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Suggestions for next brew?
I'm hoping to bottle my first brew this weekend, and am already planning another batch. This first one was a pale ale kit using DME and grain. I'd like to do another
I'm game for just about any recipe that would be good for a beginner, yet something different than a pale ale. When I bought my equipment & kit, the guy at the HBS invited me to watch him prepare several customer orders and gave me a quick primer on the different kinds of malted grains. I don't mind the idea of purchasing another kit, but after looking at the contents of the kit I started with, it doesn't look much different than what the fellow at the shop was putting together from recipes brought in by customers.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
Why not get involved in the community brew? You can find it here: 1st Community Brew
I bottled my first brew over a week ago and, like you, was thinking about my next batch the whole way. I decided to go with a partial grain holiday seasonal ale.
7 lbs of John Bull Light malt extract
1 lbs 60L Crystal
1/8 lbs black malt
2 oz of Cascade hops
1/2 oz of Saaz
1 oz of cinnamon stick
1 oz of sweet orange peel
1 oz of fresh ginger
1 tsp of Irish Moss
This is about what the recipe was that I made. I used a White Labs wet yeast that my HBS reccommended (#51). The brew is a darker ale and when I get up close and sniff the airlock, it smells like oranges and cinnamon!
If you are interested in the entire (and more accurate) recipe, let me know and I will dig it up for you.
The community brew sounds wonderful, and I have already bookmarked it. However, BrewRob's seasonal ale sounds like a perfect complement to the holiday cookie baking I'm doing now! I would greatly appreciate the full recipe!
I'm getting ready to bottle my own winter ales very similar to brewbobs however I also did a stout with a very similar recipe as well. Hoping for winter black and tans with that wonderful winter spice flavor. First attempt but expect fairly good results after sampling it.
Here is the recipe in it's entirety:
1 lb of Crystal 60L
1/8 lb of black malt
7 lbs of John Bull Light malt extract
1lb of wildflower honey
2 oz of Cascade hops pellets
1/2 tsp of Irish moss
1 oz of cinnamon stick
1 oz of sweet orange peel
1 oz of ginger
1/2 oz os Saaz hops pellets
for yeast: if you prefer dry yeast use Danstar Nottingham. if you prefer wet yeast, use Wyeast 1272 or Whitelabs WLP051
Directions: add 2 gallons of cold water to brewpot and add malt in a brew bag. Steep grains in cold water and when water starts to boil, turn off heat and remove grains.
-Stir in malt extract and honey until fully disolved. Turn heat back on.
Boil all of this for one hour total
-Bring back to boil and add cascade hops for full 60 minutes
-Add 1/2 tsp of Irish Moss for the last 15-20 mins of boil
-Add cinnamon, orange peel, ginger in last 10 minutes of boil
-Add Saaz pellets last 2 minutes of boil
turn off heat and let cool to 78F or below
Add 2 gallons of room temp. water to your fermenter
Once wort is cooled to proper temp. strain the wort into the fermenter
Add yeast and give fermenter a good swirl to oxygenate
Top off fermenter to 5 gallons and take a gravity reading
Attach blow off or airlock to fermenter and let ferment for at 10-14 days
Once fermentation is done, add 3/4 cup of priming sugar to 1 pint of boiling water. Dissolve and then add to bottling bucket
Transfer beer from fermenter to bottling bucket, bottle, and age for 2 weeks.
Drink up!
I followed this recipe exactly, but if you have any questions about what I did, feel free to get in touch.
Thanks a million! Providing I can bottle this weekend (thus freeing up the fermenter) I am planning a trip to the LHBS.
MariaAZ you should join us with our community brew!! here is the link to the recipe.
http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/commun … t-973.html
is this an hopped pale malt?
I think the John Bull extracts are prepped.
I would think it is, all your adding is the finishing hopes.
the community brew is cool. put give people enough time to get
a couple brews under their belt.
Save the community brew recipes to docs or something, brew it when you feel comfortable with it.
Brew what you want to.
That's one of things that's so cool about home brewing, it's your beer, you brew what you want.
With kits and easy recipes, your learning to brew.
Make the big mistakes now, ( while it's cheap) and learn from the big ones and the small ones.
Before you go spending good money on a brew.
And have fun brewing
Marv,
John Bull makes two different kinds of malt extracts, one is prepped with hops and one isn't. Maria, you should use the can without hops added, if you can.
Good call, Marv and thanks for the clarification
BrewLuva wrote:
MariaAZ you should join us with our community brew!! here is the link to the recipe.
http://www.brewingkb.com/recipes/commun … t-973.html
That's a great link MariaAZ. You should try it!
I gave hubby the choice of the holiday ale, the community milk stout and the "intermediate brewing" section of Papazian's book, and he settled on the Goat Scrotum Ale in Papazian's book. I figured he's being a good sport about all the brewing equipment, ingredients and books I have scattered around so I'd brew something for him. Here's the recipe I followed:
6 lb plain dark malt extract
1 lb crystal malt 80L
.25 lb black patent malt
.25 lb roasted barley
1.5 oz Challenger pellet hops for boiling
.25 oz Willamette pellet hops for finishing
1 c brown sugar
1 c molasses
4 oz fresh grated ginger
8 oz baking cocoa powder
1 tsp gypsum
1 tsp Irish moss
Nottingham dry yeast
The original recipe called for 5 lbs extract & 1 lb dextrose, but I found a version online that used all malt. I misweighed the cocoa powder and the 8 oz are two oz more than Papazian called for. I ended up with about 5.25 gal of wort, probably from the fact the 5 gal bottle of filtered water I used was filled a little too full.
I'm thinking about racking this to secondary as I'm sure the cocoa powder will make quite a mess on the bottom of the fermenter. With this in mind, does anyone think this might benefit from dry hopping? I still have some Challenger & Willamette pellets sealed in the freezer.
I actually had the Goat Scrotum at a homebrew meeting early this year. I have no idea why Charlie calls it that. Anyway, that beer was awesome! Several people tried it and loved it.
I think he will like it too.
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