Home Brew Select™
Custom crafted recipes from the owners of
Home Brew Supply, LLC
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.
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HBS001 – Mid-American
Light Lager (American light
lager)
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HBS002 – Missouri
Steamboat Ale (
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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?)
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HBS004 – Red River Ale (Red/Amber ale)
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HBS005 – Honey Nut Cheerio
(English-style honey nut
brown ale)
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HBS006 – Midwest Maerzen (Oktoberfest
Bavarian lager)
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HBS007 – Heartland Heavy
(Scottish 90-pence ale)
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HBS008 – Winter Warmer (Spiced holiday honey-brown ale)
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HBS009 – “Show Me” Stout
(Irish extra stout ‘cause
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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)
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HBS011 – Mid-Continental
Pilsner (Czech pilsner lager)
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HBS012 – Independence
Pale Ale (IPA named after the hometown of Pres. Truman)
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HBS013 – Pony X Porter (English porter named for the Pony Express which began in
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HBS014 – American
Presidents Brown Ale (American
brown ale named for Pres. Washington, Jefferson, and
Adams, all of them homebrewers)
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HBS015 – Autumn Apple (Honey and apple pale ale – Johnny Appleseed
planted apple trees all across the
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HBS016 – Blue Collar
American Amber Ale (
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HBS017 – Horny Hobgoblin
Pumpkin Porter (The perfect
taste for Halloween –
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HBS018 – Peter Cotton Ale
(Traditional
Scandinavian-style Easter ale – a “particularly stout” porter. Rabbits abound
in the woods and meadows of northwest
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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)
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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)
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HBS021 – Armistice Ale (Imperial Stout – for Veterans Day,
originally Armistice Day, celebrating the anniversary of the end of the First
World War)
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HBS022 – Com Mandarin
Chief (Celebrate Presidents
Day with this delightfully crisp and sweet wheat ale flavored with orange
blossom honey)
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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 12 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, 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 April 26, 2012 – six years after the
release of Home Brew Select™ number 23 – Kansas City Koelsch.