whats your top best 5 recipes

[Andy__]

Made a few good ales, with a mate of mine saying. "Being honest mate your a bit of a c**t really, you make your own beer and its mint, you cook food and thats mint, your mrs is mint, there just no competing", I was happy with that because he doesn't dish out many compliments usually.

That's a moment when you lean back in your chair, put a cigar between your teeth, hands behind your head and go "yeah" with a slight nod of the head!

Satisfyingly smug!!

Proper grin moment indeed

I'm thinking of this as my next one:
Batch Size (L): 23.0 Total Grain (kg): 7.900 Total Hops (g): 230.00 Original Gravity (OG): 1.076 (°P): 18.4 Final Gravity (FG): 1.019 (°P): 4.8 Alcohol by Volume (ABV): 7.47 % Colour (SRM): 8.2 (EBC): 16.1 Bitterness (IBU): 77.8 (Average) Brewhouse Efficiency (%): 70 Boil Time (Minutes): 60
Grain Bill----------------
7.000 kg Maris Otter Malt (88.61%)
0.400 kg Crystal 10 (5.06%)
0.200 kg Flaked Wheat (2.53%)
0.200 kg Torrified Wheat (2.53%)
0.100 kg Carapils (Dextrine) (1.27%)
Hop Bill----------------
40.0 g Centennial Leaf (9.7% Alpha) @ 60 Minutes (Boil) (1.7 g/L)
50.0 g Centennial Leaf (9.7% Alpha) @ 30 Minutes (Boil) (2.2 g/L)
40.0 g Centennial Pellet (9.7% Alpha) @ 10 Minutes (Boil) (1.7 g/L)
100.0 g Centennial Leaf (9.7% Alpha) @ 0 Days (Dry Hop) (4.3 g/L)
Misc Bill----------------
Single step Infusion at 64°C for 60 Minutes. Fermented at 20°C with - Not a clue yet, Either a high attenuating/flocculating yeast, might even see if i can persuade Dunc to give me a hint as to a yeast to compliment this beasty

I'm a big fan of centennial. I think this could be special

[darkonnis]

I was thinking for an Imperial IPA (double IPA same thing no?) that this would work quite nicely, at about 7.4% it'll suit 330ml bottles and I think with the exception of playing with the hop amounts it could be very nice, debating steeping at 80c with willamette too for some added aroma, any thoughts?

[Steveicky]

I have done quite a few AG Brews but seem to keep returning to a very simple recipe. This is a clone of the Hopback Brewery Summer Lightning, which is light and easy to drink but has a good strong hoopy taste and reasonable ABV. I oringinally bought the ingredients as a recipe kit from BrewUK and was very suprised at the results.

I have an illustrated brewing journal if anyone wants to take a look:
http://brew.x10.mx/Journals/SummerLightningNotes.htm

Recipe:
Pale Malt (EBC 4 or less) - 4.99Kg
Challenger Hops (start of Boil) - 46g
Goldings Hops (Last 10 Min of Boil) - 15g
Goldings Hops (End of Boil) - 9g
Yeast - S-04
Mash Liquor - 14 Litres
Mash Temperature - 66C
Mash Time - 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Sparge Temperature - 77C
Boil Time - 1 Hour 30 Minutes
Batch Volume 23 Litres
Fermentation Temperature - 20C
Expected OG - 1052
Expected FG - 1013

Steve
www.brew.x10.mx