Brewing your first batch
There's (No) Trouble Brewin' (an American-Style Microbrewed Pale Ale)
Batch No. 2: Adding grain
Awesome Aussie Amber Ale
Batch No. 3: Beyond kits
Brawny-Tawny India Pale Ale

Make your winter warmer
U.S. microbreweries have popularized strong winter beers in recent years, but the tradition if firmly rooted in beer history. Here's a look back, plus plenty of recipes you can make yourself.

Real Ale Homebrew winners

The first American beer festival dedicated to real ale was held Oct. 4-5, 1996 in Chicago and sponsored by the Craft Beer Institute, Chicago Beer Society and Goose Island Brewing Co. The festival included a homebrew competition, and here are the winning recipes.
Barley Wine: Barley Wine
Strong Bitter: Lute Stomp Ale
Stout: Variation on "Black Bart's Tooth and Nail Stout"
Old Ale: Spiney Norman's Old Ale
Porter: Charlier's Imperial Porter
Special Bitter: Baa Sheep Best Bitter

Ray's favorite recipes

Brewing Editor Ray Daniels has been making award winning homebrews for many years. In this section he shares his best recipes for extract and all-grain brewers alike.

Hook, Line and Sinker Strong Ale George Street Ale Diversey Lager Blackhawk Porter Revolutionary India Pale Ale

Penny Ante Pilsener Dangerously Delicious Dunkel Weizen Perfect Pilsener Old Ogden's Spiced Ale My German Sweetheart Blond Bock

Making changes

One way to come up with a recipe for beer is to start from scratch, but other times you may want to modify a recipe that has already proven itself.

More recipes on the way

In the coming weeks, we'll be adding more award-winning recipes from homebrewing competitions, plus other recipes of interest. Feel free to submit your own recipes, because we might just use them here. Mail your recipes to breweditor@allaboutbeer.com.