The Infamous Schooling With The Nong Thread

[Brewbirds]

I found a very popular threat from the other site to help add some content. Maybe now that it is here other might want to add to it.

Schooling with the Nong and Friends-beginning brew
• yankeedag•
• Beer Nong•
To help all the newbies (and some of us old dogs that have strayed from the simple path).
Here is a place that we can add those simple but tasty brews. We suggest you try these to learn different basic methods you'll need in the future.
Before you go off trying to make that Special (I made it myself) Brew, build your foundation.
You'll need to know what things taste like before you start filling the cauldron in the laboratory.
Trust me when I tell you this will save you much time and heart ache in your baby steps to home brewing.

I'll let the others repost their additions as I refuse to take claim for others work. So, starting it off:

3.3 # of Light LME (unhopped)
1 oz cascade hops ...30 min boil
Safel S-33 yeast

makes 2.5 gallons of tasty beer.


• BigPapaG
Ninkasi• •
Simple is good... This one has one malt, one hop type and one yeast type!


Here's a simple Belgian... (LBK size)

--> Malt with 2 gallons of Water

4lbs. Briess Golden Light DME or LME

--> 30 minute hop boil:

1/2 ounce Saaz at T-30

1/2 ounce Saaz at T-10

--> Cool quickly (putting the pot in an ice bath helps) to 68-70*F

--> Pour into LBK and top of with cold water

--> Sprinkle whole pack of Fermentis SafAle T-58 (that's a 'type' not a time!) Dry Yeast

EDIT: Alternate Ending... Reduce DME or LME to 3.5lbs and add 2-4 ounces cane sugar at T+5 (5 days into fermentation)...

Allow to ferment for 21 days at 68-76*F (use frozen water bottles or blue ice packs to moderate temperature.)

Prime, bottle and let sit at room temperature for 4 weeks. (Ask us, we will help!)



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• berryman
•• Ninkasi
• Happy Hound Brewery
Here's a quickie for a LBK somewhat like Dags,
3.3 lbs. Lite LME,
30 min. hop boil with 1/4 oz Galena
add 1/4 oz Hallertau @20 min
and 1/4oz Hallertau @ 10 min.
Use US-05 yeast and ferment on the very bottom cold side.
Your Bud drinking friends will think you are a homebrewing wizzard. Around 5.5 ABV 23 IBU light color 8

• mashani
• Über Brewer• •

Take the Simple Belgian recipe from above, reduce the extract to 2.75# and use Pilsner extract instead if you can get it. Reduce the @10 saaz to 1/4oz, and direct pitch a smackpack of 3787 trappist high gravity yeast. No need for a starter.

And you will have a tasty Patersbier - which is Belgian monks table beer. (think Belgian session beer).

You *can* use the T-58 here too, and it will make good light beer. But the 3787 gives it more complex flavor.
You will be amazed by how much flavor this simple of a beer can have if you use 3787.


• Knightmare
• Ninkasi•

Heres a nice clean wheat beer that has great Cascade nose and flavor with a good wheat finish.

Hop Along Wheat

3.3 lb Wheat LME
1/2 oz Williamette hops 60 min
1/2 oz Cascade hops 15 min
1/2 oz Cascade hops 0 min
S-05 Ale yeast

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• Screwy Brewer
• Ninkasi
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•Fast and Easy Barley Stout 4.7% ABV.

0.25 pound Crystal 10L
0.50 pound Roasted Barley Malt (British)
2.00 pounds Muntons DME - Light

1.00 ounce Kent Goldings (UK) pellet hops boiled for 60 minutes

1.00 packet Danstar Windsor Dry Ale Yeast

Heat 12.00 quarts of filtered water to 160F
Add grains and steep for 30 minutes between 152-157F
Remove grain bag
Add hops and DME and boil for 60 minutes

Pour cooled wort into fermenter keg and pitch yeast
Ferment at constant 65-70F temperature for 21 days


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• Screwy Brewer
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Here is my Next Step Brew recipe, or NSB for short, it's a great way to improve any beer recipe made from any type of extract, liquid or dry. Heat up a gallon of water and steep 1/2 pound of CaraPils for 30 minutes between 152-157F, you'll love the smell of this I guarantee.

Remove the grain bag containing the CaraPils from the steep and let it drain, but I don't squeeze the grains because of deeply rooted personal issues. Bring the steep to a boil for 30 minutes and then resume your regularly scheduled programming or directions that came with your recipe for adding in the extracts.

Why do this you may ask, it seems like extra work?

Well now that you've asked CaraPils is a specialty grain that adds body, foam and head retention to any beer without, and here's the punchline, changing the flavor or taste of the beer. Extracts are awesome to use and a real time saver but, extract brews can all use a little help in the body, foam and head retention area, if you know what I mean.



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• teutonic terror
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This a Hefeweisen I made when I first started moving away from doing all MB recipes!

HefeWeisen1
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Brewer: JohnEC
Style: Weizen/Weissbier
Batch: 2.13 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.050 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 13 IBU
Recipe Color: 4° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.012
Alcohol by Volume: 4.8%
Alcohol by Weight: 3.8%

Ingredients
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CaraPils - [Body, Head] 0.25 lb, Grain, Steeped
MrB. Booster 0.25 lb, Sugar, Other
Muntons DME - Wheat (60%/40%)2.00 lb, Extract, Extract

Tettnanger (U.S.) 0.50 oz, Pellet, 40 minutes

Weihenstephan Weizen 3068 yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast,

Notes
Steeped the Carapils in one gallon of water for 30 mins@160F.
I boiled 3/4 lb of the extract and MB booster and the hops for 40 min. Added the other 1 1/4 of DME and held at 190F for 10 mins to kill the bugs and keep it from darkening!
LBK'd it just like a MB recipe!
Fermented at 68F for 18 days. Watch the overflow from the LBK! The Hefe yeast is quite vigorous!
Bottle as usual.
Was one of my better recipes if memory serves me!
Enjoy!



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• JohnDubya

•An easy non-MrB DME batch to do:

Smithwicks clone

.5 lb carahell (steeped)
6 lbs Light DME
1 oz UK first gold leaf plugs 60 min boil
3/4 oz uk fuggle hop 15 min Boil
3/4 oz uk kent golding hop 15 min boil
1 tsp irish moss 15 min boil
1/4 oz uk fuggle hop Flameout
1/4 oz uk kent golding hop Flameout
11.5 g S33 yeast

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[jimjohson]

APA
2.5gal
1 lb amber dme
2 lb light dme
21g hallertauer @ 60 min
7g cascade @ 20 min
5g cascade @ 5 min
.25 whirlfloc @ 5 min
Safale US-05

O.G. 1.053
F.G. 1.012
IBU 31.4
SRM 8
ABV 5.4%