The Muntons craft your own range has been mentioned on here before but not ant any great length other than they exist.
They look like they provide an easy way for Kit/Extract brewers to design recipies outside of the standard box kits and develope something of their own design.
There is also the recipie designer https://homebrew.muntons.com/ which helps put basic recipies together suggesting ingredients to make certain beer types.
Malt Millers have also done a review, coming up with 2 different recipies of their own which seemed to work well and they claimed to be pleased with the results. (I have no affiliation to them although do purchase from them.)
Now, I am not sure I am ever going to have the time to go AG any time soon but this looks like I will be able experiment coming up with bespoke beers of my own design.
So I was thinking if anyone has used these to make their own recipies or even AG brewers could suggest recipies based on their experience.
I have recently wanted to see if I could recreate Verdant Lightbulb IPA and so I came up with this, taking direction from the AG recipies discussed on this forum.
Muntons Craft Your Own - Maris Otter Light Extract - 1.5kg
Muntons Craft Your Own - Vienna Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Muntons Craft Your Own - Oat Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Hallertauer Magnum - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet 6gms
Simcoe T90 Pellets 100 gms
Centennial - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets 60gms
LALBREW® VERDANT IPA Dried Yeast 11g
I havent yet brewed this. Have all the incredients sat on my shelf currently but I want to try to recreate some of the Mash hopping stuff. So my planned method is:
Bring 2ltrs of water to a boil, add half a tin of one of the LMEs add the Magnum hops and boil for 20 mins.
Turn of the heat and add 20gms each of Simcoe and Centenial. Allow to cool for 45 mins
Strain the wort into the FV.
Add the remaining LME ingredients and water up to 20ish Ltrs. Aiming for an SG of 1.045-1.050. ABV 4.5-5%
Add Harris Clear brew.
Pitch Yeast at 22-23C.
Brew in the brewfridge at around 20-21C.
Add the remaining hops after 4-5 days to dry hop.
The brew will be bottled so will add 1/2 tspn sugar to 500ml bottle.
Fingers crossed this turns out something that resembles Lightbulb. Even if it doesn't hopefully it will taste great. Where I have only used half a tim of LME i plan to freeze the rest to use in a recipie later.
Intersted in thoughts on this and any other suggestions people may have.
They look like they provide an easy way for Kit/Extract brewers to design recipies outside of the standard box kits and develope something of their own design.
There is also the recipie designer https://homebrew.muntons.com/ which helps put basic recipies together suggesting ingredients to make certain beer types.
Malt Millers have also done a review, coming up with 2 different recipies of their own which seemed to work well and they claimed to be pleased with the results. (I have no affiliation to them although do purchase from them.)
Now, I am not sure I am ever going to have the time to go AG any time soon but this looks like I will be able experiment coming up with bespoke beers of my own design.
So I was thinking if anyone has used these to make their own recipies or even AG brewers could suggest recipies based on their experience.
I have recently wanted to see if I could recreate Verdant Lightbulb IPA and so I came up with this, taking direction from the AG recipies discussed on this forum.
Muntons Craft Your Own - Maris Otter Light Extract - 1.5kg
Muntons Craft Your Own - Vienna Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Muntons Craft Your Own - Oat Extract - .75kg (Half tin)
Hallertauer Magnum - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellet 6gms
Simcoe T90 Pellets 100 gms
Centennial - BarthHaas® Pure Hop Pellets 60gms
LALBREW® VERDANT IPA Dried Yeast 11g
I havent yet brewed this. Have all the incredients sat on my shelf currently but I want to try to recreate some of the Mash hopping stuff. So my planned method is:
Bring 2ltrs of water to a boil, add half a tin of one of the LMEs add the Magnum hops and boil for 20 mins.
Turn of the heat and add 20gms each of Simcoe and Centenial. Allow to cool for 45 mins
Strain the wort into the FV.
Add the remaining LME ingredients and water up to 20ish Ltrs. Aiming for an SG of 1.045-1.050. ABV 4.5-5%
Add Harris Clear brew.
Pitch Yeast at 22-23C.
Brew in the brewfridge at around 20-21C.
Add the remaining hops after 4-5 days to dry hop.
The brew will be bottled so will add 1/2 tspn sugar to 500ml bottle.
Fingers crossed this turns out something that resembles Lightbulb. Even if it doesn't hopefully it will taste great. Where I have only used half a tim of LME i plan to freeze the rest to use in a recipie later.
Intersted in thoughts on this and any other suggestions people may have.
