Avery homebrew recipes

I searched the forum to see if someone else had posted about this, but didn't come up with anything (which surprised me).

A few days ago, Avery Brewing Company posted homebrew recipes for 14 of their excellent beers on their website:

http://averybrewing.com/brewery/recipes-for-homebrewers/

For those who like to clone, it doesn't get much better than that. The list has some great beers on there - Maharaja, Salvation, Czar,...

Enjoy

They have always been generous with the recipes in the past but that is beyond generous.

Yeah, they are always really open and forthcoming, but I was quite impressed with this release.

Very cool, just downloaded the page to keep a backup safe offline.

That's cool! Thank you Avery brewing!

Neat

Thanks for posting. I do think their hops quantities are off on some of the recipes (IPA .25oz bittering?), easy enough to correct though if you have beersmith or similar.

Too Cool!!!!! Thanks for posting this!

Awesome, thank you.

Not only can you make their brews, you can slap the graphics on that page into Word and print up some nice labels.

Thank you for the post, copied to notepad for future homebrews

Way to go, Avery! Succinct, homebrewer focused recipes. I shall be trying.

smata67 said:

Thanks for posting. I do think their hops quantities are off on some of the recipes (IPA .25oz bittering?), easy enough to correct though if you have beersmith or similar.

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That is a good point, I didn't look at those numbers in great detail at first, but some of those bittering additions do seem a bit low. Quickly plugging their recipe numbers for the IPA into Beer Calculus, I get about 25 IBU, whereas their website stats for the same beer puts it at 69 IBU:

http://averybrewing.com/our-ales/india-pale-ale/

Not sure what that's all about. It's probably a good idea to throw the numbers into a program to make sure you get the desired bitterness. Anyway, you can cross reference the stats listed on their individual beer descriptions to make sure you get close to the right bitterness level with (most importantly) the right hop schedule (in terms of percentages at given times), as provided by the recipe.

moti_mo said:

That is a good point, I didn't look at those numbers in great detail at first, but some of those bittering additions do seem a bit low. Quickly plugging their recipe numbers for the IPA into Beer Calculus, I get about 25 IBU, whereas their website stats for the same beer puts it at 69 IBU:

http://averybrewing.com/our-ales/india-pale-ale/

Not sure what that's all about. It's probably a good idea to throw the numbers into a program to make sure you get the desired bitterness. Anyway, you can cross reference the stats listed on their individual beer descriptions to make sure you get close to the right bitterness level with (most importantly) the right hop schedule (in terms of percentages at given times), as provided by the recipe.

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They clearly used a wrong conversion factor. Keep proportions between the different additions the same. For example, the Ellies should have .75 Bullion and 1.75 Sterling. Works out to the proper IBU. I sent them an email alerting them to fix that before someone makes a lame batch.

Has anyone knocked up some beersmith recipes for these yet with the right ratios?

So will you buy more Avery beer or less now that you can make it for a fraction of the cost ?

MisterTipsy said:

So will you buy more Avery beer or less now that you can make it for a fraction of the cost ?

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I'll continue to buy Maharajah as there's no way I'm hitting that OG with my current equipment setup

Holy Crap, Joe's pilsner has a ton of flameout hops. I love that beer.

The 60 and 30 minute CTZ additions for the Maharaja recipe should each be 1.77 oz at the same listed bitterness to hit the 102 IBU they claim using Tinseth. And yeah, that recipe outstrips the capacity of my 10 gal round cooler, so it'll be quite some time before I make that one.

Awesome! Thanks for posting this.

The aroma on their IPA is beyond amazing!

MisterTipsy said:

So will you buy more Avery beer or less now that you can make it for a fraction of the cost ?

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I will still buy it. I know my homebrew wont taste the same, so I will drink the original and the knock-off.

*edit* checking out the website, the Czar has some differences.

Beer Style: Imperial Stout
Hop Variety: Magnum, Sterling
Malt Variety: Two-row barley, Oats, Cara-45, Black malt, Belgian Chocolate malt, Midnight wheat, Honey malt
OG: 1.104 ABV: 10-12% IBUs: 55 Color: Black

Ingredients list:
OG: 1.104, AE: 1.025
Grist:
Pale 2-Row – 86.8%
Cara-8 – 1.9%
Cara-45 – 3.7%
Debittered Black Malt – 1.2%
Chocolate – 1.2%
Carafa III – 1.5%
Honey Malt – 3.7%
Hops:
60 min – Magnum (13.6% AA) – 0.94 oz
30 min – Magnum (13.4% AA) – 0.89 oz
0 min – Sterling – 0.52 oz
0 min – Hallertau– 0.52 oz

They must have scaled their big batch recipes linearly, thus the low hops amounts. The bigger the batch, the less you need to hit the IBUs, correct?

