. The Cool Material website provides examples of varieties that have received high marks in beer competitions. On the eve of the next competition for home brewers, Pivo.by publishes a translation of the material.

Kraken stout

Stout • OG: 1.061 • FG: 1.014 • ABV: 6.2% • IBU: 48

James Koontz won the local tournament in Denver with this beer. Not only is it delicious, it's also easy to cook. Instead of aging in barrels, the recipe calls for aging on oak chips previously soaked in spicy black Kraken rum to give the beer the heady aroma of this drink.

Brisket in a Bottle

Rauchbier • OG: 1.056 • FG: 1.015 • ABV: 5.4% • IBU: N / A

If you don't like smoked beer, the Breast in a Bottle is probably not for you. However, if you are a fan of rauchbirs, this is your option. Having won its prize in 2009, it still goes well with the grill. Brisket in a bottle and brisket on a plate - sounds perfect.

Lion's Share

Strong Ale • OG: 1.090 • FG: 1.026 • ABV: 8.6% • IBU: 80

Multi-award winning Strong Ale from Maltose Falcons, the legendary homebrewing club after which one of their beers is named Firestone Walker. First brewed in 2012, it received high marks. Used hops Simcoe and Amarillo, as well as Denny's Favorite 50 yeast (Wyeast 1450), thanks to which the strength of the beer is 8.6%. Not overly sweet, but full-bodied and hoppy ale.

The bearded lady

Blackberry Stout • OG: 1.062 • FG: 1.017 • ABV: 6.5% • IBU: 30

After winning gold in the All American Homebrew Competition last year, The Bearded Lady takes on a new challenge for aspiring brewers: Add berries. Fear not: as long as you disinfect your equipment and keep it clean, it's not that difficult. Plus, a well-cooked blueberry stout will impress even the most skilled beer nerd.

Mow the Damn Lawn

Lite American Lager • OG: 1.048 • FG: 1.008 • ABV: 5.3% • IBU: N / A

An invigorating and refreshing drink to cool off when working in the sun. Why not create your own American lager? Lager fermentation takes place at lower temperatures and a little longer - but if you start right now, you can be in time for the start of summer work.

Hop-Fu

American IPA • OG: 1.065 • FG: 1.014 • ABV: 6.7% • IBU: 120

If you're looking to make something hoppy, try this 2010 National Home Brewing Conference winner. Hop-Fu is a fine bitter (120 IBU) American IPA with Chinook, Warrior, CTZ, Simcoe, Amarillo, Citra and Centennial hops. Just order a ton of hops and get started.

A Festbier for the Rest of Us

Märzen • OG: 1.056 • FG: 1.014 • ABV: 5.51% • IBU: 24.6

Marcenas are a malt style that is good regardless of the season. This recipe beat over 150 competitors in the European Amber Lager category, winning the top award a couple of years ago at the National Home Brewers Conference.

Opening day pale ale

Pale Ale • OG: 1.060 • FG: 1.013 • ABV: 6% • IBU: 53.3

Featuring Centennial and Simcoe hops, this pale ale has a juicy citrus profile. The ABV is 6%, so you can drink a few glasses and still be fine.

Brett strawberry farmhouse

Farmhouse Ale • OG: 1.055 • FG: 1.000 • ABV: 7.2% • IBU: 19

It probably shouldn't be the first beer you'll brew, but when you're ready for a more challenging project, and if you're a fan of flavorful beers, nothing can be found better than this award-winning last year. All you need are strawberries, apples, coriander, orange peel and Brettanomyces yeast to end up with a delicious, fruity beer.

Cheap Leather Jacket Barley Wine

American Barleywine • OG: 1.112 • FG: 1.022 • ABV: 11.8% • IBU: N / A

Brewing a beer with a high alcohol content is a challenge for the aspiring brewer, but if you want to try this is the way to go. In an American Barleywine brewed by Alex Buerkholz in 2008, the alcohol is well balanced with notes of hops.

Beer recipes for home brewing. It's no secret that the taste, strength, bitterness level and many other indicators depend on the beer recipe. Homebrew recipes can be found in abundance on the Internet, however, I will try to collect only proven homebrew recipes. It is not difficult to brew beer at home if the recipe is followed closely. The taste of the finished drink is highly dependent on malts, hops and temperature breaks. Naturally, in this section of the site, I will indicate such important and necessary data for the correct recipe for beer.

