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.. |