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Extract w/ grain Kits

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Extract kits; These kits contain a small amount of cracked grain (8-12 ounces) with a small grain bag, canned or dry malt extract, pre weighed hops, priming sugar or dry malt, caps and yeast (may be dry or Liquid) with full instructions. This is a great kit for the new and intermediate brewer. Requires a 2-1/2 Gallon boil and top up to 5 gallons with water to complete the recipe.

 

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Last Up-Date 012-2011

Extract Kit      This is a Great Kit for the Beginner to Intermediate Brewer

Includes: All Hops, Malt and Yeast ingredients for your recipe, 55 caps, primer, hop & or grain bags and a Complete Instruction sheet. Create a beer from it's raw beginning. Smell the hops and malt as they boil to refinement.

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20403  Bock Style -Traditional German 32.00
20405  Canadian Light Lager Style 33.00
20407  California Common  (Steam Beer Style) 32.00
20409  Cerveza ( Mexican Style ) Light 32.00
20411  Continental Pilsner.. 32.00
20413  Cream Ale ... 32.00
20415  Classic Pale Ale (Move over 'Bass Ale') 34.99
20417  English Nut Brown Ale... 33.99
20419  English ESB - Extra Special Bitter 34.99
20421  English Style IPA - Hoppy Pale Ale 34.99
20423  Honey Mild Ale 32.00
20425  English Smooth Ale -( Boddingtons Style ) 32.00
20427  German Oktoberfest Style... 33.50
20428  Old Imperial Stout ( U.S. Russian Stout Style) OG 1.092 / 76 IBU 55.00
20429  Irish Stout ( Guinness Clone) 34.99
20430  English Milk Stout 39.80
20431  Dutch Lager Style ( Grolsch Style) 33.00
20433  Big Sky Amber Ale...( Big American Hops - 40 IBU) 35.99
20435  Red Red Ale...( Killian's Clone) 33.50
20437  Amber Ale 33.50
20439  Brown Porter... 33.00
20441  Munich Dunkel Style 35.50
20443  South of the Border Amber Ale (Dos Equis Style) 33.00
20444  Roller Mill Oat Mill Stout  (P/M) 30.50
20447  West Coast Hopped Pale Ale (Sierra Nevada Clone) 33.99
20449  Wheat (American Style)  Add A Flavorings to your Wheat Beer 33.00
20451  Bavarian Style Hefeweizen  (with German Munich yeast) 34.99
20453  Scottish Ale 80 Shilling (wee heavy) 36.00
20455  Scottish Ale 60 Shilling (Import style)                       sp 34.00
20457  Belgian Wit Style ( Sweet White) 34.00
20477  Irish Red - (Smithwicks Clone) 41.00
20479  Honey Wheat 34.00
20481

 Summer Wheat (light with a hint of citrus)

 34.00
20483  German Dunkelweizen (Munich & Wheat makes this Dark Traditional) 35.30
20485  Starry Pale Ale ( US Pale Ale @ 4-1/2% and 23 IBU but big in flavor) 36.60
20487  Rye Ale ( Rye with a hint of toast) 30.40
20489   Belgian Pale Ale (Golden and Traditional) 35.20
20491    
20493    
204077

 Melt the Ice English Strong Ale Best aged 6-8 months

49.99
204079  American Imperial Pale Ale 87+ IBU 43.24
204081

Rauchbier ( Smoked Beer) This beer will bring out the Bar-B-Q in Summer. Bring on the ribs, the Bar B Q chicken.  Marinate the fish. Enjoy

 

 $ 35.99

 
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    'RED RED Ale Wheat' Just in time for Valentines Day, Smooth Red Ale  $34.00
 

 

  

 

 

 

 

 

California Common: (Steam Beer Style) In the Shadow of Anchor Steam

 

Continental Pilsner Style: Smooth light malt flavor with a low hop balance. This is a

anytime favorite.

Cream Ale: Straw in color with a light malt flavor, medium body an easy hop finish flavor

 

Classic English Pale Ale: Move over Bass Ale. Our English Ale has English Great malt flavor and Hop balance. Amber in color, this is a real crowd pleaser.

Dutch Lager Style: In the shadow of the Famous Grolsch Dutch Lager. Using German hops. And fermented as an ale with the Nottingham Yeast.

End Of the Line Porter  Classic English Porter smooth in flavor and malt.

English Nut Brown Ale: English malt and hops blend with a slight nutty flavor for a mellow brown ale.

 

English Style IPA: (Indian Pale Ale); No skimping on the hops her. Great English and Amber malts with big English Dry hop flavor.

English Smooth Ale: Light in body with just the right blend of malt and hops to have a smooth and creamy finish.

 

Honey Mild Ale: The smooth finish and aroma of honey. Great English hops makes this beer a real hit.

 

German Oktoberfest Style: This Great beer is easy to enjoy all year long. Copper in color, with slightly toasted and light Carmel malt flavor. Balanced with of course German Hops.

 

Irish Stout: Smooth finish Copied from the famous 'Guinness Irish Stout' style.

