Pro Brewer Resources for Homebrewers

We love the pro brewers who have generously shared their brewing recipes and know-how with the rest of us. Below are some of our favorites…

Recipes

Avery Brewing (Boulder, Colorado) — averybrewing.com Rather than squirrel away homebrew recipes for their beers under a separate header or download, Avery puts those recipes front and center on the main page for each of their beers. Not all recipes are available, but don’t start complaining until you’ve brewed through their entire dictators series (The Czar, The Kaiser, Maharaja), Old Jubilation, White Rascal, Joe’s Pils, and more…

Ballast Point Brewery (San Diego, California) — ballastpoint.com/beer-recipes/ Ballast Point offers recipes for beer, wine, mead, and cider on their website, along with brew supplies and extensive how-to-brew information for extract recipes. Their instructions walk brewers through brewing, sanitizing, bottling, taking hydrometer readings, and more.

Recipes on the site include all-grain and extract recipes for several basic beer styles, as well as a few of their own recipes from their Homework Series. The Homework series includes ingredients and detailed brewing instructions for their Session Saison, Robust Porter, Hoppy Belgian-style Pale Ale, Pumpkin Ale, English-style IPA, Belgian-style Double IPA, and Hoppy Red Ale.

Brewdog (Ellon, Scotland) — brewdog.com/diydog The brewers from Brewdog haven’t forgotten where they started and are happy to share their extensive back catalog in exchange for your email address. The downloadable PDF file includes a wealth of how-to-brew information to get you started. From there, you can brew more than 200 of their all-grain beer recipes, each of which includes everything you could want to know about the beer (the only thing missing is a taste test!).

Jester King (Austin, Texas) — jesterkingbrewery.com/jester-king-homebrew-recipes Jester King loves homebrewers and happily shares a few of its most-requested recipes. You will need to have some brewing know-how to get started—the recipes show percentages for ingredients, which you can tailor to the batch size you’re working with. Instructions for the boil, original gravity, and other need-to-know notes for each recipe have been included.

Recipes on the site are for all-grain brewing only and include Black Metal Imperial Stout, Commercial Suicide Dark Mild, and Wytchmaker Rye IPA.

Madtree Brewing Company (Cincinnati, Ohio) — madtreebrewing.com Madtree shares recipes for all the beers on their site (including their limited seasonals and collaborations). While you won’t find detailed how-to-brew instructions, if you’re already pretty familiar with brewing all-grain recipes, you should be good to go. Their instructions show when each ingredient should be added, and in addition to the 5-gallon batch instructions, they’ve converted the ingredients to percentages so you can tailor to the size of your batch.

Ranger Creek Brewing & Distilling (San Antonio, Texas) — drinkrangercreek.com/san-antonio-brewery/homebrew-recipes/ Ranger Creek is proud of its homebrew heritage and supports the community by sharing six of its recipes. Those who are comfortable with all-grain brewing should be able to jump right in. The recipes include ingredients, boil instructions, and gravity readings. Recipes include their OPA, La Bestia Aimable, Uno Oak-aged Rye OPA, Mission Trail Ale, Mesquite Smoked Porter, and Saison Oscura.

Craft Beer & Brewing (Fort Collins, Colorado) — beerandbrewing.com/pro-recipes To help you find the recipes that professional brewers have shared with us, we’ve created the handy link above. Our archives include fantastic recipes from top breweries such as Ska Brewing, Tree House Brewing, Neshaminy Creek Brewing Co., Perennial Artisan Ales, Jack’s Abby, Funkwerks, La Cumbre, The Rare Barrel, and more.