First beer recipe.

In ancient Armenia, beer was usually made from barley. In ancient China, beer was brewed from sprouted rice, as well as rice and fruits. European monks have improved the technology of brewing, starting to use hops as a preservative. If you have your own recipe, be sure to send it to me. Oatmeal stout - recipe

There are many recipes for oatmeal stout on the Internet, but they all boil down to one simple message:

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May 11th, 2018 | admin

Banana Ale

Banana ale is a very peculiar drink. Many people assure me that this recipe is complete nonsense, however, I am convinced of the opposite. I love bananas and I love beer, and beer with bananas is very interesting and unusual. »

May 10th, 2018 | admin

Red ale

The recipe for red ale is not so difficult to find, but my search was not crowned with success immediately. Some recipes used chocolate malt, others added caramel malt. Not that I'm picking on, but it seems to me that the recipe for red ale should describe the red ale, not brown ale or amber. Without further ado, I decided to just write my recipe. So, welcome - the recipe for red ale.

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March 26th, 2018 | admin

Milk stout recipe

Milk stout is a dark beer with a special softness due to lactose. There are many different recipes for milk stout on the Internet, but as my searches have shown, most of them are just bullshit. At best, you will end up with a simple stout or even a brown ale.

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March 23rd, 2018 | admin

American brown ale. Recipe

Today we will touch on the American classic of brewing, namely the American Brown Ale.

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March 19th, 2018 | admin

Bread mead

The recipe for this mead may seem strange to someone, but I am sure that connoisseurs of the traditional taste of mead with hints of bread in the aroma will also be found.

So, I present to your attention a recipe for bread mead. »

March 1st, 2018 | admin

Intoxicating mead

Another mead recipe. This time, intoxicated. I would even say that it is twice intoxicated mead. Firstly, this recipe assumes getting a strong mead, and secondly, it will be sufficiently hopped.

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March 1st, 2018 | admin

Classic mead

The classic homemade mead recipe. I can tell right away that this mead recipe is not only classic, but also basic. This means that you can create any other variations based on it. So, the mead is classic.

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March 1st, 2018 | admin

Goat dark beer recipe

To make this beer at home, we need: Malt, hops and yeast. As usual. Goat dark (black) is prepared using special malt. The original black goat recipe is available on the official website of the Czech brewery, but we will prepare a clone. So, let's start. »

March 1st, 2018 | admin

Zhigulevsky beer recipe

Homemade Zhigulevskoe beer.

Zhigulevskoe is a very popular beer in the 60-80s of the last century. Traditionally, Zhigulevskoye is bottom-fermented beer, but as an ale lover, I adapted the recipe to top-fermented yeast.

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February 21st, 2018 | admin

There is a history of brewing since ancient egypt... This popular drink is now ubiquitous, sold in large quantities in grocery stores and bars in a variety of varieties. Its quite can be cooked at homeusing only natural products and everyday equipment. As such, a simple home-brewed beer recipe can produce better results than in-house brewing.

What is it made of?

There are many beer recipes with interesting ingredients. In the traditional case, it consists of the following components:

1. Malt - barley grains, a natural filter during production.The raw material should be white, have a pleasant smell, and should not sink when immersed in water. It is ground, leaving the husk intact.
2. Hop divided into varieties. Aromatic and bitter types are used, which are combined in the preferred proportion: either the beer will be bitter or with a hoppy aroma.
3. Yeast it is preferable to choose beer halls. Ordinary ones are also suitable if the required type could not be found.
4. Spring, filtered or (worse) boiled water.
5. A little Sahara for carbonation improves the palatability and thickens the foam. Homemade beer recipes also come with honey.

All products for making beer at home are easy to purchase. The requirement for the yeast (as well as all other ingredients) is the best quality.

Interesting! The pale beer recipe uses conventional-dried malt. And in dark varieties add 10% caramel, dried in the oven with a light roast.

Home brewery equipment

All cooking recipes require only available inventory... Namely:

• a saucepan of 30 liters (preferably enameled);
• fermentation tank;
• thermometer for temperature control;
• gauze up to 5 meters;
• silicone hose to pour the drink from the sediment;
• chiller - a device for cooling wort or a bath with cold water;
• hydrometer measuring sugar content (optional);
• bottles for the finished product.

