Beer Recipes

It all starts with a recipe. A beer recipe is a simple thing but can make an extremelycomplex drink. The home brewing community is great because everyone is so willing to share their beer recipes with others and I’m no different. I like to look back at the beers I’ve brewed over the course of years and writing everything down in recipe form gives me a record of what I have done. To begin with I have included some things you will find helpful in either interpreting beer recipes or developing your own recipes. The second section is all the beer recipes I have documented.

Here we have a list of the recipes published here at Home Brew Answers. Over time these home brew beer recipes will be sorted by beer style and serve as a library on what has been brewed over the course of running Home Brew Answers.

Beer Recipe Adjustment and Creation

In this top section I have included some helpful articles to help you modify the beer recipes listed here or even work towards developing your own recipes. Many of the recipes published are formulated for all grain brewing, with the guides below however you should be able to convert the recipe to malt extract of scale it to yourhome brewing system.

Scaling Beer Recipes By Volume and Efficiency

Converting All Grain Recipes To Malt Extract

Weizenbock Home Brew Recipe Design Process

Developing Your Own Beer Recipes

Here we have the beer recipes along with many of the tasting notes that have been published here on Home Brew Answers.

Black IPA Recipe – Brewing A Classic Black IPA

One beer that seems to wax and wane in popularity is the Black IPA. Getting the balance of colour, flavour and hop aroma is a fine art and I think

Porter Recipe – Brewing A Perfect Porter

I love dark beers of all kinds but porter has to be one of my favourite styles of beer. I have brewed porters at home and commercially and have tried

Making A Braggot – Basic Braggot Recipe

Beer and mead. These two drinks are as old as history itself. Wherever there are fermentable grains you find beer. Wherever there’s plenty of honey

Kettle Sour: Brewing Your First Kettle Soured Beer

You can love it. You can hate it. But there’s no denying the fact that sour beer is an integral part of the vast and intriguing world of beer. Sour

Brown Ale Recipe + Spiced Brown Ale

It’s nearly December already. Every year around I has gotten into the habit of brewing a spiced beer for Christmas. My wife now insists that this

Coconut Stout Recipe – A Decadent Coconut Milk Stout

Coconut can sometimes be a divisive flavour but I happen to like it. I have seen a few coconut beers from commercial breweries over the years and I

When it comes to brewing your own beer you soon come to realise there are no hard and fast rules. You have nobody to please except yourself, this Gose

Clone Beer Recipes – Recreate Your Favourite Commercial Beers

When I started brewing my first few beers were commercial beers I’d tried to recreate. In essence, they were a clone beer. I would say that was

NEIPA A Perfect Beer To Experiment With – New England IPA Recipe

NEIPA or New England IPA, a tropical fruit laden, murky and silky smooth beer style has captured the hearts and minds of craft beer devotees for quite

Mild Ale Recipe – Brewing The Perfect Dark Session Beer

An English Mild may be one of those beers that are perfectly suited for home brewing. It’s one of those beers that isn’t readily available in most

Occasionally it becomes irresistible to try out something completely different to the ordinary home brew beer. As homebrewers we can pick and choose

Lager Fermented At Ale Temperatures?

Fermenting a beer with a lager yeast at ale temperatures. There are probably a few purists that will say the beer will end up a mess of off flavours

Blonde Ale Recipe – A Lawnmower Beer

As a home brewer there is nothing quite as exciting as the weather warming up and the thought of all the beers you are going to make with the

Big English Barley Wine Recipe

Brewing big beers like this Barley Wine recipe is always a bit more of a challenge and more interesting than the regular old “house beer” that we grow

Install This Chrome Extension To Make Reading Beer Recipes A Whole Lot Easier

When it comes to sitting down and researching a new beer recipe you are working on anything that makes the job simpler and easier has got to be good,

A beer that isn’t as popular as it should be are Strong Ales / Old Ales. Currently, so many beers are hop driven it’s easy to forget just how much

Saison Recipe – Belgian Farmhouse Ale

There are few beer styles that are as pleasurable to brew as a Saison and this Saison recipe is no exception. The style can encompass a whole range of

Split Batch Blackberry Porter Recipe

It’s at this time of year that I tend to get overwhelmed by the number of lighter summer beers that I brew and begin wanting something darker

A Nod To Summer Lightning – East Kent Golding Pale Ale Recipe

Many current pale ales have become synonymous with piney, tropical and citrusy American hops. When I first started drinking though at the turn of the

Chinook Single Hop IPA Tasting

If you have visited before you may have seen the recipe published here for Single Hop IPA’s. The gist of the article was as a way to understand

Single Hop IPA Recipe To Evaluate Hop Varieties

There may not be a better way for the home brewer to learn and understand how each ingredient tastes and flavours a beer than by using it as the sole

Forget your IPAs, double IPAs, imperial stouts, I can take them or leave them. If there was only one beer that I had to spend the rest of my life

How Much Does A Pint Of Home Brew Cost?

I am sure there is a great divide between reasons why people get into home brewing, saving money being one of those benefits that may be the whole

Honey Blonde Ale Tasting

The intention of brewing this Blonde Ale was to make a beer that has all those subtle and delicate flavours of honey and retain as much if them as

Honey Blonde Ale Recipe

It seems there are hundreds of beers available now that claim to be honey beers but sometimes it’s difficult to tell just how much honey is in them.

Around a month ago I shared the recipe for a Kolsch I brewed. As promised I will now share the tasting notes for the beer. As a home brewer I

Home Brew Imperial Clone Recipes

Whilst I’m not particularly fond of the term “imperial” which seems to get attached to any beer that is of higher strength than the norm, I must say I

Beginners Guide To Home Brewing Belgian Beers

What I am hoping to do in this post is encapsulate everything about getting to know and getting started brewing Belgian beer in a concise form. There

Kolsch All Grain Recipe That Goes By The Book

I’m not really doing a Kolsch recipe it’s a “Kolsch-style” recipe! Kolsch is one of those beer styles it seems that to truly appreciate and understand

Brown Ale and Spiced Brown Ale Tasting

This Brown Ale Recipe finished up at such a high final gravity I was sure it was going to be too sweet and cloying. The thing about brewing

Oatmeal Pale Ale Tasting

(Here is the recipe for the Oatmeal Pale Ale) Putting a twist on styles and getting to grips with different ingredients is what home brewing is all

Complete Guide To All Grain Brewing (Little Equipment or Experience Needed)

Before we begin I want to make a few things clear about what will be covered in this post just so you know what you’re getting into here: This is a

Oatmeal Pale Ale Recipe

Oatmeal stouts appear to be becoming increasingly popular. There are plenty of options available commercially and there are hundreds of home

Is Your Home Brew Beer Worth $60?

How much is too much to pay for a beer? £5, £8, £12, £20, £40? I would guess everyone would answer differently but there has to be an upper limit,

Session Stout Tasting

It was only a few weeks ago that I brewed the Session Stout but it’s ready to taste so let’s take a look at how it’s turned out. The

Session Stout Recipe

The evenings here in Cornwall are starting to draw in. It’s always around this time of year that the mind turns to darker beers, something less

Citra / Cascade IPA Tasting

The Cascade and Citra combo, how did it turn out? This beer has been in the bottle for about 3-4 weeks now so it’s time to evaluate and critique it.

Citra / Cascade IPA Recipe

Hop heavy beers are not always my favourite to drink. Don’t get me wrong I love a nicely hopped, aromatic, juicy IPA, but not as my go to beer. Maybe