Home Brew Beer Recipe – Christmas Ale Recipe

By Super

Homemade Beer
This Christmas can be even more cooler with the tasty “Home brew" beer recipe. This Homemade beer Recipe called “Dark Ale" can be easily made in your home with very little ingredients. Christmas cannot be complete without Christmas Ale recipes so take a look at how to make the traditional home brew beer recipe.

Dark Ale – Home Brew Beer Recipe For Christmas

Ingredients:

1.1.92kg pale malt extract

2.100g crystal malt or caramel malt (to convert starch to sugar)

3.40g chocolate malt (for the dark color)

4.50g Cara red grain

5.50g Maris Otter grains (will help in producing low nitrogen levels)

6.12 g Progress hops (for a fruity aroma)

7.7 g Styrian Golding hops (for an old traditional aroma)

8.This homemade brew makes up a batch of 2 gallons


Method:

1.Start extracting or steeping all malt grains for 25 mins in water at 62C, then boil the grains and add progress and some styrian hops. Boil for 50 minutes.

2.After Boiling the mixture add some more of Styrian hops and again heat it for 20 mins.

3.Add the mixture to the fermenting vessel and set aside to cool, dilute the mixture upto 2 gallons.

4.Once the mixture is cool add the ale yeast and stir well. The home brew beer recipe will be ready after 3 weeks.

Impress your family and friends this Christmas 2010 with your personal home brews and do let us know about how it tastes.

Nutritional Facts:

For 1 bottle beer – 360 g

Calories – 153, Sodium- 14 mg, total carbohydrates – 12.6g, protein – 1.6 g