Blonde recipe

[JanaM]

Anyone care to share their best all grain blonde recipe? I brew 5 gal batches... Keep in mind I'm a beginner

[LiverDance]

Here's mine, it's pretty simple

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[mumblecrunch]

This may be more of a Cream Ale, but if you're looking for something light that BMC drinkers might like, this fits the bill. I've got it on tap right now and it's been really nice to have in this weather.

http://www.homebrewtalk.com/showthread.php?t=120939" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I wouldn't get too hung up on the hop varieties: bitter with what you have handy; I've used both Tettnanger and Hallertauer for aroma and they're both good. I bet Northern Brewer or Mt. Hood or any other European or Americanized European hop would be fine. Heck, a classic American hop like Cascade probably would be too.

For yeast US-05 is fine, but the Cream Ale blend from White Labs (029 I think) is awesome and I'm guessing a Kolsch yeast would be too.

[JanaM]

Thanks guys!

[joe_r_harvie]

My tried and true blonde is
4.5 kg 2 row
0.2 kg light crystal or caravienne or honey malt...any light specialty grain
0.2 kg wheat at 150 degrees

20 grams Tettnang at boil
20 grams cascade and irish moss at 45 minutes
60 minutes flameout
28 grams cascade flameout. let steep for 15 mins

pitch with ringwood

very similar to picaroons blonde

[MitchK]

the brulosophy recipe uses wlp029 (kolsch) as the yeast for a blonde and they've never steered me wrong (and having used wlp029 it is a really nice well balanced yeast). I might try a hybrid of sorts between Joe's recipe and the Brulosophy one (2 row base, honey malt, bit of wheat, kolsch yeast, and my own twist - moteuka hops I've been meaning to use)

Should be a nice time of year for it as long as you aren't bottle conditioning (with our luck it'll be cold in a month)