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2024 Great American Beer Festival® Pro-Am Competition Winners Announced
Denver, Colo. • Oct. 10, 2024 – The winners of the 2024 Great American Beer Festival® (GABF®) Pro-Am competition were announced at the GABF awards ceremony on Oct. 10 in Denver, Colo.
Presented by the Brewers Association (BA), GABF is the nation’s largest professional beer competition and the premier symbol of brewing excellence. The Pro-Am competition is an opportunity for commercial breweries to partner with homebrewers to brew a special beer and vie for top honors.
Pro-Am beers are based on a homebrew recipe from American Homebrewers Association (AHA) members who have won an award in an AHA/BJCP sanctioned competition.… Read the rest “2024 Great American Beer Festival® Pro-Am Competition Winners Announced”
Sable Porter (2023 version)
Single infusion mash at 155°F (68°C) for 60 min., targeting a mash pH of 5.4. Mash out at 167°F (76°C) for 10 min. Lauter. Boil 60 min., adding hops as indicated. Chill, aerate and pitch yeast at 63°F (17°C). After 10–14 days (or when fully attenuated), cold crash for 3 days at 35°F (2°C). Force carbonate at 2.4 vol. (4.8 g/L) CO2. Cellar 2–6 months (longer tends to be better).
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650+ Winning Recipes from the National Homebrew Competition
The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) hosted the first annual National Homebrew Competition (NHC) in 1979. NHC has since grown into the premier homebrewing competition, awarding medals in dozens of categories related to homemade beer, mead, and cider.
Browse the 650+ medal-winning homebrew recipes from the National Homebrew Competition Final Round. Looking for even more homebrew recipes? Check out our Homebrew Recipe Library, with over 1,400 beer, mead, and cider recipes.
New to homebrewing? We’re here to help!
If you’re gearing up for your first homebrew experience, might we suggest The Easy Guide to Homebrewing.… Read the rest “650+ Winning Recipes from the National Homebrew Competition”
3 Day Berliner Weisse
Even though the pitch rate is low, I like to create a small starter in order to ensure my yeast has high viability and vitality.
Mash all grains (except the acidulated malt) at 152°F at 1.33 qts/lb. Hold for 45 min and then add the acidulated malt and enough water to keep the water-to-grain ratio. Hold for 45 more minutes and then sparge with 168°F (75.6°C) water. These two steps take more time, but they will allow for the pH drop without affecting conversion.
Boil for 1 hour, adding the hops, bitter orange peel, and Whirlfloc at the indicated times.… Read the rest “3 Day Berliner Weisse”
Zecks Panther Dunkles Bock
Mash all grains except Carafa III: Protein rest at 127°F (53°C) for 20 min., then raise to 154°F (68°C) for 60 min. Remove a third of thick mash to a second vessel and perform a decoction. While decoction is coming to temperature, add the Carafa III to the main mash. After a 15- to 20-minute decoction, add that back to the main mash and proceed to 169°F (76°C) for mashout. Proceed with a 75-minute boil, adding additions as above. Cool and transfer to fermentation vessel. Oxygenate for 1 minute, then pitch yeast at 51°F (11°C).… Read the rest “Zecks Panther Dunkles Bock”
22 Smoked Beer Recipes You Can Brew at Home
Browse through 22 classic and specialty smoked beer recipes. All of these homebrew recipes are tried-and-true, including National Homebrew Competition medal-winners!
Beer Judge Certification Program (BJCP) style description: A smoke-enhanced beer showing good balance between the smoke and beer character, while remaining pleasant to drink. Balance in the use of smoke, hops and malt character is exhibited by the better examples. A Specialty Smoked Beer is either a smoked beer based on something other than a Classic Style, or any type of smoked beer with additional ingredients (fruits, vegetables, spices) or processes employed that transform the beer into something more unique.… Read the rest “22 Smoked Beer Recipes You Can Brew at Home”
Announcing the New and Improved American Homebrewers Association Forum
The American Homebrewers Association (AHA) Forum is an essential pillar of the homebrewing community. It provides an opportunity for homebrewers to ask questions, share expertise, make connections, and encourage each other to continue innovating.
To further support the growth of our online community, we have upgraded our forum to the Discourse platform. An AHA membership is not required to join the community.
What’s New?
On the Discourse platform AHA Forum users can expect improved search tools, seamless incorporation of images and videos, improved post categories and topics, a mobile-friendly interface, enhanced spam protection, and more.… Read the rest “Announcing the New and Improved American Homebrewers Association Forum”
Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary IPA
The 2024 Learn to Homebrew Day (Nov. 2) official homebrew recipe comes courtesy of Rick Morales and the Maltose Falcons homebrew club of California. The Maltose Falcons are the country’s oldest homebrew club and this commemorative IPA recipe is in celebration of their 50th anniversary.
Ingredients:
FERMENTABLES
13 lb. (5.9 kg) pale 2-row malt (89.7%)
1 lb. (454 g) 10°L Munich malt (6.9%)
8 oz. (227 g) dextrin malt (3.4%)
HOPS
0.5 oz. (14 g) Centennial, 10% a.a. (first wort hop)
0.5 oz. (14 g) Centennial, 10% a.a. (60 min)
0.5 oz.… Read the rest “Maltose Falcons 50th Anniversary IPA”