DIY DOG
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Martin and I (James) started home-brewing back in 2005. We could not find any beers we wanted to drink in the UK, so decided the best thing to do was to brew our own. Armed with some very old Cascade hops and a desire to recreate Sierra Nevada Pale Ale, our brewing adventure started.
In 2007, we got a bank loan, bought some second hand equipment and turned our home-brewing hobby into our job as BrewDog officially came howling into the world. Our original brewery in Fraserburgh was basically just a giant home-brewing set up with plastic water tanks and completely manual controls.
Many of the classic BrewDog beers were developed during our home-brewing days, and we still use a 50L system to develop new beers and new recipes here at BrewDog. Home-brewing is very much ingrained in our DNA at BrewDog as so many of the world’s great craft breweries can trace their origins back to home-brewing.
With DIY Dog we wanted to do something that has never been done before as well as paying tribute to our home-brewing roots. We wanted to take all of our recipes, every single last one, and give them all away for free, to the amazing global home-brewing community.
Oh, and if you are from one of the global beer mega corporations and you are reading this, your computer will spontaneously combust, James Bond style, any second now. So leave the building immediately and seriously consider your life choices.
A near decade-long anthology of BrewDog recipes, scaled down to make it easier to follow for those wanting to have a go at home (or in chilly outbuildings nearby). DIY Dog is only available in digital format and can be downloaded here – but homebrew-loving Equity Punks will want to keep an eye on the blog tomorrow for an extra special edition…!
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Australia,
Many thanks!
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Can you please add your best beer ever to the book - "There is no santa"
Translate this book into Portuguese / Brazilian and a lot of Brazilian enthusiasts will buy :D
Cheers from Brazil
need to take a month off work now.... yes!
Derek - Have you tried Vagabond Pale Ale? It's our gluten-free beer and it is waaaay more tasty that Fosters ;)
Scott - 'FV' means fermentation vessel, so any ingredient stated as FV means it is added post-fermentation to take on the flavours (oak chips, fruit etc) at that final stage of the process
You are blinking MAGEEEEEEC
cheers and may yous aliwise brew
I have a question: what drives the timing of your hop additions in the recipe formulation? For example, in your single hop beers, you usually add a boil addition and a later addition except for the Citra edition that also has a middle addition. Why that difference? What are the elements that you are looking to add to the beer through the middle addition?
Thank you very much and cheers!
Can anyone suggest a recipe with low level malt content
Thanks
First up #207 cant wait ????
I like your beers.
Brew at home and work in a big brewery in germany ( I dont think they brew your recipes. lol )
Vlaams Hobbybrouw Forum (Flemish Homebrew Forum)
I will remember to credit Brewdog if I do get to fulfill the unlikely dream of opening my own microbrewery in Singapore
You, however didnt ask but just went ahead and did it anyway. A very very welcome gift to the community that you grew from and are very much respected by. An inspiration to us all, yada yada.. the usual stuff.
I look forwards to seeing these pop up on brew-sharing sites and/or BeerXML collections and see where people took these recipes!
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Staart
Thanks a lot! Can not wait until I have tried to make one of these recipes.
I think that you may have solved my search for my next AG brew!
Well done and thanks.
Bill
Thought I would start on the Punk IPA this weekend. However Beersmith dosnt agree with EBC and IBU for your given Malt bills and Hop bills. I will assume that the IBUs and EBC at the top of the recipe are right and adjust darker malts up to meet the EBC and adjust HOPS downwards to reach stated IBUs.
Then again i dont know the EBC of your Caramalt and IBUs of the individual hops. But the difference is big so expect some scaling issues in the quantities.
Ive never stuck 190 grams of dry hops in 20 Litres of 5.5% beer before lol! That's total madness. :)
No wonder there is a bloody shortage and I can see brewery "hop wars" starting over the last bale of Simcoe/Citra etc.
Well done guys a real (open)source of inspiration
Respect
Strange Brewery (it's only homebrew at the moment)
Richard
GRACIAS!!!
Gonna browse this on the train home. Hopefully there's some Brew Dogs collaborations on there from the TV show.
