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Recipe of Simplest Beer to be Brewed
I have not tried brewing yet, and I am really interested to brew beer with my own. Can you give me some ideas and recipes of a "Simplest Beer to be Brewed" for a beginner like me? I'm glad to try your suggested recipes.
A lot of home brew stores will have ingredient kits - I would recommend doing this. Northern Brewer has a lot of good kits which are very detailed in their instructions...you can also get a good starter kit from them.
All right, here is the easiest and by far one of the best tasting beers I have made.
12 lbs. Dingemans Belg. 2-row pils
.5 lbs belg. aromatic
1.5 lbs Belg. Candi Sugar
or
1.5 lbs Table Sugar (Sucrose)
(if you want to give you beer a more well rounded sweetness you can invert you sucrose, I will talk about that in a different post)
1 oz. Styrian Golding (60 min)
1 oz. Styrian Golding (15 min)
.5 oz Saaz (15 min)
.5 oz Saaz (3 min)
White Labs (duvel strain "WLP 530" I believe)
For the recipe I listed above which is a Belgian Style Golden Ale I use Table sugar but I invert it to break the table sugar (Sucrose) into Fructose and Glucose which will give the beer a more well rounded sweetness. This is a simple procedure. All I do is put my sugar into small sterile saucepan with just enough water to get the sugar to a liquid. I think you use about 1/2 the amount of water in weight. Then just squeeze a half lemon into the sugar and bring to light boil for about 10-15 minutes. You can use citric acid or tartaric acid as well.
If you're just starting out, I'd recommend an extract kit amber ale. Pretty easy to brew, not an overwhelming amount of equipment and one of the best beers to use to learn.
Check on Northern Brewer's site. There are plenty of extract kits you can get, which would be the easiest way to go. Save the all grain till you have had a few extract batches under your belt.
Thank you so much for your opinions. And Brian I will try to brew your suggested recipe this weekend. I am now jotting down the ingredients. But I can't assure if the market have this available. I am only staying in a small province in the Philippines. But I do try. I really got interested for brewing. Because in my family almost all of us drink beer.
I guess I didn't realize that this will be your first beer. The recipe I listed above is for All Grain. You could probably substitute the 12 lbs of grain for like 7-9 lbs of really light malt extract. That will give you good strong golden ale. Are you looking to do an extract brew or are you going to dive right in to All Grain. If you are going to do All Grain than that recipe is a great one for someone who is just starting out. I think that recipe is the best tasting beer I have mad to date and it is so simple.
Yeah aima, you might want to check around and see if anyone else brews in your area and can set you up with equipment or ingredients. Brian's recipe isn't going to work unless you've got all the right pieces and parts.
Here ya go.
http://store.brewhut.com/index.asp?Page … ProdID=111
I'm very new to homebrewing and I feel your pain.lol
These kits are simple and make a fair brew, for the first batch,keep it simple.
Something easy that will produce a good tasting brew.
If you are able, and have a friend that brews, talk them into helping you to brew a
batch before you go and spend any money on equipment, you may not even like homebrewing.
Good luck.
Marv.
cmanley542 wrote:
Yeah aima, you might want to check around and see if anyone else brews in your area and can set you up with equipment or ingredients. Brian's recipe isn't going to work unless you've got all the right pieces and parts.
Very true, I must not have been paying much attention when you wrote that you haven't brewed any beer as of yet. Definately go with an extract brew first to get your feet wet.
It would be interesting to see what he came up with if he just went to the store bought some ingredients and baked it like a cake.
Cmanley542 that would be the most weird thing I've done in my entire life, baking instead of brewing.lolz. Anyway, still I am trying hard to experienced brewing with my own. I just wait for my friend to came home to assist me and guide me in doing this.
Good call, I'm sure your friend can help you get something going.
Well man... I could give you some ideas, but you forgot to mention one important thing. What kind of beer do you like? Seems kind of stupid to give you an recipe for amber ale if you don't like it.
Every recipe I make is all grain, which for the beginner, is WAY too advanced.
Like the others have said, you really should start off with a kit.
But you first need to know what kind of beer you want to make, until then, nothing more I can say.
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