homebrewer_99 said:
Budweiser Clone by Karl Glarner Jr.
Ingredients:
2.5 lbs. extra light dry malt extract
1.5 lbs. light honey
1 oz. Cascade hops (6% alpha acid): 0.25 oz. for 60 min., 0.25 oz. for 30 min., 0.5 oz. for steeping
1 tsp. Irish moss for 15 min.
1 tsp. gypsum
Wyeast 1056 (American ale) or Yeast Lab Canadian ale (AO7)
3/4 cup corn sugar for priming
I have been brewing this one for years, but it is not even close to being a Bud clone. For one reason Bud uses only 6 row barley, rice, and cluster hops. The cascade hops have a better flavor and aroma than anything AB produces. I have used Hallertau, Tettnager, Cascade, Liberty, and Willamett hops. I have also subsituted Wheat extract for the EL DME, this made it a dead ringer for Micky Finn's Wheat from Libertyville, IL by the way. I have used various yeast strains as well, including Irish, Kolsch, East Coast, Coopers Dry, and San Fransisco Lager. Also a 3.3 pound can/bag of LME is roughly the same as 2.5 pounds of dry. I have never actually taken a hydrometer reading in 14 years of brewing, but I do know this is soooooo light that it is almost not there at all. I now brew it with 4 lbs of LME, 1.5 lbs honey and use a higher alpha hop for the first addition, usually Nothern Brewer. And for the record, although I bash AB now, I used to drink busch and bud like it was my JOB.
I know the original post is old now, but another easy drinking yellow beer is a Kolsch recipe I use:
1 1/2 lbs. Wheat extract
5 1/2 lbs. Pale extract
1 oz Hallertau for 60 minutes
1 oz Hallertau for 1 minute
White Labs Kolsch yeast.
Ferment of a week or so. Rack to the secondary and drop the temp to about 45 and hold of a couple of weeks. Prime with a cup of DME and bottle or Keg and force at 18 PSI.