klowneyy
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I am very new to brewing I have made a few hard ciders. I am wanting to try a beer now. Does anyone have a good easy recipe for a beginner?
Thread really tasty beer simple recipe and fast turn around
DerekJ said:That's kind of a tall order but I will try to help. Let's start with a few questions.
1. What type of equipment do you have? Are you looking for an extract recipe, partial mash, all grain?
2. What style of beer would you like to brew? IPA, Amber ale, Stout, etc.
As a general rule most kits from places like More Beer, Austins, and Northern Brewer are pretty easy and proven recipes. The directions that come with these kits leave a lot to be desired.
klowneyy said:I have a 5 gal brew kettle, 2 5 gal carboys 2 1 gal carboys, hydrometer and everything you need to rack and bottle
I have a 5 gal brew kettle, 2 5 gal carboys 2 1 gal carboys, hydrometer and everything you need to rack and bottle
DerekJ said:Ok...it sounds like you have a pretty good start with equipment.
I see two options from here that don't involve buying extra equipment.
1. Extract - We can get you set up with a recipe that utilizes dry or liquid extract. Some of these will use steeping grains and some don't. The extract is just a concentrate that has resulted from a company mashing grain for you. It is the easiest form of brewing but has a couple draw backs. It is difficult to make a light colored beer and many people say that extract beers have a "twang" taste.
2. BIAB - BIAB stands for Brew in a Bag. It is all grain brewing without a mashtun. You use your brew kettle to perform the mash. All you would need to do is go to your local hardware store and pick up a paint strainer bag like this.
Which way would you like to go?
Also, do you have a particular style of beer you would like to make?
hehawbrew said:I'm a noob with just a few gallon beer brews under my belt ( which are now in my gut). My LHBS has recipes at their store and they are nice enough to help scale down the recip3 from 5 gallons down to one. I started with one gallons and am now doing two gallon batches. The wife has seen the fruits of home brewing and is going to let me scale up to 5 gallons in may!
Listen to these guys tho! This forum is more valuable than any brew kit and most youtube videos!
DerekJ said:That's kind of a tall order but I will try to help. Let's start with a few questions.
1. What type of equipment do you have? Are you looking for an extract recipe, partial mash, all grain?
2. What style of beer would you like to brew? IPA, Amber ale, Stout, etc.
As a general rule most kits from places like More Beer, Austins, and Northern Brewer are pretty easy and proven recipes. The directions that come with these kits leave a lot to be desired.
Ok I just picked up a 5 gal paint strainer and a digital temperature gage
DerekJ said:That sounds great. Are you going to make the Dry Irish Stout from Northern Brewer or did you decide on a different recipe?
I have been playing around with beersmith and I am just going to try and make my own just using 1 lb of black barley grain and 1 lb of chocolate malt grain and use wlp300 yeast
I have been playing around with beersmith and I am just going to try and make my own just using 1 lb of black barley grain and 1 lb of chocolate malt grain and use wlp300 yeast
latium said:Are you planning to use any base malt? You're not going to get many--make that any--fermentables out of that. Neither of those grains has any diastatic power, which means that they will not be able to convert their starches into sugars. I'm at work right now and don't have access to my copy of Beersmith, but if it's telling you you'll get alcohol with just those ingredients, that's because it simply uses a certain percentage of apparent attenuation to calculate FG (and therefore alcohol).
Also, I would strongly suggest scaling *way* back on the black barley, to about 1-2 ounces for a five-gallon batch. I haven't tried using large quantities of it myself, but everything I've read indicates that much more than a few ounces (in a standard batch) will impart acrid and unpleasantly bitter flavors to the finished product.
I hope this doesn't come across the wrong way, but you may be interested in Designing Great Beers by Ray Daniels.
I have been playing around with beersmith and I am just going to try and make my own just using 1 lb of black barley grain and 1 lb of chocolate malt grain and use wlp300 yeast
No not at all I am on here for feedback and to learn. Thank you for your input and I was going to use about 1 lb of sugar as well.
chickypad said:Okay, I wouldn't do either of these. That's a German hefeweizen yeast - banana and clove, probably not what you want in your stout. Sugar will thin the beer out, also not something I would use in a stout. I agree with others on finding a tried recipe to follow, either the one Derek posted or there are lots in the recipe database on here.
Since you're starting with all grain make sure you read up and understand the mash process. You're not going to have any extract to fall back on so you need to do that correctly to get a fermentable wort. As was mentioned, software isn't always sophisticated enough to alert you to all the potential problems with recipe design.
martiniw2olives said:Okay so you want to get serious. This is not a stout , but an amazing robust porter that I get tons of compliments for.
Grain Bill:
10 lbs. Two row
1 lbs. Caramel/Crystal Malt
8 Oz. Brown Malt
4 Oz. Briess Roasted Barley
Hop Schedule:
1 Oz. Chinook, Full 60 minute boil
Yeast:
one package Safale US-05
Mash Temp 153
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