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I know the old version of BeerSmith had an option to do this but I can't seem to find any new software/web site that has this option. As a new brewer I would like to try my hand at different styles but don't really know much about them.

So along these lines I was given a great Christmas gift of a package of different specialty grains. So I was wondering if anyone here could suggest some styles I could brew given the ingredients I have. Of course leaving out the base malts or extracts and I can always buy more grains and the specific hops needed. Just not sure what grains go into making each style. I was thinking Porter/Stout or Dubbel.

This is what was given...

10oz Briess Black Patent
9oz dingemans biscuit
12oz special roast
8oz special b
7oz chocalate malt
4oz aromatic
13oz smoked malt
4oz Munich
16oz caraMunich 2

Do you have Brewing Classic Styles? it has a recipe for each style; that would be a good place to start.

Here is an idea....kinda a laundry list beer, but I made something similar to this before and it was downright tasty!

For 6 gallons at the end of boil
Pre-boil 7.15 gallons
90 minute boil
OG - 1.070
target FG - 1.015
ABV - 7.2%

Mash at 151

12 lbs 2-Row Brewers Malt; Briess info
0.33 lbs 2-Row Chocolate Malt; Briess info
0.5 lbs American Black Patent info
0.75 lbs Caramunich® (Organic); Weyermann info
0.25 lbs Biscuit Malt (Mout Roost 50); Dingemans info
0.25 lbs Special Roast Malt; Briess info
0.25 lbs Smoked Malt; Weyermann info
0.55 lbs Pale Wheat Malt; Weyermann info
.25 lbs Munich 20L Malt; Briess info

0.5 lbs Maple Syrup info End of Boil
0.5 lbs Maple Syrup info After Fermentation

0.75 oz Warrior® (Pellets, 16.00 %AA) boiled 60 min. info
1 oz Vanguard (Pellets, 5.75 %AA) boiled 10 min. info

Yeast : White Labs WLP007 Dry English Ale info

90 Min Boil


add 8oz of Maple syup at end of boil

add other 8oz of maple syrup to the secondary fermenter

Fermentation at 66F free rise to 70 after 2 days

Should come out to be like a dark brown ale in color.

Hope this helps get you on the right path!!

Looks like I can do this at the Hopville site. I can search by ingredient and it will give me a list of recipes. But thanks for the info.