These are some of the favorites based on my wife, neighbors and brew club. These are all 5 gallon recipes, note some are extract, extract with grain or all grain. All hops are pellet. AAU = alpha acid units

    AAU = wt(oz) x alpha acid percent       Weight = AAU / percent

Chocolate Raspberry Stout (extract with grain) courtesy of Jim Wagner

OG around 1.047 – 49     FG 1.014    SRM:35  ABV:3.5%  IBU about 24

Ingredients:

•  6.6 lbs syrup  (unhopped) 
   ½ lb roasted barley
   ½ lb caramunich 72L
   ¼ lb black malt
   1 oz Kent Goldings hops (5.5% alpha) at 60-min boil
•  4-oz +/-  chocolate raspberry coffee beans (27 oz. Water to 3.5 oz coffee) make a strong coffee brew
• 4 oz raspberry extract if the coffee doesn't give enough flavor for your taste
• White Labs WLP001 yeast

1. Brew a strong ½ pot (or so) of coffee using 2 pot packages (2 oz    ea?), set aside. {One pot is 8 – 10 six ounce cups (48 – 60 oz) per 1.75 oz coffee} so if two pots equals 96 – 120 ounces water for 3.5 oz coffee , then let’s say 27 fl. oz water to 3.5 oz coffee. Adjust to taste for future. Or add 4 oz of raspberry extract.

2. Steep grains in hop bag 20 – 30 minutes at 150 – 155°.
3. Remove grains and bring to a boil.
4. Remove from heat and add extract syrup stirring well.
5. Return to heat and bring to a boil.

6. Add hops.
7. Boil for 60 minutes.
8. Put coffee into wort after boil but before cooling.
9. Combine wort with water to make five gallons if not doing a full boil.
10. Aerate well before pitching yeast around 70°.

11. If using one step fermentation, allow to sit in the fermenter at 65-70° for about 7 days, then using a sanitized hydrometer to ensure that the beer has reached its final gravity.
12. If using two step fermentation, rack to a secondary fermenter (glass carboy) after 5 days and allow to sit for another 10-14 days before bottling.

13. Bottle or keg:
14. When priming, dissolve corn sugar or dry malt extract in two pints of boiling water for 15 minutes. Pour this mixture into the empty bottling bucket and siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. This method ensures that the priming sugar will disperse evenly through your beer.
15. For proper carbonation, store your beer at 75 for at least the first week after bottling. This will allow the yeast to feed on the priming sugar and produce the necessary carbon dioxide needed for carbonation. It's ready to drink, but it will improve if you age your beer another two to three weeks.

Rudolph's Revenge Spiced Ale (extract with grain), from Maryland Homebrew site.                    

OG: 1.049      FG: 1.010      ABV: 4.7%
Ingredients:
1 3.3 lb. can John Bull plain light malt extract
2 lbs. light dried malt extract
1 lb. honey
2 oz's Cascade hop pellets (5.3% alpha acid)
1 oz. Saaz hop pellets (3.8% alpha acid)
1 six-inch stick of cinnamon
1 medium whole orange
6 whole cloves
White Labs 001 California Ale liquid yeast or similar
3/4c corn sugar for priming if not force carbonating

Directions:
1. Steep grains in hop bag in 1.5 gallons of water at 155 degrees for 30 minutes.
Remove grains.
2. Add malt extracts and bring to a boil. Add Cascade hops and boil for 45 minutes.
3. Add cinnamon stick (in a hop bag) and honey and continue boil for 10 minutes.
4. Add Saaz hops during the last two minutes of the boil.
5. Prepare your orange and cloves by squashing the unpeeled orange until it is soft inside.
Poke the peel with a sharp fork to put several holes through the peel. Take six cloves and insert into some of the holes.
6. Turn off the heat and toss your prepared orange into the wort. Let it steep 15-20
minutes. Remove the orange and cinnamon.
7. Combine wort with water to make five gallons.
8. Pitch yeast when wort temperature is between 70-80 degrees.
9. If using one step fermentation, allow to sit in the fermenter at 65-70 degrees for about  7 days, then use a sanitized hydrometer to ensure that the beer has reached its final gravity. If using two step fermentation, rack to a secondary fermenter (glass carboy) after 5 days and allow to sit for another 10-14 days before bottling.
10. Prime and bottle. When priming, dissolve corn sugar or dry malt extract in two pints of
boiling water for 15 minutes. Pour this mixture into the empty bottling bucket and siphon the beer from the fermenter over it. This method ensures that the priming sugar will disperse evenly through your beer.
11. For proper carbonation, store your beer at 75 degrees for at least the first week after bottling. This will allow the yeast to feed on the priming sugar and produce the necessary carbon dioxide needed for carbonation. It’s ready to drink, but it will improve if you age your beer another two to three weeks.

Baltic Porter

Moosehead Clone (North American Clonebrews, Russell)

OG: 1.045 FG: 1.010 IBUs: 30 ABV%: 4.5% 5 gallon  60 minute

Yeast: American Lager

Hops: 4 AAU Tettnang 60 minutes
            3 AAU Tettnang 30 minutes
            3 AAU Hallertau 30 minutes

Procedure:
 Bring 1 ¾ gallons water to 152 degrees and steep grains for 90 minutes.
 Sparge with 2 ½ gallons water.
 Add extract
 Bring to a boil then add 4 AAU Tettnang hops, boil 30 minutes.
 Add 3 AAU Tettnang and 3AAU Hallertau hops and boil another 30 minutes
 Cool, top off to 5 ¼ gallons with pre boiled water, pitch yeast
 Primary 2 weeks at 50 degrees
 Secondary 5 – 6 weeks at 35 degrees
 Bottle and age 6 weeks at 45 degrees

•   For all grain versions use 6-lb. lager malt and skip the extract

               Mash lager, maize and carapils malts in 2 1/2 gallons at 152 degrees
               Sparge with 3 gallons
               Proceed as above with boil and hop additions

Mild Jalapeno Pepper beer

(2nd place of 16, AHA first round 2007, 1st place second round AHA National 2007, 2nd place TRASH & BUZZ OFF) (BYO 10-04 Wee Little Hottie)