Choosing the Right Home Grain Brew Recipe
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When you start making home grain brew you need a good recipe, there a literally hundreds of recipes that you can choose from. It is important that you choose the right one because you do want your first home grain brew to be delicious. The best thing you can do is ask a experienced brewer, your own home brew supplier for instance. But when you are really one your own we can give you a few in particular that are really good..
This is one of the best home grain brew recipes by far. For it you will need:
- 5 lbs. of 2-row Canadian malted barley,
- 1 tsp. Burton salts
- 1 cup of crystal malt
- ½ oz. Goldings Hop cones
- ¾ oz. Goldings Hop Pellets
- 2 packets of dry ale yeast.
- ¾ lbs. sugar
All that is required in the making of this home grain brew recipe is to use a step mash, and then sparge and add the Burton salts to the wort. This mixture needs to be brought to a boil and then the bittering hops must be added. This mixture should be boiled for about an hour, after which the flavoring hops, then boil for another ten minutes or so. To finish off simply add the sugar, boil for about five more minutes, turn off the heart, and force cool using a wort chiller. After this the yeast should be rehydrated and added to the aerated wort. Ferment as usual. So, here you have one real simple home grain brew recipe, that you can try out.
New Year Bitter
Another great and delicious home grain brew recipe is called New Year Bitter. There are a few different ingredients required here:
- 4 lbs. Canadian 2-row malted barley
- 1 ¾ lbs. British Pale malted barley
- ¼ cup chocolate malt
- ½ cup golden yellow sugar
- 2 cups crystal malt
- 1 tsp. Burton salts
- ½ oz. Cascade Pellets
- ¼ oz. Williamette Pellets
- ¼ oz. Hallertau Pellets
- 2 packets of ale yeast.
This home grain brew recipe is incredibly simple to prepare. Infusion mash for an hour, sparge and add Burtons salts and yellow sugar, boil for an hour, adding hops at intervals, and then force cool using the wort chiller. Ferment as usual.
When you get some more experience you can even make your own recipes, you just need to keep in mind that there are some basic ingredients you will always need to use. To get some ideas you can look at some other home grain brew recipes.
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