Due to Noah's request, I am beginning with this batch, to post my recipes in the messages area below each post. Let me know how it turns out, if you brew a batch yourself, and please save me a bottle!
MT
Saturday, May 8, 2010
batch #103 - Heather Ale
Due to Noah's request, I am beginning with this batch, to post my recipes in the messages area below each post. Let me know how it turns out, if you brew a batch yourself, and please save me a bottle!
MT
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Yum! I look forward to tasting it around mid-June... :)
ReplyDeleteHey MT, when you think you might start posting brew recipes alongside yer brews? I'd love to start homewbrewing shortly, and I know you've got that lil' book of batches...
ReplyDeleteI'd be a weekly visitor if such a thing started occurring, I'll tell ya that right now!
-Noah
Okay, okay, here's my recipe for this batch of "Heather Ale", a ten-gallon, all-grain brew:
ReplyDeleteGrain:
24# Pilsen Malted Barley;
3# Crystal #80 Malted Barley;
1# Dark Munich Malted Barley;
All grains crushed medium, mashed in 7-gallons of 148-degree water for 60-minutes (water starts out at 160, falls to 148 w/ grain)
Mash-out with 160-degree.F water, until we have 12.5 - 13 gallons of wort in 15-gal. brewpot, and bring to a boil before adding hops;
Hops:
4-oz (dry) of Cascade leaf hops (60 minutes);
4-oz (wet, frozen fresh) Rock Bottom Hops (local - last 20-minutes of boil);
4-oz Heather Flower tips (dried - last 20-minutes of boil);
1-tsp. Yeast Nutrient (last 20-minutes of boil);
Yeast: White Labs Super-high gravity Yeast #WLP-099
Starting Gravity:
1.064
Finishing Gravity:
0.098
9.0% abv