BIAB recipe's & Ingredients

[talltwits]

Hi everyone,

I'm relatively new to home brewing and even newer to BIAB. I have previously done 3 beginners kits and moved swiftly on to BIAB.

For my first BIAB i done a simple smash recipe and ended up with a 10 litre batch currently in my FV.

I'm looking to progress and do something different. Like a wheat beer or a grimbergen clone. Where do you guys find the recipes, is there a best place or do you have a favourite place? Previously I've just typed it into Google but with my limited experience I don't know when I see a good recipe. I have a 19 litre and use the BIABacus spreadsheet to convert recipes to fit into my smallish pot.

Any suggestions?

Also, I stay in Scotland. There is a LHBS relatively nearby to where I stay. I've seen on foreign forums, US and Oz, that they sometimes buy ingredients online. Are there any good UK website for this?

Thanks for
Your help.

 

[MyQul]

Normally what I do is either follow recipes from Greg Hughes book as is or adapt and tweek them. His book has one or two recipes for most of the major styles.

Greg Hughes how to brew beer can be bought for about £5 from Amazon. It's a fantastic book

Getter brewed or home brew company give us 5% discount you can find the codes here - http://www.thehomebrewforum.co.uk/forumdisplay.php?f=20

 

[Covrich]

I do what MyQul does.. look at his recipes.. I may copy or based mine on his (I may do something different but you get the idea).. I also google some recipes or look for some here for example of styles you like.. then when you have an idea of a composition of a style you can build one up based on those recipes..

Greg Hughes recipes are great and stright forward and very solid, you could of course tweek them a little if you wanted.

 

[rats_eyes]

I started by finding a book that dealt with styles of beer that I like, then trying a few out. As time goes on the contribution that different ingredients and methods make will make more sense.

The books I started with were Charlie Papazian's "joy of homebrewing" and Graham Wheeler's "brew your own British real ale".

 

[talltwits]

That's ideal guys thanks very much! I'll certainly give them a look! I feel like I need somewhere to start if that makes sense. Got my first BIAB done so that I was happy with the process etc etc. So now I need somewhere to go to further my experience so thanks for that.

Oh and just to confirm is it Greg Hughes - Home Brew Beer.

 

[MyQul]

That's ideal guys thanks very much! I'll certainly give them a look! I feel like I need somewhere to start if that makes sense. Got my first BIAB done so that I was happy with the process etc etc. So now I need somewhere to go to further my experience so thanks for that.

Oh and just to confirm is it Greg Hughes - Home Brew Beer.

Yeah. This one

https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1409331768/?tag=skimlinks_replacement-20

 

[Slid]

That's ideal guys thanks very much! I'll certainly give them a look! I feel like I need somewhere to start if that makes sense. Got my first BIAB done so that I was happy with the process etc etc. So now I need somewhere to go to further my experience so thanks for that.

Oh and just to confirm is it Greg Hughes - Home Brew Beer.

Another recommendation from me on the value of these recipes. Especially the unfashionable, quintessentially English ones like Brown Porter, ESB, Northern Brown and Old Ale. Once you have followed a few of these, you can build up an understanding of the ingredients, what they bring and how to connect between what you like in your beer and how to replicate it.