You guys rock!!
This is a gift from the beer gods!! Life is good!!
Thanks for this amazing gift.
Keep up the good work!
Thank you from the USA.
Thank you from the USA.
I can also help with local expertise on boiler care and cleaners/sanitizers. Keep sharing.
Respect!
Would be nice with a circa IBU for the beers, as you said, hops don't always come out identical.
A total IBU on the left side under ABV, and a remark next to bittering hops with IBU, and we can have a lot of fun with everything else :D
Start - Mid - End makes it fun for the hop timings, lots of stuff too do :D
#13 Cult Lager
You guys have mixed OG and FG :D
(But I'm missing the Paradox Isle Of Arran...)
Have you left the world any hops?
... you rock!
CHEERS FROM BRAZIL!!
Every day that passes I am more a fan of you!
Tks for de oppotunity!
Seriously: I'm all teary now. Stunts like this prove that the world ain't such a shitty place after all.
A glass then, to beer and her friends!
Resolves heaps of recipe tinkering. We're going to get stuck into brewing 'Elvis Juice' on Sunday.
Did notice the absence of Ghost Deer, any chance of that making a comeback?
Also looking forward to 'The Fix' opening next door. Can't wait to meet the beery neighbours ;)
Seriously, big thank you, this is amazing! Long live Brewdog!
Thank you !!!!!
Start = T-60
Middle = T-30
End = Knockout
Or are you leaving some of the details to us. And that's fine if you are....I'm just so grateful that you've shared this with everyone.
Forgive my English I am Brazilian
I drank one of the first Punk IPA batches back in 2007!! I remember that moment as the turning point for my beer geek illness :D .D :D (subsequently turned in HB-illness!!!!!!!!!)
Your recipes are really inspiring, thanks, thanks, thanks!!!
Cheers from Genoa, Italy
Although Cocoa Psycho EBC 30??????
Thanks for the recommendation, looks like a cool book, will buy it!
Of to brew tomorrow, couldn't have arrived at a more opportune moment
No words to describe what this move will make for the beer community and recepies that will come from it.
I'm just starting my first batches with a friend and will surely use these recipes as a source and inspiration.
Cheers from Argentina!
But one question, how do you guys dry hop at such high levels, even with fairly low ABV beers, without the beer becoming overly astringent/grassy?
A decade from now a new generation of homebrewers will have turned pro and be turning out great tasting beers because they learned their craft by brewing your recipes.
Bravo, Brewdog - you've made a great investment in the world of beer for future generations.
Rob - Get hold of the 'water' edition of the Brewing Elements series, written by John Palmer and Colin Kaminski. That will give you a better baseline from which to build your homebrews!
Back in 2010 i started homebrewing because i wanted to have unlimited amounts of fresh Hardcore IPA at home. Needless to say that was a pipedream, and years later i still need to tweak and improve my processes. Maybe now i will be able to fulfill that dream. :)
So my question would be about water: apart from setting the mash ph to 5.2 do you guys add any minerals to your brewing water? (like gypsum, or calcium chloride)
What kind of water profile you guys use for your hoppy beers? (like Punk IPA or Jackhammer)
In terms of Ca, Mg, SO4, Cl and HCO3/CaCO3.
I still can't achieve your level of clean, crisp bitterness without an astrinent, earthy aftertaste and i think the key could be treating my brewing water better. (sometimes even my 50 IBU beers taste more bitter (even with residual sugars, crystal malts etc.) than your 200 IBU Jackhammer but its a wrong kind of bitterness)
I hope my request in the EFP forum might have been a catalyst in some small way!
While only a lowly extract brewer, I think I'll have a stab at adapting a few of these.
That is until I find the money to upgrade to all-grain gear.
Cheers!
This is why people get so passionate about Brewdog, you do what you do and we love you for it!
Thank you Brewdog.
Thank you so much for sharing your recipes with us budding home brewers, may the karmah gods smile upon you in this life and the next.
If you made the pdf into a book, I would order one the same day
Game changer...
*so happy* :)