Recipe:
Steep 45 Minutes @ 150 Degrees -
.75# Castle 2-row malt
1.25# British crystal malt (55L)
.25# Chocolate malt
Boil 90 Minutes:
1# Breiss sparkling amber DME
7# Pale LME
.75oz Cascade hops (5.9%)
.5oz Mt. Hood hops (5.2%)
1 oz UK Goldings hops (5.0% ) at flame out. These were plugs, not pellets.
Wyeast 1098 English Ale (2 qt starter)
OG: 1070
Target FG: 1018
I have big plans for this big beer, but the brew session ended on a bad note. I tried using a big paint strainer to strain the wort as I poured it into the primary bucket. This is so I could boil all the hops loose instead of containing them in bags as I do normally. I think it would have worked except the plug hops stay very leafy and they clogged up the strainer. I ended up having to wring it out by hand - not good. Made a big mess too.
8/28: 1023 (secondary)
Beer smells good. Tastes good, sweet/malty.
9/16: 1023 (Keg)
All good. Still sweet/malty.
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I have never tried to brew my own ale and my husband doesn't seem interested either. We do drink a fair bit of ale and it goes very nice with a few choice cheeses.
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