Home Brew Select®

Custom crafted recipes from the owners of

Home Brew Supply, LLC

Saint Joseph, Missouri

 

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Each of these homebrew recipes has been brewed several times by Chris and Doug using the finest ingredients available. Taste testing was done by the harshest of critics: their friends… and only the best recipes have survived. Each recipe represents a different style of homebrew beer or ale, but with a Midwestern twist. Try any or all… you will not be disappointed.

 

·        HBS001 – Mid-American Light Lager (American light lager)

·        HBS002 – Missouri Steamboat Ale (California common or “steam” so named because the original California common was Missouri lager that traveled to California via steamboat)

·        HBS003 – Patron Saint of Vienna (Vienna lager – did you know that St. Joseph is the Patron Saint of Vienna as well as the home town of Home Brew Supply, LLC?)

·        HBS004 – Red River Ale (Red/Amber ale)

·        HBS005 – Honey Nut Cheerio (English-style honey nut brown ale)

·        HBS006 – Midwest Maerzen (Oktoberfest Bavarian lager)

·        HBS007 – Heartland Heavy (Scottish 90-pence ale)

·        HBS008 – Winter Warmer (Spiced holiday honey-brown ale)

·        HBS009 – “Show Me” Stout (Irish extra stout ‘cause Missouri is the “show me” state)

·        HBS010 – Wagon Wheel Wheat (German wheat ale – Conestoga wagons manufactured by German immigrants and their descendants in Lancaster, PA crossed Missouri and Kansas en route to the promise of gold and land in the west)

·        HBS011 – Mid-Continental Pilsner (Czech pilsner lager)

·        HBS012 – Independence Pale Ale (IPA named after the hometown of Pres. Truman)

·        HBS013 – Pony X Porter (English porter named for the Pony Express which began in Saint Joseph)

·        HBS014 – American Presidents Brown Ale (American brown ale named for Pres. Washington, Jefferson, and Adams, all of them homebrewers)

·        HBS015 – Autumn Apple (Honey and apple pale ale – Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees all across the Midwest)

·        HBS016 – Blue Collar American Amber Ale (Midwest USA was settled by cowboys, farmers, stock herders, and hundreds of workers in service and support industry)

·        HBS017 – Horny Hobgoblin Pumpkin Porter (The perfect taste for Halloween – St. Joseph is one of the most haunted towns in the Midwest)

·        HBS018 – Peter Cotton Ale (Traditional Scandinavian-style Easter ale – a “particularly stout” porter. Rabbits abound in the woods and meadows of northwest Missouri)

·        HBS019 – Brother Bacchus’ Indulgence (A “tax time” trippel. Midwestern workers pay an average of 31% of their income in taxes. This indulgence is 9% ABV)

·        HBS020 – At Least I’m Not… (Extra Special Bitter – our first all grain recipe. Yes, there is a story behind the name, but I have to be drinking it to tell it)

·        HBS021 – Armistice Ale (Imperial Stout – for Veterans Day, originally Armistice Day, celebrating the anniversary of the end of the First World War)

·        HBS022 – Com Mandarin Chief (Celebrate Presidents Day with this delightfully crisp and sweet wheat ale flavored with orange blossom honey)

·        HBS023 – Kansas City Koelsch (Adapted from the AHA Koelsch style book; only our second all-grain release)

 

If you’ve read down this far, you might really be into homebrew or enjoy homebrewing as a hobby… but you’re out of luck. We’ve released 23 Home Brew Select® recipes to date. We carefully develop these recipes over time, then brew each one, allow it to condition in both bottle and keg, and drink the finished homebrew with a large group of our friends. If there are any changes to be made, we adjust the recipe and start over. Because the brewing and conditioning take so long, it’s sometimes up to a year of home brewing before we are satisfied that the homebrew is worthy of the name Home Brew Select®. We began releasing the Home Brew Select® line more than 6 years ago. Our first recipe was a Budweiser® clone homebrew that we developed to brew in time for Sup&r B0vvl Sunday. It was a seasonal brew, but it led to the development of our more permanent Home Brew Select® 001 recipe, Mid-American Light Lager. Since then, we’ve home brewed more than four hundred and fifty batches of home brew using nearly seven dozen homebrew recipes. The twenty-three Home Brew Select® recipes listed above have made the cut. Rest assured however, that we will continue to brew our brains out to bring you more homebrew favorites – approximately two new Home Brew Select® recipes every year with an occasional seasonal homebrew special thrown in for good measure.

 

If you have any suggestions for a beer style you’d like to see, or have a homebrew recipe you’d like us to evaluate, please email me at info@thehomebrewstore.com with any suggestions. This page is current as of September 6, 2006 – five months after the release of Home Brew Select® number 23 – Kansas City Koelsch.