Attention! Sometimes a tap is installed at the bottom of the pan through which the liquid is drained. How to brew homemade beer is outlined below.

Classic cooking recipe

To implement the traditional method of brewing beer at home, you must first wash, dry, sterilize all the dishes. Products composition:

• water - 32 l;
• barley malt - 5 kg;
• hops - 45 g;
• brewer's yeast - 25 g;
• sugar (sand) 8 g / l.

It is possible to make beer at home according to step by step instructions:

1. 25 liters of water are poured into a saucepan, heated to 80 ° C. Ground malt is immersed in a gauze bag, covering the container with a lid. Keep the composition for 1.5 hours at a temperature of about 72 ° C, periodically turning on the fire under the pan.
2. Increase the temperature to 80 degrees and keep it for 5 minutes. After that, the bag of malt is removed, washed with 7 liters of remaining water, which is added to the wort in a large saucepan. All the sugars in the malt have now been used.
3. Boil the wort, remove the foam and add 15 g of hops. Boil for 30 minutes, then add the second hop portion - 15 grams. After boiling for another 50 minutes, pour out the last hops and boil for up to 15 minutes, then turn off.
4. The wort must be quickly cooled (within a period of no more than 30 minutes). The purity of the drink depends on it. The pot can be lowered into a bath with as cold water as possible. After that, the contents are poured into a new container through cheesecloth.
5. Brewer's yeast is diluted according to the instructions on the package and poured into the wort with stirring. The container is transferred to a dark place, where the contents ferment for a week (up to 10 days) with a water seal at a temperature of about 22 ° C.
6. After 12 hours, fermentation will become intense, lasting up to 3 days. Bubbles should come out of the water seal. As the carbon dioxide escapes, the drink will brighten. The absence of bubbles for a whole day is a sign of readiness.
7. Carbonation (saturation with carbon dioxide) improves taste, creates a dense foam. Sugar is poured into bottles (8 grams per liter) and beer is poured using a narrow hose, eliminating sediment. Leave about 2 cm near the throat (for "breathing") and seal. After this, secondary fermentation begins.
8. The bottles are stored for up to 3 weeks at t up to 23 ° C in the dark, after which they are transferred to the refrigerator.

This recipe contains a step-by-step guide on how to brew beer at home. Product you can try right away, but if you keep it cold for a month, the taste will improve thanks to excerpt... Based on this method of cooking for beginners (and not only), you can come up with other recipes.

More on the topic: Proper brewing of homemade beer - in detail about all stages

Other do-it-yourself cooking recipes

Beer is prepared at home using recipes based on a wide variety of components... It is made from grains, berries, bread or rusks, with or without yeast. The following methods will help you make homemade beer with original ingredients.

Cherry

The beer, whose recipe includes cherry fruits, has long been made in Belgium under the name scream (kriek)... It is not the only cherry beer drink, but the most traditional one. In fact 30% liquidfrom which it is prepared, is juice... The cherry beer recipe includes the following foods:

• Pilsen lager malt - 4 kg;
• Crystal malt - 0.3 kg;
• chocolate malt - 135 g;
• corn flakes -700 g;
• barley popcorn (air) -700 g;
• 20 g each of Whitbread Golding and Tettnang hops;
• Saaz hops - 10 g;
• Irish moss - 10 g;
• water - 28 l;
• ripe cherry - 4.5 kg.

The cooking steps are as follows:

1. The wort is boiled for 1.5 hours, at the beginning of the process, laying the hops of the first two varieties. And 15 minutes before the end of the boil, add the Saaz variety. Irish moss is laid 10 minutes before finishing.
2. Cooled to 22 ° C.
3. This is a yeast-free beer. It is poured into barrels, where it is stored for up to 4 months, after which the cherries are added.
4. Ripening lasts up to 8 weeks, while the strength increases.

Cherry beers can be brewed with yeast, but this is the preferred method.

We advise you to read: Features and the best brands of Belgian cherry beer

How to make rye?

Rye beer happens dark and light depending on the type of malt. The shade can be copper orange or dark red. Making light beer at home involves reduction of the share of rye malt up to 50%, replacing it with barley or wheat, and also eliminates light roasting of this ingredient.

