smata67 said:
I've ordered several of the Shoultz-Meyer Brewery recipes at BMW, these are BMW's "house" recipes and are pretty reliable. In fact, the best beer I've brewed to date (and I have done Ed Wort's and O'Rourke's Quaffable in the HBT recipe database, you should brew those soon) is an S-M recipe, the Belgian Double Trouble Partial Mash, though you may want to start with all extract brews for your first couple. You can also create your own "kits" by entering recipes into BMW's "Brew Builder". What you will get in the mail is no different than a pre-made kit from any other supplier. You can get recipes from The Joy of Brewing book (Papazian), which you should have purchased before your first brew, lots of other recipe sources on-line and in books from the library.
BMW's Belgian Double Trouble
http://www.brewmasterswarehouse.com/recipe/1f763998/shoultzmeyer-brewery-double-trouble
Helpful, but I STRONGLY disagree that he (or anyone) should purchase l Papazian's book. It has become seriously outdated. The one book every new brewer (and even
experienced brewers) should *definitely* buy is John Palmer's "How to Brew". Some people cheap out on paying the $10 (absolutely silly in this hobby) because they figure it's available on his website for free, but in addition to the value and usefulness of having a FULLY COMPLETE copy on paper, the website is also a bit outdated as it only has the first edition of the book, while there have been not one but TWO updates to the book since, and even the third edition has been out for quite a while now.
Homebrewing has evolved quite rapidly over the past couple decades, and continues to do so at an astonishing pace - it's important to use the most up-to-date resources available (with HBT discourse actually even being the absolute cutting edge of homebrewing in certain instances).
And in addition to "How to Brew" currently being the general resource book that every homebrewer ought to own, one other book also setsgt5t itself apart as being a top-notch resource that EVERY homebrewer ought to have in their library - Jamil Zainasheff's "Brewing Classic Styles" (which., coincidentally John Palmer also contributed a section to). And it sounds like it's exactly what the OP needs, as it contains proven recipes for every single style of beer described in the BJCP style guidelines - and by proven, I mean both in terms of quality (ie, enjoyable) AND authenticity (ie, to style), so that he can feel confident that the recipes aren't just a bunch of ingredients senselessly thrown together and then posted, as is inevitably the case with so many online recipes.
And even for brewers like myself who ALWAYS design their own recipes (or at the very minimum tweak existing recipes to suit my own personal tastes), the recipes themselves are still a valuable resource - I've referred to them countless times when researching various styles that I plan on brewing.
just 1 little problem for a rookie like me, is there anywhere to get the instructions for making these delicious beers? thanks again for the great stuff and speedy delivery.
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