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Recipes for Making Your Own Homebrew Beer
By William Swan

Homemade or home-brewed beer can be a rewarding experience with the right tools and the right recipe. A search of the Internet will bring up everything from recipes for Moose Milk Stout to Lawnmower Special. Here is a collection of homebrew beers from around the world.

MOOSE MILK STOUT: This beer recipe is from the Easy Homebrew site.

Ingredients:

• 6 lb Munton Fison DME
• 1/4 lb Black Patent malt
• 1/2 lb Roasted Barley
• 1/4 lb British Chocolate malt
• 1/2 lb British crystal malt 60¡ L
• 1/2 lb Lactose
• 1 oz Challenger hops
• 5 oz priming sugar
• 1084 Irish Ale yeast

Preparation method:

• Steep specialty grains for 20 minutes in 2-3 gallons of water.
• Remove grains and bring to boil.
• Add DME, lactose and hops. Stir well.
• Boil 60 minutes.
• After 60 min. boil, chill wort to 70¡ and pitch yeast.
• Ferment 5 days in primary.
• Rack to secondary for another 5 days.
• Prime and bottle.
• Store at room temperature for 14 days.
• Serve at 55º

NOTTING HILL PUB BITTER: Here's an English Bitter, found on the Beer Smith site.

General Information:

• Type: Extract
• Batch Size: 5.00 gal
• Boil Size: 3.50 gal Asst Brewer:
• Boil Time: 60 min
• Equipment: CCHBS partial boil instructions
• Taste Rating (out of 50): 35.0

Ingredients:

• 1 lbs Extra Light Dry Extract (3.0 SRM)
• 3 lbs Pale Liquid Extract (8.0 SRM)
• 8.0 oz British Crystal 77L (77.0 SRM)
• 4.0 oz Caramel/Crystal Malt -120L (120.0 SRM)
• 1.00 oz Challenger [8.00%] (60 min)
• 0.70 oz Goldings, East Kent [5.00%] (10 min) (Aroma Hop-Steep)
• 1 Package London Ale (W yeast Labs #1028)

Notes (Carbonation):

• Carbonation Type: Corn Sugar
• Volumes of CO2: 1.8
• Pressure/Weight: 2.2 oz
• Keg/Bottling Temperature: 60.0 F
• Age for: 28.0 days
• Storage Temperature: 52.0 F

LAWNMOWER SPECIAL: Here's a homemade light American lager from the prolific BeerSmith site.

General Information:

• Type: All Grain
• Batch Size: 5.28 gal
• Boil Size: 6.05 gal Asst Brewer:
• Boil Time: 60 min
• Taste Rating (out of 50): 35.0

Ingredients:

• 5.29 lb Lager Malt (2.0 SRM)
• 1.72 lb Corn, Flaked (1.3 SRM)
• 0.49 oz Crystal [3.10%] (60 min)
• 0.49 oz Crystal [3.10%] (20 min)
• 0.49 oz Crystal [3.10%] (10 min)
• 0.25 tsp Irish Moss (Boil 10.0 min)
• 1 Package Pilsner Urqell (Wyeast Labs #2001) [Starter 125 ml] [Cultured]

Notes (Mash & Carbonation):

• Mash Name: Single Infusion, Light Body, No Mash Out Total Grain Weight: 7.01 lb
• Sparge Water: 4.70 gal
• Grain Temperature: 72.0 F
• Sparge Temperature: 168.0 F
• Tun Temperature: 72.0 F
• Adjust Temp for Equipment: FALSE
• Mash PH: 5.4 PH
• Mash In Add 8.76 qt of water at 161.5 F 150.1 F 110 min

Mash Notes: Simple single infusion mash for use with most modern well modified grains (about 95% of the time).

• Carbonation Type: Corn Sugar
• Volumes of CO2: 2.4
• Pressure/Weight: 4.0 oz
• Keg/Bottling Temperature: 60.1 F
• Age for: 28.0 days

TSING-TAO: Here's a homemade "clone" beer recipe replicating a Chinese lager: Tsing Tao. For an extensive list of clone beers, check the AngelFire site.

Yield: 5 gallons

Ingredients:

• 6 3/4 lb. American 6 row
• 1lb. Rice Hulls
• 1 1/2 Lb. Rice
• 1/2 Lb. Crystal 10L
• 1 Lb. Rice syrup
• 1/3 oz. (9 grams)Tettnanger
• 3/4 oz. (21 grams) Saaz
• 1/4 oz. Saaz
• 1 tsp. Irish Moss
• Wyeast Pilsen Lager yeast
• 3/4 cup Corn Sugar

Instructions: Grind rice and cook until soft (about 20 minutes). Mash all grains together including the hulls and rice cook for 30 minutes at 122F. Raise heat to 150F for 60 minutes. Sparge and accumulate 1 1/5 gallons of wort. Bring to a boil and remove from heat. Add the rice syrup, Tettnanger and 1/5 oz. of Saaz. Add water to make 2 1/2 gallons. Boil for 50 minutes. Add the rest of the Saaz and the Irish Moss. Boil for ten more minutes. Cool. Add water to make 5 gallons. Add yeast.

Notes:

• Primary 7 days
• Secondary: 1 week
• O.G.- 1.048
• F.G.- 1.010
• Alcohol - 4 1/2%

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