Can you comment on any Palmer/Papazian recipes?

[Soulive]

I recently realized I never brewed any of the recipes in How To Brew or The Joy of Homebrewing. Has anyone brewed any of them and if so, which are recommended?

 

[the_bird]

Good Life Pale Ale was my first PM/mostly-AG batch. Came out real well. Pretty clean and simple.

 

[Beerthoven]

I brewed the Lady Liberty APA in How to Brew (3rd edition). It was really good and I'd like to brew it again someday. I think it was my first AG brew.

 

[zoebisch01]

I loosely based my first batch of Amber American Ale off of Palmer's Cincinnati Pale Ale. It turned out very good and I later converted it to AG, I am not sure of the rest but they appear to be very straight forward, true to style recipes. It doesn't look to me like any of them would be 'bad'.

 

[Soulive]

So all the Pale Ales came out good. Has anyone brewed the other style recipes they cover?

 

[andypantz13]

All from The Joy of Homebrewing and all extract with steeping grains

Who's in the Garden Grand Cru

I like this one a lot... Belgian Wit beer. Made me think of a better version of Hoegaarden.

Elbro Nerkte Brown Ale

My first beer(book said it could be ready in two weeks) things went well until I had to add my top off water, which I added way too much of, ended up with like 6.25 gallons. Beer came out a little thin to me, but after about 4 months the whole thing seemed to meld together and became very light and drinkable.

Vagabond Gingered Ale

My third beer, and still one of my favorites. Although the first one I tried, the ginger was like a kick in the face and I was worried. A week or so later it had calmed down and was delicious. I definitely would like to make this or something similar again... if I ever get around to rebrewing a recipe that is.

So, all in all the came out pretty well, especially when I was just starting and didn't have much of an idea what I was doing.

 

[Yooper]

I brewed the Denkenfreudenburgerbrau-Oktoberfest All-grain version in How to Brew. The only change I made was subbing hallertauer hersbrucker hops for the liberty, and adjusting the grain bill a little for my efficiency.
It was really good!

 

[homebrewer_99]

From Papa Z's I brewed the Propensity Honey Lager...it was terrible...way too sweet for me...and this coming from a Hefe Weizen drinker...

I won't brew beer with honey ever again...

 

[Soulive]

From Papa Z's I brewed the Propensity Honey Lager...it was terrible...way too sweet for me...and this coming from a Hefe Weizen drinker...

I won't brew beer with honey ever again...

At what point was the honey added?

 

[homebrewer_99]

At what point was the honey added?

In the boil. The last one was drunk by a friend (it was 7 months old by then) who said he liked it, but it's not for me...

 

[Soulive]

In the boil. The last one was drunk by a friend (it was 7 months old by then) who said he liked it, but it's not for me...

But isn't honey like 99.9% fermentable? What could've made it so sweet?

 

[ColoradoXJ13]

Brewed Jamil's Pale Ale, it is fantastic, also brewed the Dunkelweizen, got a bit of a stuck ferment right now though, working on it.

 

[kaptain_karma]

I've made a couple recipes based on ones in Papazian's book.

I made the A-maize-ing Pale ale, substituting flaked maize for the corn starch, and icreasing the grain bill and hops to IPA specs. It turned out pretty tasty. The flaked maize gave it a nice dry finish.

Also, I based the recipe for my California Common on his "The Sun Has Left Us on Time " steam beer. I made it all grain, and added two ounces of carafa to give it a deep orange color. This was one the best beers I've ever made; I'm definitely going to brew a couple more batchesof it this year.

 

[homebrewer_99]

But isn't honey like 99.9% fermentable? What could've made it so sweet?

I know, I've made a lot of meads..., but this was something different that I really didn't care for. Live and learn...

 

[Krazy Bazturd]

I'll be brewing the AG Port O' Palmer (How To Brew pg. 223-224) on Friday and will report back on it in a few weeks once I've sampled it.

 

[jmiracle]

I just made Bruce & Kays Dark Honey Lager (which isn't a lager) from Papazian's book except minus the spruce and with slightly different hops, it turned out good but it's a bit schizo, probably because I just used Cascade and Fuggles because that was what I had around, I didn't try to match IBUs or anything.

 

[david_42]

I made Port O' Palmer a few years ago. A bit drier than I like for a porter. I ended up adding 4 ounces of lactose.