What information is found in a recipe for home brewed beer?
Since the question is listed in the HOMEBREWING category, I will
asuume it's a beer recipe. A beer recipe contains pretty much the
same thing as any recipe for cooking or baking: ingredients,
amounts, and the procedure for combining them. It may have other
data, such as specific gravity, alcohol content, amount of
bitterness, etc. Here's a typical beer recipe for making an Irish
Red Ale:
http://www.brew-monkey.com/recipes/html/bigheadirishred.htm