Into the Brew Pot

A brewing journal and some recipes. Most of these recipes use extract with steeped grains, but a couple are mini-mash recipes that mash a few pounds of grains. Unless stated otherwise, I boil bittering hops for an hour, flavoring hops for 15 minutes, and aroma hops for a minute or less. I use whole-flower hops, unless otherwise stated. I always use either 1 oz. of Irish moss, or a Whirfloc tablet as a clarifying agent, added during the last 15 minutes of the boil.

April 07, 2006

Best Bitter

I was shooting for an ESB and came up short on the original gravity. This was still a pretty good beer though.

Grain bill (steeped for 30 min at 155 F)
4 oz Carapils
4 oz Belgian aromatic (20°L)
1 oz Peat smoked malt (phenol 17.4%)

Extract/fermentables
6 lb Maris Otter LME
1 lb Dark DME

Hop schedule

Bittering2.5 oz Fuggles (4%AA)
Flavoring2 oz Cascade (5.7%AA)

Adjuncts
1 tsp Gypsum

Yeast
White Labs WL007 Dry English Ale

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posted by Jae @ 10:39 AM