Thursday, December 3, 2009  What sort of recipe do you brew most
often?  Your own - 51% Someone's recipe w/ minor tweaks - 29%
Original recipe from a book/internet - 9% Homebrew shop kit - 5%
Clone recipe - 2% Recipe from someone you know 0%  In my mind
there is a continuum when it comes to how people
design recipes.  Almost everyone start out brewing recipes and
kits to the letter, this takes the lowest amount involvement and
can make some very tasty beers.  After that most people begin to
make subtle tweaks, changing a finishing hop, or swapping base
malts, relatively minor changes, but it allows you to feel some
control and ownership over a batch.  After that some people
start synthesizing recipes by combining the grain/hop/yeast
bills from multiple recipes to craft something that gives what
they are looking for.  Finally there are those that start with
an idea (original or not) and build a recipe based on general
concepts and specific ingredient preferences that they have
learned from experience and resea