Try one of our peer reviewed recipes and ingredient kits! Each of these recipes are designed and hand crafted by the staff at KJ.
All kits include the required ingredients and instructions.
Try one of our peer reviewed recipes and ingredient kits! Each of these recipes are designed and hand crafted by the staff at KJ.
All kits include the required ingredients and instructions.
Starter kits are a great way to get started brewing. Our different kits have everything you need to get that first batch cooking.
Starter kits are a great way to get started brewing. Our different kits have everything you need to get that first batch cooking.
December 30, 2019 7 min read
One of the best parts about making beer (aside from drinking it) is the social aspect. Brewers love to swap recipes, discuss what well or horribly wrong in their brews. We thought it would be a fun idea to start a beer conversation here. We're going to make a beer every month here and encourage other brewers to make it as well. In the end, we're hoping we can share our opinions and experiences with the recipe and crowd-source some improvements. The recipes will be easy to make and we will gladly assist new home brewers in the production of these beers. They will all be 5.5 gallons in size. We find that after fermenting and racking a 5.5 gallon batch turns into a standard 5 gallon batch pretty quickly.
At the start of every month we will post the recipe in store, as well as on our website, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. We will also have a set price for the recipe that will include a discount of up to 25%!
This month’s beer is brought to you by Robyn! This is the first beer she has designed and brewed herself. She approached the design process like a new homebrewer (because that is what she is).
First, she asked the rest of the staff here what a good ‘first beer’ should be. We recommended a blonde ale, as they are simple, easy to make, and very approachable for many beer drinkers. With that sorted, it was time to decide on the malt and yeast. Robyn wanted something blonde – but with a bit of a fun malt character. Honey malt was chosen to add a bit of sweetness and body to the beer. Yeast was easy, she wanted something cheap, but effective and fruit forward; S-04 fit the bill perfectly.
Finally, it was time to decide on hops. Robyn does not prefer most of the hops we sell. She finds they smell like ‘dirty feet’. Being the supportive colleagues that we are, we made her smell every kind of hop we sell. At last, Mosaic was the first hop that she actually liked! It had a special fruit character to it, without being overwhelming or too ‘dirty feet’ like. Saaz was selected as a bittering hop, and Mosaic is used as a dry hop to add the special fruit, not stinky feet like flavour to the beer!
The finished beer is perfect for all times of the year. It is light, crisp, refreshing, with a nice subtle fruity hop character to it. It’s low alcohol and low carb, ideal for post-holiday belt tightening too. Cheers to Robyn for this excellent first recipe!
Ingredients
Grains
- Canadian 2-Row x 8.0lbs
- Honey Malt x 1.0lbs
- Acidulated Malt x .2lbs
Hops
- Saaz (3.8% A.A.) - 1 oz @ 20 min
- Saaz (3.8% A.A.) - 1oz @ 15 min
- Mosaic - 1oz - 3 Day Dry Hop
Yeast
- S-04
Extras
- Irish Moss (1 tsp for last 15 minutes of boil)
- Dry Malt Extract (0.4 cup for priming at bottling)