Easy Custom Beer Recipe Writing Guide For HomeBrewers

Easy Custom Beer Recipe Writing Guide For HomeBrewers

This video provides a custom recipe guide to assist homebrewers in learning to write their own all grain beer recipes that is suitable for a wide range of brewers from beginner and upwards.

Below is the example recipe plus a link to it on Brewfather.

CUSTOM BEER - RECIPE EXAMPLE - 4.9%

Type: All Grain
IBU : 37 (Tinseth)
BU/GU : 0.81
Colour : 8 EBC
Carbonation : 2.4 CO2-vol
Pre-Boil Gravity : 1.042
Original Gravity : 1.045
Final Gravity : 1.008

Fermentables (4.21 kg)
2 kg - Pale Ale Malt 6.3 EBC (47.5%)
2 kg - Pilsner 2-Row 3 EBC (47.5%)
210 g - Chateau Cara Blond 20 EBC (5%)

Hops
30 min - Nectaron - (7 IBU)
15 min - Nectaron (22 IBU)
Hop Stand
15 min hopstand @ 80 °C
15 min 80 °C - Nectaron - (7 IBU)
Yeast
5 g - Kveik Yeastery Ebbegarden #9
^ Kveik Yeastery
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Introduction music:- Drink Beer (Till The Day That I Die) by Dazie Mae
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Introduction music:- Drink Beer (Till The Day That I Die) by Dazie Mae
Channel links:-

Introduction music:- Drink Beer (Till The Day That I Die) by Dazie Mae

[PeterDuvdahl]

I've been thinking about experimenting, and now this video came out. Thank you David!

[MadzP]

I've just begun split batching to learn myself, but i do not have time for small sizing but have to for malt testing
Malts: for malt testing i have to make two batches of 12 liters. i ferment together i cornlius kegs, crash them, bottle a few with itap or carb while crashing and tasting at that point. Then i transfer both beers into one cornelius keg and put in my kegerator as one beer.
Yeast: same simple style recipe with one batch of 22-25 liter and then i ferment in two to three cornlius kegs and do the same as before, although as yeast can attenuate differently i have to get it warm again after crashing it to ferment any leftovers out after combining before i crash once again. A bit longer process.
Lastly with hops (mostly only test big aroma hops) i make a pale ale / ipa with bittering hop and after boil i transfer directly to small jugs and then add all my hop testing in those as flameout, after a days natural crash i put into cornelius and do as usual and again combine for one beer, typically using US05 for this.
By combining i both get each thing and how it plays together and end up with one full keg of beer with combined flavors.

[scottyzlive]

Awesome Channel mate I love it. I’ve listened to many of your videos now but this one has me thinking. I’ve recently bought the 65L gen 4 after doing a couple of years of kit and kilo, stopping for obvious reasons, I’m itching to get into it again. So do I stick to a SMASH for my 1st AG before getting into more complex recipes? I have 25kgs Coopers Ale single origin, some carapils and caramalt. Found two hops cryovac in freezer El dorado & Melba. Have put all into Brewfather for a straight down the middle APA. Your suggestions would be greatly appreciated mate.

[Aan]

This video was grate David, just loved it 😍
Thanks for the effort and time 👍👍👍

[jimmythekidd]

Looking forward to trying out the hop schedule/IBU levels in a Golden Promise with Galaxy SMaSH this weekend using the 30 minute boil with Verdant Yeast and an added Galaxy dry hop just to use them up. Will definitely be trying this brew at some point though. Thanks for this David 🤘

[bulldog]

Great video. I often get confused about when to add hop editions and ibu’s in a recipe, as you say in this video, adding 7ibu at 30 min, 20 at 15min and 7ibu into hop stand. Obviously mixing these around changes hop quantity however is there a standard formula where you want to add 20% ibu at commencement of boil, 60% as a flavour addition then 20% at whirlpool for a pale ale for instance ?

[zeddicus]

Great video and guidance! How did the beer turn out eventually?

[aaroncook]

Is this the best place to start out for a new brewer? I was thinking I'd make 4-5 identical "SMaSH" batches with the only difference being the base malt, then change the hops, the timing of the hop additions, and finally the yeast.

[Leggfish]

David, thank you for another great video - you've helped me significantly over the last 3 years as I've learned to love my Grainfather and the beer it produces. I have a question about the hop schedule. 7 IBU from the bittering hops, 22 IBU from the flavour hops and 7 from the aroma. Could you explain why you suggest that ratio please - i.e. is there a reason why you don't use the bittering hops to produce the highest amount of bittering units? Thanks.

[thaifoodtakeaway]

It is fascinating to see how many homebrewing youtubers are pushing the Nectaron hop all of a sudden. I wonder what is the budget of this NZHops promotion campaign. It is certainly no coincidence that all the videos are coming out at the same time. I am not complaining, it is great to see new hops coming to the market, however some more transparency of what is obviously a form of advertising would be appreciated. anyway, this is a good base recipe to test future brews.

[janschoot]

Great to do it like this. I'm a new grainfather user and want to know how to get this recipe in grainfather app. I have no account for brewfather so i can't export it. Is there a way to do it or did you put in grainfather recipies.

[tman]

Love your systematic approach. Would you use the same base malt combo as a baseline for high gravity IP’A’s??? Using high gravity IPA’s how much yeast food would you use for 7-8% beers (5G test batch) ??

[jcinsaniac]

Excellent presentation...greatly enjoyed and entertained...I wondered if you have experimented with Philly Sour yeast? It is reported to ferment warm (22-25C), where, for a few days it generates lactic and sours your batch - then it switches to alcohol production. This recipe is close to a Berliner Weisse that would feature this yeast without the fuss of a kettle sour and a boil then a fermentation. Have you tried this yeast? THANKS!

[BlahBlah]

Another fantastic video David. Thanks. I am really keen to try out some different hops and grains so that I know how they change a beer and then expand that into different recipes.

[alexandersoderholm]

What methods do you use for temperature control during fermentation for small batches?

[mardanheddeokwa]

Hi David, this is a very good and informational video. Thanks for sharing this info!

[benbinks]

Strangely I had already just ordered 5 x 5kg of different base malts, and 5 x 100g different hops. It was as a result of wasting money on awful extract kits. Looks like I may have learned a thing or two watching the channel

[fcmin]

Noob question. How to determine required quantity of malts for 20Ltr brewing system and 50Ltr brewing system?