Brew Your Own Beer Anyone?

In these times we are all looking for ways to cut costs without lowering our standard of living. That includes drinking Microbrewed beer. So if you want to try and do your own, here a few recipes you can try.


Anchor Porter Clone

Category Porter

Recipe Type Partial Mash

Here is a porter last year that was loosely based on Miller's partial mash

Fermentables:

4 lb British pale ale 2-row malt
1 lb black patent malt
.5 lb dark crystal malt
3.3 lbs M&F extra light syrup

Hops:

12.8 AAU Northern Brewer (boil)

Yeast:

Wyeast #1084 the Fighting Irish

Procedure:

Mash all grains together in a single infusion at 150F using 1-1/3 qt water per pound of grain. Sparge with 11 qt water, dissolve syrup, add water to make 6-1/2 or 7 gallons. Boil 1 hour, using all the hops. Chill, aerate, pitch, etc. Gravities were 1.055 and 1.016. I used a two-step starter on the Wyeast, and did a secondary on the beer. 18 days from boil to bottle (this was in November).



Anchor Steam-Style Amber

Category Steam Beer

Recipe Type Extract

Fermentables:

7 lbs John Bull plain light malt extract
1/4-1/2 lbs crystal malt

Hops:

2 oz Northern Brewer hops (11 alpha) (boil)
1 oz Cascade hops (5.6 alpha) (finish)

Yeast:

2 packs lager yeast

Procedure:

Pour 1 gallon water into brewpot. Crush grains and add to brewpot. Bring to boil. Remove grains. Add malt extract. Add 1/3 of the boiling hops. After 20 minutes, add another 1/3 of hops. After another 20 minutes add the last 1/3 of hops. After another 20 minutes, remove from heat and add finishing hops. Cover wort. Pour 3 gallons cold water into fermenter. Strain wort into fermenter along with enough water to make 5-1/2 gallons. Pitch yeast and put in blowoff tube or airlock.


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