Beer Recipes

Chocolate Roggenbier – A Spicy Take on Hefeweizen

Recipe by Jon Griffin This is an award winning homebrew recipe. This beer has a big, creamy mouthfeel, lots of spicy notes from the rye and fruity esters from the hefeweizen yeast. If you like roggenbier, you will love chocolate roggen. BJCP Category: Roggenbier (German Rye Beer) Skill Level: Expert Type: All Grain Yield: 5.00Gallons Malts: 5 lbs... [Read more of this review]

Kell’s Nut Brown

My sister loves Nut Brown Ale so I made this recipe for her (yes she brews too). This has been brewed for several years and has won many awards at home brew competitions. For you BJCP people this is category 11c BJCP Category: Northern English Brown Ale Skill Level: Beginner Type: Extract with steeping grains Yield: 5 Gallons Malts: 3.3 lbs Light... [Read more of this review]

Old Rasputin Imperial Stout Clone

Recipe by Jon Griffin A home brew clone of North Coast Brewing Company. This big Russian Imperial Stout will warm your winter nights. This beer also ages extremely well, I would save it for several years at least, but I know you can’t wait BJCP Category: Imperial Stout Skill Level: Intermediate Type: Extract with steeping grains Yield: 5... [Read more of this review]

Chocolate Porter – Home Brew Recipe

Recipe by Jon Griffin This is an extract version of my best of show Chocolate Porter. It is almost the same as the all-grain version, and much easier. A chocolatey version of a Robust Porter, this also does extremely well in the specialty beer category. Malts: 3 lbs Light DME 3 lbs Dark DME 4 oz Chocolate Malt 1 lb Molasses (boil 60 minutes) 8 oz... [Read more of this review]

Malta – Non Alcoholic Malt Beverage from the Caribbean and Latin America

By Jon Griffin Malta is a non-alcoholic beverage common in the the Caribbean and Latin America. It is basically unfermented wort. Traditionally, since this was treated as a foodstuff, no adjuncts were added. However, all commercial examples I could find, both in the US and in Cuba now contain Sugar of some kind, generally Molasses but also Cane Sugar.... [Read more of this review]

Christmas Beer – A Homebrew Recipe

Recipe By Jon Griffin A spicy, fruity moderate strength English Style Christmas Ale. This is based on an English bitter base and is a fairly easy homebrew recipe, although it does take a little bit of experience. I would advise not increasing the spice amounts. People that have tried that have found the flavor to be to overbearing. You can also change... [Read more of this review]

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