The recipe errors are all part of Avery's master plan to lower your confidence as a clone brewer.

Interns...

Was at their taproom today for lunch after a hike in Boulder. Had the Eremita IV blueberry/spruce sour, their 3Point5 Session, and the Summer's Day Tangerine IPA. All delicious.

I'm kind of amazed by the grain bill for Czar. There's no roasted barley, and only 3.9% of the bill is roasted malts. I had a bottle last winter and wasn't a big fan. It wasn't very dark for an imperial stout (you could see through it when you tilted the glass), and it wasn't particularly roasty. As I recall, it had more dark fruit flavors to it. Now, I can understand why. It's really not a typical RIS grain-bill.

As far as Maharaja goes, in the cybi interview, Adam Avery said that they used some malt extract in the grain bill to make the mash more reasonable. If I were brewing that beer, I'd use the cybi recipe; it should be easier. The hop amounts should be more accurate as well.

9oz of dry hops for maharaja!?

I think that's how much Tasty used when he brewed it; it was 8 or 9 per 5 gallons.

Thanks for the link. I love there beer, The Reverend. Gonna give it a try.

Thanks....

Nice! Thanks for the headsup. I know what I may be brewing once I start back up. It really goes to show what hops I like in alot of my favorate beers. I guess I havent even brewed with my favorate hops yet. Havent had a chance to brew with Columbus and many of my top 10-20 favorite ipa's use columbus Ive noticed.

Great post, I love their beers. I think out of bounds is one of my favorite stouts.

Interesting how so many of the recipes use Bullion and Sterling. Bullion is hard to find at the moment, I just ordered some off Ebay of all places.

Regarding the bittering...I highly doubt they would give wrong hop amounts/additions. Most commercial breweries do whirlpool additions, as does Avery (check out the CYBI maharaja episode), which would be at 0 minutes in the boil. Since the wort isn't being cooled during the whirlpool the alpha-acids are still being isomerized and are still contributing to bitterness. If it's easier for you, take their 0 additions and plug them in as 15 minutes (to adjust for the 15 minute whirlpool) and you will see the IBUs on the given IPA recipe match up closer to the stats on their website. Hope this helps.

smata67 said:

Interesting how so many of the recipes use Bullion and Sterling. Bullion is hard to find at the moment, I just ordered some off Ebay of all places.

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For those of you brewing these and looking for bullion, just saw this great deal

http://www.hopsshack.com/store/pellethops.html

skibb said:

Regarding the bittering...I highly doubt they would give wrong hop amounts/additions. Most commercial breweries do whirlpool additions, as does Avery (check out the CYBI maharaja episode), which would be at 0 minutes in the boil. Since the wort isn't being cooled during the whirlpool the alpha-acids are still being isomerized and are still contributing to bitterness. If it's easier for you, take their 0 additions and plug them in as 15 minutes (to adjust for the 15 minute whirlpool) and you will see the IBUs on the given IPA recipe match up closer to the stats on their website. Hope this helps.

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Bingo. If they have a hopback as well that adds a whole lot of IBU's.

Ok I will try this post again. Yes I am a rookie. Does the grain bill for the Avery clones assume a total weight of 16 lbs when figuring the percentages.

Buckwheat2 said:

Ok I will try this post again. Yes I am a rookie. Does the grain bill for the Avery clones assume a total weight of 16 lbs when figuring the percentages.

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No. The percentages assume no weight at all since batches of grain vary.

If 16 pounds is what you get when you combine the percentages with corrected grain data and you estimate the same OG for the recipe, then 16 pounds it is.

Got it...Thank You

GilaMinumBeer said:

No. The percentages assume no weight at all since batches of grain vary.

If 16 pounds is what you get when you combine the percentages with corrected grain data and you estimate the same OG for the recipe, then 16 pounds it is.

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It also depends on your particular efficiency. A system with an efficiency of 80% is going to require less grain than a system that only gets 65%, but the grain ratios will be the same.