Topic: Recipe Calculations
Designing Your Own Beer Recipes
Digital and Plus Members OnlyIf you asked me to create a cake recipe from scratch, I would probably stare blindly at you for a few moments before giving up. Yes, I know you can make a cake from some combination of sugar, butter, flour and flavoring, but honestly I would have no idea where to start on a recipe
Recipe Creation
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMany of you will reach a point where you want to construct your own recipe from scratch, even though there is a huge range of recipes already available in books, magazines, on the web, and from your homebrew supplier. There is a lot to be said for sticking to an established recipe, but this is
Recipe Creation
Digital and Plus Members OnlyDeveloping new recipes is really one of my favorite things about brewing and I have some fairly strong opinions about this topic. Before I begin with my answer I think it is important to state that there are a few schools of thought about recipe development and that my method and general belief is certainly
Scaling Up Recipes
FREEThe hard part about answering this question involves determining IBUs in a beer. For the moment, let’s ignore the elephant in the room and pretend that that is not so difficult for
Scaling Down Recipes
FREEI have been designing beers using math since I first learned how to calculate a brew 25 years ago. There is something rewarding in the formality that goes into crunching numbers and
Converting Recipes
Digital and Plus Members OnlyConvert recipes between all-grain and extract with some simple calculations.
Finding Balance
Digital and Plus Members OnlyMr. Wizard helps a reader make his maltiness more massive.
Choosing Hop Varieties
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThere are many ingredients that brewers use to flavor and season their beer, from orange peel and coriander to black pepper and grains of paradise. But the gold standard remains the humble hop. Hops have long served many purposes in beer. They provide bitterness to balance the sweetness of malt, and add myriad flavors and aromas. When choosing which hop or combination of hops to include in a particular beer there are several questions that come to mind. What type and degree of bitterness, flavor and aroma is desired in the beer to be brewed? How are the bitterness, flavor and aroma derived from hops? What style of beer is being brewed, or am I leaving style guidelines behind to create something of my own?
Increasing Your Extract Efficiency
Digital and Plus Members OnlyAre you getting all you can get out of your malt? With malt prices on the rise, you may be wondering about this. Discover ways to get a better yield without sacrificing wort quality or expanding a brewday.
Hop Substitutions
Digital and Plus Members OnlyStrategies to brew recipes using different hops.
Balanced Recipe Formulation
Digital and Plus Members OnlyTired of brewing other people’s recipes? Learn the basics of recipe formulations, from making an ingredient list to choosing the right techniques. We’ll cover what you need and how to go about it, with discussions of all major brewing ingredients and what they add to beer. Plus, discussions of balance, complexity, harshness in dark grains, grains for body and cohumulone in hops. Plus: a recipe for "copper ale"
Balancing Malt & Hops: Tips from the Pros
Digital and Plus Members OnlyThe combined wisdom of Alan Pugsley (Shipyard Brewing), Todd Charbonneau (Harpoon Brewery) and Kirby Nelson (Capital Brewery) on the topic of malt and hop combinations.