Hi, ive brewed a few of the kits that northern brewer offers, but in the true home brewer style, I want to try to create my own recipie…or atleast throw some ingredients together to have something substantial. I was wondering if you guys could give me some help or point me in the right direction?
You could get a couple of books. Designing Great Beers is one mentioned often. A friend has Brewermaster’s Bible. It list the common ingredients for each style. From there you can put together a recipe.
If you have one of the basic brewing books like How To Brew, look at the recipes in there and adjust one with specialty malts and/or different hops to make it your own, or get a book like Designing Great Beers or Brewing Classic Styles to get an idea of what goes into styles you like. Once you have a recipe in mind, you can post it here for feedback. Tasty brew has a free recipe calculator that helps with the calculations without having to invest in a program like beersmith when you are getting started.
I’m guessing you are doing extract so I’ll just throw this out there:
Basic Pale ale recipe
6-9 lbs of pale malt extract
1 lb. crystal or munich for steeping
1 oz hops (60 min)
1-1.5 oz hops (20 min)
1-1.5 oz hops (5 min)
1-2 oz dry hops in secondary
US-05 or WY1056
Use whatever hops you like. If you want really basic go Cascade of Falconer’s Flight 7c’s for the hops.
6-9 lbs of pale malt extract
1 lb. crystal or munich for steeping
1 oz hops (60 min)
1-1.5 oz hops (20 min)
1-1.5 oz hops (5 min)
1-2 oz dry hops in secondary
US-05 or WY1056[/quote]That’s a solid basic APA recipe however Munich malt needs to be mashed to convert the starch, caramunich can be steeped though. Here’s a handy chart that shows which malts require mashing: