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Guiness beer recipes, how to brew and how to stew

August 11th, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

Guiness beer is a very popular dry stout beer and was developed in Ireland in the Arthur Guinness brewery. Guiness beer is popular all over the world and well known because of its distinctive flavor. This flavor is created by the use of unfermented roasted barley. Guiness beer is made from water, hobs, brewers yeast, barley and barley malt. Guiness beer is pasteurized and filtered. In spite of the full and creamy flavor of the foam, Guiness beer contains only 198 kcal per pint and that is less than a pint of orange juice and skimmed milk.

Guiness beer is often used in many recipes this Guiness beer beef stew is one of those wonderful recipes you can cook for friends and family.

Guiness beer beef stew

Ingredients for 4 to 6 persons

* 1 1/4 pounds 1 inch pieces stew beef
* I cup of Guinness beer
* 6 large garlic cloves
* 1 cup of fine red wine
* 1 tablespoon sugar
* 6 cups beef stock or canned beef broth
* 1 tablespoon Worcestershire sauce
* 2 tablespoons tomato paste
* 1 tablespoon dried thyme
* 3 pounds potatoes, peeled, cut into 1/2-inch pieces (about 7 cups)
* 2 bay leaves
* 2 tablespoons (1/4 stick) butter
* 2 cups 1/2-inch pieces peeled carrots
* 1 large onion, chopped
* 2 tablespoons chopped fresh parsley
* Salt and Pepper

Take a large pot and put in on medium heat, heat the olive oil and at the beef pieces, brown them in about 5 minutes. Add and saute the garlic for a minute. Add the Guiness beer, the red wine, the beef stock, sugar, thyme, Worcestershire sauce, bay leaves and tomato paste. Slowly stir the mixture top boil. Simmer for 1 hour on a medium/low heat.

Take another large pot and melt the butter add unions, carrots and potatoes. Sauté this in about 20 minutes until golden.

After the meat has simmered for one hour at the vegetables. You can add salt and pepper to taste, keep the lid off and simmer until the beef is soft and tender (40 to 50 minutes), spoon the fat off sprinkle with the fresh chopped parsley and enjoy.

But before you can use Guiness beer to use in your Guiness beer beef stew you can do two things you can buy the Guiness beer or you can brew a Guiness beer clone yourself. So, what do you need? Well the recipes are divided about the ingredients but there is one that we found the closed to the Guiness beer you can buy:

Guiness beer clone recipe

Ingredients:

9 lbs Brit pale ale
1 lb flaked barley
18 oz roast barley
12 oz carapils
1.5 oz No. Brewer hops (60 min)
1 oz East Kent Goldings hops (60 min)

First, get the “tang” the way Guinness does: Sour about 24 oz (2 bottles) of stout (pref. Guinness) by leaving it out in a bowl a week or more & then freezing it.
While brewing, thaw the sour stout & heat it to 180-190 F for 20 min.
Mash-in at 155F, hold for 1 hour, boil 1 hour & 15 minutes.
At end boil, add the sour stout.
At 70F, pitch 2 packs of Yeast #1084.
A month or so of cold lagering (<40F) after bottling or kegging will help.
(source: www. ericsbeerpage. com/Beer/Recipe/guin.html)

We hope we have helped you in the quest for the best recipes for how to brew and how to stew Guiness Beer

Easy Home Made Beer Recipes

February 21st, 2008    Subscribe To Our Feed

For thousands of years, people have been brewing alcoholic beverages in their own homes. Beginning in ancient Sumer (often referred to as Sumeria), where the fermentation process was discovered, A 3900-year-old Sumerian poem honoring Ninkasi, the patron goddess of brewing, contains the oldest surviving home made beer recipe, describing the production of beer from barley via bread.

The practice of brewing beer and similar beverages has been passed down from person to person, country to country and culture to culture for over 11,000 years. During that time, many different types and recipes for home made beer have developed. If you’re looking to get into the art of home brewing yourself, trying out simple home made beer recipes is a good way to get your feet wet.

A Simple home made beer recipes
We assume that you have all the necessary equipment:

• a beer brewing kit
• a large pot (ideally five gallon capacity and made of stainless steel or enamel)
• a long handled stirring spoon
• and bottles for storing the beer once it’s done

Than you’ll just need to gather the ingredients for your beer. You can check your local listings for a beer brewing supply store or even get them offline. (see link page) There are several different home made beer recipes out there when it comes to beer. Each brewer may have their own secret ingredient or add some special combination of herbs or spices to give their beer a unique flavor that’s all their own.

When you’re first starting out, begin by testing some very basic home made beer recipes.
Your shopping list for most simple beginner’s home brew recipes will look something like this:

• 3.5 lbs. of malt extract
• ½ lb. of crystal malt grain
• ¼ lb. of pale malt grain
• ¼ lb. of oat grain
• 1 to 2 oz. of hops
• 1 package of brewer’s yeast
• 3/8 cup of corn sugar

To make your beer, steep the grains for 30 minutes. Once they have steeped for this long, strain them, and add them to the large brew pot along with a gallon of water and the malt extract. Allow this mixture to boil. As soon as it starts to bubble, add half of the hops and let it continue to boil for an hour. Remove the hops from the brew pot and add the rest of the hops. Let the mixture (also called wort) boil for another half an hour.
Once the mixture is done boiling, let it cool. After it has reached room temperature, strain the plant material from the wort and pour it into the large glass bottle in your beer brewing kit. Add the brewer’s yeast, and place the airlock on the bottle. After 7 to 14 days, your beer should be done fermenting and ready to bottle.

More Home Made Beer Recipes
The recipe outlined here is only one of many. If you’re looking for something a bit more advanced, look on our linkpage or search on other internet pages. You’ll find several websites and blogs dedicated to the pursuit of the perfect home made beer. Just take a few minutes to peruse the various recipes you find and pick one that appeals to you. You can choose a recipe by various factors such as colour, flavour, strength, ingredients, production method, recipe, history, or origin. There will always be home made beer recipes to your taste

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