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We making the final edits to the homebrewing chapter and have found that we desperately need an easy to understand beer recipe from scratch. I have only made nettle beer and various beers from kits and so don't want to put a recipe in that has not been tested.

What we ideally need is one where you do everything yourself ie not using malt extract, using dried or fresh hops not pellets. And where it is made using frying pans etc rather than expensive bits of kit.

Can anyone help??? Obviously would get a credit in the book and I hopefully a free copy too.

Gidday

Andy, if you give me a few days I will try to find a stout recipe that my parents used to use way back in the 40's and 50's.

I am hoping I still have it. But I think they did use malt extract but it did use dried hops and was done in a kitchen with no mod cons or even electricity.

This sounds like a really good idea Andy.

Keep it simple and explain each step without presuming any knowledge on the readers' part. This way everyone will have the confidence to try. I nearly said bottle rather than confidence, but we'll need loads of those at the end!

Gidday

Hey Andy, I bloody sorry but I caint find it. Or not yet anyway.

Well it is ok Jack don't worry about it I found out what to do in the end and it is sitting downstairs brewing away. I started the process at around 6 or 7 and finished at gone midnight. Was not easy especially trying to maintain a temperature of 65c.

Friar, I decided that too when taking notes ~(to write up now) that no teminology at all would be used so no mention of the wort, end point or any of that. Basically I am writing the recipe I wanted to see

How about this one,

150g Hops
1 cup wheat Malt
32l water
1.5kg Honey
60g yeast/1 cup wild yeast

Boil half the water with the hops and malted wheat for just under an hour, stir in the honey- then add to the rest of the water in a fermenting bin and allow to cool til lukewarm, then stir in the yeast. Cover the bin and let ferment for about a week before bottling and drinking.

The only special equipment you need is a large fermenting bin that should be sterilized before use, if you dont have a saucepan large enough to boil 16l at a time you can do it in batches with a proportion of hops/wheat.

Didn't Stoney put a nettle beer recipe on here a while ago?

Hope that helps

Kind thoughts
Deb

glenniedragon wrote:How about this one,

150g Hops
1 cup wheat Malt
32l water
1.5kg Honey
60g yeast/1 cup wild yeast

Boil half the water with the hops and malted wheat for just under an hour, stir in the honey- then add to the rest of the water in a fermenting bin and allow to cool til lukewarm, then stir in the yeast. Cover the bin and let ferment for about a week before bottling and drinking.

The only special equipment you need is a large fermenting bin that should be sterilized before use, if you dont have a saucepan large enough to boil 16l at a time you can do it in batches with a proportion of hops/wheat.

Didn't Stoney put a nettle beer recipe on here a while ago?

Hope that helps

Kind thoughts
Deb

Cheers for that but have gone with another one for the book now. Might try that one this weekend though as my last brew will no doubt be finished soon. Seems an awful lot of yeast though???

Yes there is a nettle beer recipe on the main site that stoney provided on here a while back.

most brewers use a special yeast often specific to that particular brew /brewery they take great care to keep it original never use "wild yeast " or bakers yeast in home brew they also take great care in using the best of freshest of ingredeants esp the hops dont forget to add a few at the end of the brew as well

For recipies google "county beer makers" they are an east london home brewing group and I have tasted some of those recipies brill

Andy,

Might be able to find my ol' Grandad's beer recipes. (don't think there will be any lagar ones tho'!.)

Would this help?.

Cheezy wrote:Andy,

Might be able to find my ol' Grandad's beer recipes. (don't think there will be any lagar ones tho'!.)

Would this help?.

It's all been written now. Although if you find a recipe it is always good to post so that we can all have a go at making it.