 

Big Sky Amber Ale: Big American hopped beer, with a slight Carmel but full flavor. (39 IBU)

 

Brown Porter: Sweet Malt Flavor with Classic English hop bitterness, the flavor of a traditional Porter.

 

South of the Border Amber Ale: ( Dos Equis Style) Deep Amber in color and smooth in flavor. Finishes with just a slight hop aroma.

 

Red Red Ale: Toasted malt and German Carmel malt gives this beer it's Red Color. Smooth low hop finish.

 

West Coast Hopped Pale Ale: If you like the Flavor of Cascade Hops, then you will love this Ale. Amber color with the smooth a spicy flavor and big finish from Cascade Hops.

 

Wheat (American Style): Smooth Wheat flavor and low hops. Add a flavoring and create you own Beer. Great with Apricot, Cherry, Blackberry

 

Bavarian Style Hefe-Weizen: Slightly Sweet Wheat flavor with the Banana Clove Aroma and finish. Includes Hefeweizen Liquid Yeast

Belgian Style Wit: Belgian White made with Sweet Orange Peel and Coriander.

English Strong Ale: Traditional strong ale style fit between a Strong Porter and English Bitter or closer to a lower gravity English Barley wine. Smooth creamy mouth feel from the malty sweetness and even balance of hop bitterness. Dark reddish in color with alcohol in the 6-7 % range. ( Examples; Harvey's Elizabethan Ale, Fullers 1845, and Sam Smith's Winter Welcome )

Melt the Ice Strong Ale This traditional strong ale style fits between a Strong Porter and English Bitter or closer to a lower gravity Barley Wine. Smooth creamy mouth feel from the malty sweetness and an even balance of hop bitterness. Dark reddish in color with alcohol in the 6-7% range. (Examples: Harvey's Elizabethan Ale, Fullers 1845, and Sam Smiths Winter Welcome)

 American Imperial Pale Ale 90 IBU: Careful these hops will com out and talk to you. Big hops at the start and even bigger finish. Move over Dog Fish.

 

 

Four basic brewing techniques for the Home Brewer.

 
    1)  'Pre-Blended Malt', This is pre-made base malt. The barley has been converted from starch to fermentable sugar. These extracts will already have the hops cooked in and specialty grain flavor and color added. These malts do not require cooking, then malt house or brewery has done this step. You can add to these pre-blended malts to create a beer to your taste. The beer is very good for the beginning brewer with no skill level.
    2) 'Extract' recipes,  Most base malt extracts are just that, "Base malt" only, and they do require cooking.
An extract kit will have the base malt with the hops (1-4) and the specialty grains (normally only 3/4 Lb. )separate. The brewer will steep the small amount of grain and then cook the base malt and hops into a recipe style picked. Most extract recipes will be 2 gallons to 2-1/2 gallons boil for an hour and easy cooled in an kitchen sink. These recipes really let the brewer learn about all the ingredients and experience the ground level of craft brewing. It is very easy to create a recipe of your own using this technique very quickly. These types of recipes are relatively easy and required little or no previous skill. (if you can boil water)
 
    3) 'Partial Mash'  recipes, Will have the base malt extract with the specialty grains and hops that will need to be cooked. But, not all the base malt is from extract. A portion of the base malt is in grain form. A recipe may have 3-5 pounds of grain along with the specialty grain. The base grain malt must then be 'Mashed' to convert the starch to sugars, then slowly rinsed. Because the amount of grain is larger, a large container is needed for the grain. This is called a 'Mash Tun'. A small mash tun is used for this method. These two procedures can take up to or more than two hours. Then the extract malt is added to the grain water and the boil is started.  Most 'Partial Mash' recipes can be done in the same size brew kettle as the extract recipes. Thus 'Partial Mash is still, stove top. Most 'Partial Mash' recipes will be 2-1/2 gal to 3 gallons boil and easy cooled in an kitchen sink.
    These types of recipes require a little more time and a little more equipment. The results in Partial Mash brewing is the ability to create a beer closer to your style. A more defined taste of the malts and hops are also present.
 
    4) 'All Grain' recipes, are just as the name says, 'All Grain'. This means that the complete base malt comes from the grain and 90-95 % of the brewing sugars come from the grain. Because the amount of grain is much larger (10-18 pounds) the size of the container is much larger to do the mash.  The mash tun may be 5 to 10 gallons in size. Also, because we are not using extract and all the sugars are being removed from the grains, the boil is larger. Most all 5 gallon 'All Grain' recipes for will start at 6 to 6-1/2 gallons. A much larger brew kettle is needed at 8 to 10 gallons for an 5 gallon batch. All grain brewing requires a skill level, that may not be for all brewers.
     Although the equipment and time for "All Grain" brewing is a much higher skill level. The results in 'All Grain' brewing is the ability to create a beer to style, the ability to more closely define the taste of the malts and copy exactly or almost exactly a beer as it was made in a brewery.   
 
 
     To create a beer with a distingue flavor from Extract Brewing and Partial Mash Brewing is not only satisfying, but will far exceed your expectations about 'Craft beer home brewing'.

 

 

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