Head Brewer: Gary Foster
Buen Perro Brewing
An American pale ale recipe originally from Mark Garwatoski. Uses all late addition hops (yes, I know there's no 60 minute hop addition... trust the recipe).
Every now and then even a blind squirrel finds a nut. I was looking for a new recipe to put on top of a 2nd generation Pacman yeast cake. I didn't have a good American Amber yet, so I threw this one together as my strike water was heating. There's a nice malt backbone to this with some really interesting contrasts from the cascade and liberty hops. Oh, I also wanted to get rid of all the extra cascade I had on hand, heh.
I'm still tweaking this, and once I've got it dialed in I'll post the promash .rec file along with this. In the interim, be aware that the recipe linked above calls for California Ale yeast (WLP001) but I used pacman. If you can't find pacman, try the WLP001 but ferment it at the bottom of the range.
My venerable cinnamon honey ale, one of the first recipes I ever created as an extract brewer and therefore one of the first recipes I converted to all grain. The cinnamon is delicate and easily overpowered by too much hops so tread lightly if you tweak this recipe.
Cream ales are similar to a CAP (Classic American Pilsner). They are light bodied, crisp and clean with a slight sweetness imparted by flaked maize. This cream ale uses a french hop for flavor and aroma that has a very faint ephemeral apricot note. It's a big hit among non beer snobs and people who don't have much experience with more "sophisticated" beers. It's also an incredibly refreshing summertime beer. Just be careful because with the low mash temperature and the high percentage of flaked maize this beer finishes very low and dry and can come in surprisingly high in ABV (my last batch was near 7%).
A 60 shilling Scottish light ale that has done me well. I originally stole the recipe from Jamil Zainasheff. This is an extremely light "lawnmower" style of beer with a low alcohol content (just shy of 3%) that is a great thirst quencher. Be doubly anal about sanitation on this one, the slightest flaw will show up quickly.
I've gotten 2 gold medals, 2 silver and a bronze so far from this recipe and it qualified me for the MCAB in 2006. I took a silver in the MCAB that same year with a slightly tweaked version of this recipe.
