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This recipe was obtained from a book at a friend’s house several years ago. I start a gallon of this each month so I never run out. It’s that good.”
- 1 large can (1 lb. 3 oz.) grapefruit sections in syrup
- 1 pint of pure […]

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6 lb blackberries
2-1/2 lb granulated sugar
1/2 tsp pectic enzyme
7 pts water
wine yeast and nutrient

Wash berries thoroughly in colander, then crush in bowl, trasnfer to primary fermentation vessel, and pour 7 pts. boiling water over must. Allow to steep for two days, then strain through nylon sieve onto the sugar. Stir well to dissolve sugar, add […]

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Description:
I was in the mood for a hop-head beer so I made an I.P.A.I wasn’t too fond of any that I tried except for Victories Hop Devil And this is what turned me on to I.P.A.’s.If you have never tried Hop Devil and have access to it try one.
Size:

2 1/2 gallon

Ingredients:
 

4 1/2lbs. american 2 row
1/8 […]

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Fat Tire Amber Ale (5 gallons, extract with grains)
by Dawnell Smith
Ingredients:
 
5 lbs. Laaglander plain extra-light DME
0.50 lb. crystal malt (20? Lovibond)
0.50 lb. crystal malt (40? Lovibond)
0.50 lb. carapils malt
0.50 lb. Munich malt
0.50 lb. biscuit malt
0.50 lb. chocolate malt
3 AAUs Willamette pellet hops (0.66 oz. at 4.5% alpha acid)
1.33 AAUs Fuggle pellet hops (0.33 oz. at […]

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Ingredients:
8–1/2 pounds 2–row pilsner malt
1/2 pound crystal malt (20 L.)
1/2 pound cara-pils malt
Procedure:
Each recipe assumes 75% extract efficiency. Use the best German or Belgian pilsner malt you can find, rather than U.S. 2-row or U.S. 6-row malt. Likewise, use German or Belgian Munich malt if you can find it. In the recipes, the crystal malt […]

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Description:
This is the classic recipe from Redhook brewing company in Seattles Safeco Field.
Size:
5 gallon
Ingredients:
10.5 lbs. British 2-row
12 oz. Crystal 60
4 oz. Victory
2 oz. Willamette (60 min)
1/2 oz. Willamette (15 min)
1 oz. Tettnanger whole leaf (2 min)
1/2 tsp irish moss
Britsh Ale Yeast
1 1/4 cup Xtra Light DME for bottling
1/4 tsp. polyclar
Brewing Instructions:
Mash all grains at 155f […]

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Notes from the author, Charlie Gow
Here’s a recipe that comes fairly close. Red Hook ESB is the reason I took up homebrewing. Can’t find it here in the beer wasteland, so I had to try to brew something close. Anyway…
The only tricky thing is getting the appropriate yeast. While Paul Shipman is fairly reticent about […]

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Adapted from “In Search of the Great Pumpkin” by John Naleszkiewicz, November 1995, p. 32
(5 gallons/19 L, extract with grains and pumpkin) OG = 1.048 FG = 1.012 IBU = 19 SRM = 6 ABV = 4.6%
By modern standards, a pumpkin ale would hardly be considered that wild. But, it was the wildest recipe of […]

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Description:
I tried a Sam Adams Cherry Wheat and really enjoyed it and said to myself,self I think I would like to try and make a Cherry Wheat.So I did. I don’t know the results yet but what I’ve tasted when I racked this into the secondary it was good.It had just a hint of cherry […]

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This recipe is by Bob on the Brewer’s Roundtable Forums.
Ingredients
.50lbs Cara-Pils Dextrine Malt
.50lbs Crystal 10L
5.5lbs Briess DME Bavarian Wheat America
Hops

.75 oz. Mt. Hood 60min
.25 oz Mt. Hood 15min
Yeast

White Labs WLP051 California Ale V
Procedure
Steep the Cara-Pils, and Crystal Malt for 25 min. in 2 gal. of 160 degree water. DO NOT BOIL!!! Top off to 3 […]

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