Everyday Beer

[alp731]

Does anyone have a favorite everyday beer recipe?

 

[crundle]

For me, if AG it is Smurto's Golden Ale, and if kits, then a Coopers Mexican Cervaza with some Cascade thrown in.

Crundle

 

[Tony]

Welcome to the forum alp.

First up a few questions.

Do you use kits, extract brew or are you all grain?

An "Everyday beer" to me, is something simple and eay to drink. But it also has to make me go........mmmmmmmm thats good..... each time i have a sip.

I like these type of beers in the summer when its hot and i like to knock a few back.

let us know your brewing method and im sure you will get all the ideas you need

cheers

 

[alp731]

I am doing AG with limited lagering space so I normally brew ales. As you said Tony, I want to say YUM, YUM with each sip.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks Y'All!!!

 

[Tony]

AG My kind of speak

Being from the USA, probably best to stick with local hops ect.

A couple very very popular quaffers with character here are:

Dr Smurto's Golden Ale

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...&recipe=502

My interpritation of an Aussie beer we call LCBA:

http://www.aussiehomebrewer.com/forum/inde...&recipe=301

(sub amarillo to replace the B-Saaz which is grown in New Zealand)

another one to consider is Kolsch. Its simple, clean but very nice and far to easy to drink. Im planning one very soon using Wyeast 1010 american Wheat yeast for the dry clean finnish.

here is the recipe i will be using

77% pilsner malt
10% Munich malt
7% Carapils
6% Wheat malt

Hallertau at 45 min bittering addition to 26 IBU
3/4 gram/Liter flame out

1.046 26 IBU, 7EBC about 4.8% ABV

Mash at 65 deg
boil for 90 min
ferment as cool as posible to keep it clean.

cheers

 

[shonks69]

Hi All

I am a novice brewer using modified kit style brews, Does anyone no of a good Australian Bitter style brew preferably a VB style clone.

Cheers
Shonks

 

[buttersd70]

Alp
in the banner there is a recipe database...if you go there, you can sort by type and select AG, and then you can sort by rating. DrSmurtos GA and Tonys LCBA are the top 2 rated beers on the database.
Next one down is DrSmurto's Landlord, which is an English ESB, and is a real corker. One of Tonys most recent sounds great (but I havent had a chance to try it yet - glad you posted Tony, cos I'd forgotten about it.)
New age aussie wheat link

Just a note on the hops we use in our recipes here...you'll see that pellets are very common. That's more to do with our import and quarantine laws, not because we think pellets are better than flowers....we can't import flowers into this country other than from New Zealand, so have to make do with pellets. :angry: ...Given that you're in the states, you won't have that restriction.

If you want a taste of Australia....there are 3 clone recipes of Coopers beers (which is Australias only remaining family owned Brewery, in Adelaide)
pale ale
sparkling ale
dark ale

They use the Australian pride of ringwood hop...I've seen it advertised in the states, but f it's hard to get, you could sub out for Northern Brewer.

happy brewing

 

[buttersd70]

Hi All

I am a novice brewer using modified kit style brews, Does anyone no of a good Australian Bitter style brew preferably a VB style clone.

Cheers
Shonks

Shonks....before you get shot down in flames, try
link
If you wade through all the pisstaking, theres actually some sound advise on how to make what is arguably Australias worst beer.

 

[Tony]

preferably a VB style clone.

Dude.......... thats like asking for a pint of petrol and a match at a fireman's picnic :lol:

If your making kits then your kind of stuck with what they give you but i do recal making the coopers draught (blue tin) when i was at that stage and made with US-05 at 18 deg it would be a good beer. I used to use a 50/50 mix of dex and dry malt extract.

Dont bother adding any hops if you want VB.

back to alp...... Aussie Ale!

I didnt raise this as i didnt know Pride of Ringwood was available in the US.

simple recipe thats won awards for me and knocked off a few APA's h34r:

95% Ale Malt (or pilsner malt if you prefer it)
5% Wheat malt

1.048, 8 EBC

POR to 10 IBU, FWH in a 90 min boil
POR to 17 IBU 45 min boil
1/2 gram per liter POR 5 min boil

Mash at 64 to 65 deg
ferment cool with US-05

mmmmm this is my favorite beer i would say. You asked for favorite.......... thats mine

cheers

 

[Tony]

A quick shot of the "New Age Aussie Wheat" beer to make you thirsty

 

[alp731]

Thanks all for the advice. I will try those recipe's.
Good Brewing!!!!

Thanks Again!!!!

 

[Zwickel]

Tony, that looks like a crystal weizen, yummie.

In Bavaria often the crystal weizen is served with a slice of lemon on the rim of the glass, very refreshing.

Cheers :icon_cheers:

 

[Tony]

Hey Zwickel.

Its made with mostly wheat but thats where the similarities with Weizen end.

I used US-05 for a clean finish and its fairly hoppy and 33 IBU.

bloody good bush tucka if you ask me

cheers

 

[alp731]

Tony,
I'm still alittle new at brewing and do not understand your abbreviations. If you could enlighten me I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!

 

[Tony]

Ahhh sorry

POR = Pride of Ringwood. Aussie hop.
IBU = International Bitterness Unit (i think). Its the bitterness.
EBC = the colour unit most use here in Australia. Its about double the SRM unit comonly used in the USA.
FWH = First Wort Hop. Its when you put your hops into the dry kettle and rack the beer from the mash onto them. It will generally give you a 10% increase in utilisation for the hops used. It is said to give a smoother bitterness and can help burn in some hop character.
US-05 = Clean american yeast. Its a dry version of WLP001 or 1056 in liquid form.
All temperature figures are in Degrees Celcius.
All volumes in Liters
All weights in Grams and Kilos.

Im afrain being an Aussie site your gunna have to do some converting back to your imperial measures. we work in 10's here

If you pick a recipe you want to make and let us know what volume you brew to, im sure me, or someone on here when they all wake up (im on night shift) can convert it to imperial measures and give you grain and hop quantities as aposed to the %age measures i have given.

I give recipes in percent quantities as i brew 52 liter batches which is what............ 8 or 10 gallons?..... and this allows people to acuratly scale the recipe to their brewing size. most brew 23 liters or 4 or 5 gallons.

do you have brewing software like Promash or Beersmith?

cheers

 

[alp731]

The software I use is beertools.pro. I have an imac and the rest will not run on apple computers. I brew 5 gal batches and have coverted metric recipes before that came out ok.
Thanks so much for the abbreviations.
Archie

PS: Pride of Ringwood is no longer being sold here; at least not that I can find. Any substitute suggestions?

 

[Renegade]

Tony,
I'm still alittle new at brewing and do not understand your abbreviations. If you could enlighten me I would appreciate it.
Thanks!!

Welcome aboard, mate. Tony's already explained his abbreviations, but if you ever get stuck with other terms often used here, here is a great list to get your head around (from the articles section)

Home Brew Acronyms

 

[apd]

...I've seen it advertised in the states, but f it's hard to get, you could sub out for Northern Brewer.

Like butters said, go with Northern Brewer if you can't can POR.

Andrew

 

[troublebrewing]

95% Ale Malt (or pilsner malt if you prefer it)
5% Wheat malt

Its made with mostly wheat but thats where the similarities with Weizen end.

You got a weird definition of mostly. :lol: Are these %'s right, or is 5% wheat a lot?

 

[Tony]

top quoted recipe is Aussie ale made with 5% wheat..... not much

Bottom quote was refering to an Aussie Wheat beer made with about 70% wheat... thats mostly

cheers