Adam's Homebrew Recipes Page

Ever since I started homebrewing I have kept a little brown book with my recipes. While I have forgotten or otherwise lost some of the recipes (perhaps due to drinking a little too much homebrew while brewing), I have kept fairly complete logs for most concotions. For beer, I have included my mash schedule (actually, the whole brewing schedule). Other brews, such as mead, wine, or lambic, I include the ingredients and a comment on the brew procedure. For all cases, I try to get an Original Gravity (OG), Final Gravity (FG), and the gravity readings at racking. I also keep track of brew, racking, and bottling dates. I'm not nearly organized enough to keep track of drinking dates!

(Under Construction, actual recipes to come)

Adam's Homebrew Recipes

Brew Name Style Brew Date Batch Size OG FG Comments
Plum Wine 1 Fruit Wine ? 5 Gal ? ?
Plum Wine 2 Fruit Wine ? 5 Gal ? ?
Cherry Mead Melomel 12/09/1998 1 Gal 1.140 1.014
Sweet Raspberry Mead Melomel 12/05/1998 1 Gal 1.143 1.007
Tangerine Ginger Mead Melomel 12/09/1998 1 Gal 1.120 1.025
Honey Mead Traditional Mead 12/09/1998 1 Gal ? 1.016
Cranberry Mead Melomel 12/09/1998 1.5 Gal 1.135 1.036
First Brown Ale Brown Ale 10/09/1999 5 Gal 1.040 1.012 First extract beer
Jack in the Bottle Pumpkin Ale 12/05/1998 5 Gal 1.100 1.004
Wacky Wheat Wheat Beer 04/23/2000 5 Gal 1.040 1.005 First all-grain beer!
Wicked Ale Pete's Wicked Ale Clone 05/21/2000 5 Gal ? ? Lost recipe
Ihafta Pee Ale IPA 06/16/2000 5 Gal 1.050 1.010
Transporter Porter 08/06/2000 5 Gal 1.048 1.011 Dark, roasty finish, moderately hopped
Three Vice Stout Chocolate Coffee Stout 09/26/2000 5 Gal 1.060 1.014 Very popular, coffee overwhelming though
Very Strong Ale Strong Ale/Barleywine 10/15/2000 5 Gal 1.075 1.025 Rich malty flavor, a bit unbalanced but nice and warming beer
Snail Trail Pale Ale English Pale 11/19/2000 5 Gal 1.050 1.012 Nice bitterness, gravity could be higher
Gunbarrel Hippy Beer Spice (Tea) Beer 02/10/2001 5 Gal 1.042 1.012 First Red Zinger Tea beer, became my signature brew
Ashfield Ale ? 07/15/2001 5 Gal 1.052 1.016 First brew in my new house
F*@(^$ed Up Honey Nut Honey Nut Brown Ale 09/08/2001 5 Gal 1.058 ? Dropped carboy trying to move it after pitching. :-( :-(
10-8 Pumpkin Ale Vegi Ale 10/07/2001 5 Gal 1.049 1.014 Baked pumpkin with spices and added to boil. Yummy, but too dark.
Extra Special Beer ESB 11/04/2001 5 Gal 1.048 1.012 Based on the (former) Oasis Brewery's Capstone Ale
Vagabond Ginger Ale Spice Beer 11/10/2001 5 Gal 1.048 1.012 Spicy ginger, odd, but was really good after aging.
Light House Ale Light? Ale 12/15/2001 5 Gal 1.042 1.008 Too bitter, not balanced, flat tasting
New Year in Munich Munich Lager 01/06/2002 5 Gal 1.056 1.010 First lager
Zinger of an Ale Spice (Tea) Beer 01/26/2002 5 Gal 1.038 1.008 Great session beer, 2nd in the series
2ESB||!2ESB ESB 03/10/2002 5 Gal 1.042 1.010 Well bodied, more malty than last ESB, hop bitterness mellowed with age
Raspberry Ginger Mead Melomel 08/03/2002 3 Gal 1.072 1.013 Made with honey from my backyard, bottled in blue flip-top bottles
Wonderfully Wicked Pete's Wicked Ale Clone 08/04/2002 5 Gal 1.040 1.007
Marzen in January Oktoberfest Lager 01/19/2003 5 Gal 1.042 1.010 Double decoction mash, second lager
Nucular Brown Ale Brown Ale 03/02/2003 5 Gal 1.070/1.025 1.012 Newcastle Brown Ale clone, brewed as two separate beers blended at secondary.
Spring Zinger Spice (Tea) Beer 04/06/2003 5 Gal 1.040 1.008 Yet another signature brew
Winky Dink Dunkles Dunkles Lager 11/12/2003 5 Gal 1.058 1.022
Porter American Porter 12/08/2003 5 Gal 1.040 1.010
Solstice Lambic Blueberry Pseudo-Lambic 12/21/2003 5 Gal 1.054 1.020 Funky Lambic! Still sitting in the carboy (12/2006). :-)
Another Zinger Spice (Tea) Beer 02/15/2004 5 Gal 1.050 1.010 I'm running out of clever Zinger names
Better Bitter English Bitter 05/01/2004 5 Gal 1.052 1.004 First experiment with First Wort Hopping
Pomegranate Mead Melomel 01/02/2006 3.3 Gal 1.095 1.007 Pomegranate mead made with backyard honey
Transporter II Robust Porter 02/25/2006 5 Gal 1.060 1.012 Strong dark porter.
Apricot Ale Fruit Wheat Beer 09/17/2006 5 Gal 1.052 1.008 One of my favorite beers yet! Based on Pyrimid.
Coconut Cream Stout Cream Stout 10/29/2006 5 Gal 1.052 1.010 This beer won the Mountain Sun beer competition
Pilsener Bohemian Pilsener 12/17/2006 5 Gal 1.060 ? First pilsener, based on Ray Danliels's "Perfect Pilsener"
Belgian Ale Belgian Ale 12/30/2006 5 Gal 1.052 ?
Irish Car Bomb Cream Stout 11/15/2008 5 Gal 1.068 1.020 Just like the drink -- The Irish Car Bomb! Irish Cream flavors, Jameson, and of course Irish Stout.
Catch Her in the RyePA Rye Pale Ale 01/25/2009 5 Gal 1.052 1.009 American Rye Pale Ale with mild dry hop and a bit of grainy texture from the rye.
Crazy Old Nut Brown Ale Nut Brown Ale 05/02/2009 5 Gal 1.058 1.012 A nice nut brown ale, similar to Newcastle but more like a Sammy Smith's.
Belgian Wit Belgian Wit 08/23/2009 5 Gal 1.060 1.008 Brewed using fresh coriander from the garden and home-dried orange peels for a fruity yet spicy flavor.
Mint Chocolate Stout Dry Irish Stout 10/25/2009 5 Gal 1.052 1.012 If you like Thin Mint or Grasshopper cookies, peppermint bark, mint chocolate chip ice cream, or just want to have nice fresh breath right after drinking a beer, you're gonna love this one..

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