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Thursday, 27 November 2008 |
Add ~2.5 Gal filtered water in pot with:
- 1lb 80L Chrystal Malt
- .5lb Chocolate
- .5lb Black Patent
- .5lb roasted barley
and bring to a boil. Then add:
- 1oz plug Northern Brewer boiling hops
- 1oz pellet Fuggle
- 1oz pellet Challenger
After boiling for 50 min., add:
- a pinch of Irish Moss
- 2oz Cascade finishing hops
- 9lbs light DME (it took over 15 min to add this and bring back to a boil, maybe next time use liquid malt extract)
Boiled for 10 minutes, shut off heat, strained some of the hops.
Took pot to sink with cold water bath with 2 blue ice packets. Kept draining off the top of the bath as it heated and ran more ran cold water for about 1/2 hour. Added ~2.5 gal of filtered water to carboy and siphoned in about two thirds of the wort. Then poured the rest in through a filter/funnel. Pitched yeast at about 78 degrees.
Wort was overflowing with foam the next morning so I setup an overflow tube into a jar partially filled with water (air trap) and wrapped a rag around the top of the carboy. Bubbling slowed down to every three seconds by the fourth morning.
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Sunday, 23 September 2007 |
- 8 lbs, pale malt extract
- 1lb, 60L crystal malt
- 1/2 lb, Carapils
- 1oz, Fuggles hops (boil 60 min)
- 1oz, Fuggles finish hops (5 min)
- CA Ale Yeast
- 1tsp gypsun
- Iris moss
fermented for probably close to 2 weeks and bottled. Turned out good. Next time will need to stir the priming sugar when wort added as the carbonation was not consistent between bottles. |
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Friday, 09 November 2007 |
6 lbs dark malt extract
1/2 lb flaked barley
1 lb roasted barley 300L
.5 lb Crystal 120L
.5 lb Black Patent
2 ox Sterling (whole leaf) 60 min
1/2 oz Northern Brewer (pellet) 30 min
1/2 oz Norther Brewer (pellet) 10 min
1/2 tsp Irish Moss
Irish Ale Yeast
3/4 cup corn sugar prime
Steep grains in 1.5gal water at 165 for 45 min. Sparge w/ 2 gals warm water. Bring to boil, come off heat and add extract and malt, kent Golding hps and Iris Moss. Bil 60 min, add hops on schedule. Cool wort and add 2 - 3 gals of cool water in primary fermenter. Pitch yeast at < 80degrees. Rack to secondary after 2-3 weeks.
I didn't do exactly this. I steeped at a higher temp for about .5hr and then added the rest. I also didn't rack.
Good nose, starts good but finished kinda flat. Did get specific gravity. Next time, pour a little of the cooled wort into a tall glass before into carboy to test sp.
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