The following is an example of a beer recipe with rye malt and honey. Ingredients:

• rye malt - 3 cups;
• honey - 2 glasses;
• hops - 100 g;
• yeast - 1.5 sticks;
• sugar - 1 tbsp. l;
• water (boiling) - 10 liters.

You need a container with the possibility of liquid flowing out at the bottom like a samovar. The stages are as follows:

1. Grind hops and malt, place in a linen bag. Mix yeast with a tablespoon of sugar and leave to come up.
2. Put honey in a saucepan, boil a samovar and pour water from it through a bag into a large container. Stir the malt.
3. When there is enough water in a saucepan with honey, you need to stir the contents, allow to cool and add yeast.
4. The yeast will go down, after which you need to pour the liquid into bottles and keep in a dark place for up to 4 days. The drink is ready.

There are many other similar methods of making grain beer.

More on the topic: Homemade beer, honey

Bread based

Bread beer is also produced, including the brewing, fermentation and maturation stages. Compound:

• malt - 400 g;
• sugar - 200 g;
• hops - 200 g;
• crackers - 800 g;
• yeast - 35 g;
• pepper - peas;
• water - 13 liters.

The homemade bread beer recipe is implemented in the following steps:

1. In a large saucepan, mix half the sugar, malt and crackers. Add pepper to the hops scalded with boiling water.
2. Dissolve yeast in 6 liters of warm water, combine them with hops and pepper, mix. Put in a dark place for a day without covering. Pour in the remaining sugar and pour in warm water, 4 liters. Cook over low heat, not boiling, for 4 hours.
3. Boil the next day, then drain the liquid. Add 3 liters of boiled water to the porridge. After an hour, drain the liquid by combining with the previous portion.
4. Boil the wort, remove the foam and filter. Fill bottles with product, close tightly, place in cool for two weeks until ready.

Vienna

A Viennese beer recipe will require the following ingredients:

• Vienna malt - 3.8 kg;
• Pilsen malt - 1 kg;
• hops "Istra" - 28 g;
• hop "Early Moscow" - 20 g;
• yeast (S-33);
• 2 oranges - zest.

Beer is prepared in the following stages:

1. Wort is made: malt is mashed and water is added. Cooking lasts 75 minutes at 65 ° C.
   First, "Istra" hops are added, and after 20 minutes - "Early Moscow".Beer is brewed for an hour, then cooled to 22 ° C.
2. Yeast is added, everything is mixed and left to ferment for up to 10 days. Temperature - from 18 to 25 degrees.
3. The composition is filtered, orange peel is added. The beer is left to mature for 2 weeks.
4. The composition is filtered. He is ready, but he can stand it for another month. The general storage period is up to six months.

Velvet

Noteworthy recipe for making velvet beer with honey and cinnamon... Compound:

• rye malt - 12 kg;
• wheat malt - 1.2 kg;
• black bread - 4.8 kg;
• yeast - 100 g;
• cinnamon - 1 g;
• molasses - 1 kg;
• honey - 200 g;
• raisins - 600 g;
• hops - 140 g;
• water.

It is prepared in the following stages:

1. Dry, grind the bread, mix with ingredients other than water. At the same time, the hops are scalded with boiling water.
2. Water is added, the mixture is brought to a state of porridge, after which it ferments for 6 hours.
3. 26 liters of boiled water is poured in. In a tightly closed form, the composition is kept warm for a day.
4. The liquid is drained, water is added, 6 liters. The container is left for another 6 hours.
5. Drain again, mix drained liquids and bottle with stopper.
6. Maturation is carried out in the cold for 12 days.

It is recommended to relate to the process of making beer at home with the utmost care... Of course, you can make a drink from a commercially available extract. But such a result, which will be obtained with the use of home technology, will not work. That is why it is recommended to learn the secrets of brewing.

The American Brewers Association has published a list of 50 popular commercial beer recipes.

“Behind every large brewery there are experienced brewers. These men and women shed blood, sweat and tears to bring their traditional and experimental beers into your glasses. But you may not know that many of these professionals come from home brewing. We reached out to American brewers (and several mead manufacturers) to compile a list of commercial recipes suitable for home brewers, ”says the recipe list page.

All published recipes are optimized for brewing 5-10 gallons of beer (18.9-37.8 liters). The list includes recipes such as Pliny the Elder by Russian River and Two Hearted Ale by Bell’s Brewery, which have been recognized as the best beers in the United States for many years in a row.