recipes

We cater to people learning to brew and that means we want simple recipes that taste great. Here are a list of some simple, excellent-tasting beers we’ve brewed and refined to their simplest elements. Don’t be surprised to find that some of these simple recipes taste as good as commercial beers.

All of the beers on this page will taste great when brewed using our simple guide for brewing great beer, available here.

German Hefeweizen (like Paulaner or franziskaner)

This is a really nice summer and warm weather beer. It has a flavor much different than American style Hefeweizens like Widmer Borthers’ or Pyramid. Europeans have been enjoying this style for centuries. It becomes well-carbonated in the bottle and remains cloudy by design.

Ingredients:

4oz German Munich malt
6lb liquid wheat extract (60% wheat, 40% barley)
1oz German Hallertauer Hersbrucker hops
Wyeast 3333 German wheat yeast
1 cups corn sugar or 1 1/2 cups dry malt extract

Instructions:

Follows our standard brewing instructions per our guide book. The hops are to be placed in the pot for the entire boil. There are no aroma hops in this recipe. If you have trouble sourcing German Hallertauer Hersbrucker hops, you can easily substitute with American or New Zealand Hallertauer, or Mt Hood hops from here in Oregon. The fermentation should be done at about 70 degrees.
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American Northwest Ale (similar to Mirror Pond)

Great all weather beers are generally the most popular. This is a good one. It’s not really a clone of any particular beer, but it’s brewed in the style of the ales of the American Pacific Northwest (where we live). It’s great on a hot summer night, and great by the fire on Christmas Eve. With a mildly hoppy taste and aroma, and a medium color, it’s the base recipe we recommend that most people start with.

Ingredients:

10 oz Vienna malt
10 oz 10L Crystal malt
6lb light liquid malt extract
1 1/2 oz Sterling hops (add 1/2 if you want to dry hop)
1 oz Tettnanger hops
Wyeast 1338 European Ale yeast
1 1/2 cups corn sugar or dry malt extract

Instructions:

Follows our standard brewing instructions per our guide book. Hops are to be placed in the boil in this order: 1oz Sterling for 60 mins, 1oz Tettnanger for 20 mins, 1/2oz Sterling for 10 mins. If you want to try dry-hopping you can place an additional 1/2oz hops in the secondary fermenter for the duration. We cover how to do that in our guides. The fermentation should be done at about 65-70 degrees.
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American Northwest Porter

A cold weather brew with a hoppy aroma. In the American Pacific Northwest beers are commonly brewed with a stronger hop content than elsewhere in the world and this beer reflects that tradition. It’s dark but easy to drink. If you want high carbonation be sure to add more sugar or malt extract at bottling.

Ingredients:

12oz 80L Crystal malt
10oz Chocolat malt
2oz black malt
6lb dark liquid malt extract
2 oz Cascade hops
Wyeast 1084 Irish Ale yeast
1 cups corn sugar or 1 1/2 cups dry malt extract

Instructions:

Follows our standard brewing instructions per our guide book. Hops are to be placed in the boil in this order: 1oz 60 mins, 1/2oz 15mins, 1/2oz 5 mins. The fermentation should be done at about 62-64 degrees to prevent unwanted flavors.
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India Pale Ale (IPA)

This is a hop-enhanced very of the ale we describe above. The additional hoppiness gives this IPA a real kick. IPA’s are popular all season beers, but even more popular in the winter months. We had a request for this one, so here it is!

Ingredients:

10 oz Vienna malt
10 oz 10L Crystal malt
6lb light liquid malt extract
3 3/4oz Cascade hops
2 1/2oz Centennial hops
Wyeast 1338 European Ale yeast
1 1/2 cups corn sugar or dry malt extract

Instructions:

Follows our standard brewing instructions per our guide book. Hops are to be placed in the boil in this order: 3/4 oz Cascade - 60 min, 1/2 oz Centennial - 45 min, 1 oz Centennial - 30 min, 1 oz Cascade - 1 min. This should be dry-hopped with the remaining hops. The fermentation should be done at about 65-70 degrees.