Directory of Recipes

Below is a listing of the beer categories as determined by the BJCP 2004 Guidelines. You may view all recipes or the recipes in a given category or just the recipes for that style.

If you would like to submit a recipe, please send it to recipes@brew-monkey.com in BeerXML and/or BSM format. Please include the name of the beer, brewer's name, the style of beer (BJCP 2004 Guidelines will be used for classification) and if it is All Grain, Partial Mash, or Extract. To read BSM format, you will need BeerSmith.

Thanks to Darren Robinson, who has created a nice Visual Basic script to convert Promash text recipe files to BeerXML format for use with BeerXML compatible programs. You can download the script and find out more on this here.


Light Lager
Lite American Lager (1)
Standard American Lager (1)
Premium American Lager (1)
Munich Helles (1)
Dortmunder Export (2)

Pilsner
German Pilsner - Pils (3)
Bohemian Pilsener (1)
Classic American Pilsner (1)

European Amber Lager
Vienna Lager (2)
Oktoberfest/Märzen (1)

Dark Lager
Dark American Lager (1)
Munich Dunkel (1)
Schwarzbier (2)

Bock
Maibock/Helles Bock (1)
Traditional Bock (1)
Doppelbock (2)
Eisbock (1)

Light Hybrid Beer
Cream Ale (6)
Blonde Ale (4)
Kölsch (1)
American Wheat or Rye Beer (3)

Amber Hybrid Beer
North German Altbier (3)
California Common Beer (9)
Düsseldorf Altbier (2)

English Pale Ale
Standard/Ordinary Bitter (7)
Special/Best/Premium Bitter (4)
Extra Special/Strong Bitter - English Pale Ale (12)

Scottish and Irish Ale
Scottish Light (0)
Scottish Heavy (0)
Scottish Export (4)
Irish Red Ale (3)
Strong Scotch Ale (1)

American Ale
American Pale Ale (18)
American Amber Ale (9)
American Brown Ale (8)

English Brown Ale
Mild (2)
Southern English Brown Ale (1)
Northern English Brown Ale (5)

Porter
Brown Porter (6)
Robust Porter (5)
Baltic Porter (1)

Stout
Dry Stout (3)
Sweet Stout (3)
Oatmeal Stout (3)
Foreign Extra Stout (1)
American Stout (0)
Imperial Stout (3)

India Pale Ale (IPA)
English IPA (1)
American IPA (19)
Imperial IPA (2)

German Wheat and Rye Beer
Weizen/Weissbier (5)
Dunkelweizen (0)
Weizenbock (1)
Roggenbier - German Rye Beer (0)

Belgian and French Ale
Witbier (4)
Belgian Pale Ale (2)
Saison (2)
Bière de Garde (1)
Belgian Specialty Ale (2)

Sour Ale
Berliner Weisse (0)
Flanders Red Ale (0)
Flanders Brown Ale/Oud Bruin (0)
Straight - Unblended Lambic (0)
Gueuze (0)
Fruit Lambic (0)

Belgian Strong Ale
Belgian Blond Ale (0)
Belgian Dubbel (1)
Belgian Tripel (2)
Belgian Golden Strong Ale (2)
Belgian Dark Strong Ale (2)

Strong Ale
Old Ale (5)
English Barleywine (2)
American Barleywine (2)

Fruit Beer
Fruit Beer (3)

Spice/Herb/Vegetable Beer
Spice, Herb, or Vegetable Beer (1)
Christmas/Winter Specialty Spiced Beer (8)

Smoke-Flavored and Wood-Aged Beer
Classic Rauchbier (0)
Other Smoked Beer (0)
Wood-Aged Beer (0)

Specialty Beer
Specialty Beer (8)

Traditional Mead
Dry Mead Varies (1)
Semi-Sweet Mead (0)
Sweet Mead Varies (0)

Melomel (Fruit Mead)
Cyser - Apple Melomel (0)
Pyment - Grape Melomel (0)
Other Fruit Melomel (0)

Other Mead
Metheglin (0)
Braggot (0)
Open Category Mead (0)

Standard Cider and Perry
Common Cider (0)
English Cider (0)
French Cider (0)
Common Perry (0)
Traditional Perry (0)

Specialty Cider and Perry
New England Cider (0)
Fruit Cider (0)
Apple Wine (0)
Other Specialty Cider or Perry (1)