Where appropriate I will try to include notes about a particular recipe and/or a list of awards I may have won for said recipe. This is not to brag about what a great brewer I am, but is an attempt to help you determine which of my recipes might be worth brewing yourself and which might turn out like fermented goat urine.
Remember, however, that having a tried and true recipe is only a small portion of brewing good beer. Good homebrew beer is 10% recipe and 90% process. I encourage you to perfect your process to the point where you can do it in your sleep. If you have to pick one thing to be overly anal about, work on your sanitation. If you can't brew cleanly, you won't be brewing the best beer you can produce (and quite often it will be just the opposite).
I'll gladly share my recipes. However, it's up to *you* to make the beer. If your beer turns out to be fantastic, it's not my recipe that did it... it's your skills as a brewer. I wish you luck and may the beer gods always bless you with fast starts, clean ferments and healthy happy yeast.
Recipe Assumptions:
The following parameters should be assumed for any and all of my recipes:
- Batch
Size:
6.5 gallons post-boil (on my system this results in 5.5
gal to the fermenter)
- Efficiency:
70% (mash efficiency)
- IBU
Calculations: Tinseth (full boils
are assumed)
- Color
Calculations: SRM