Friday, June 29, 2007

Batch 47, Irish Death

Nick picked this recipe out of a book I have. I didn't have the ingredients, so I improvised. This won at a club competition for "Imperial Anything". Entry in the contest was anything with ABV of 10% or better, this came in at 11.3%.

5 gallon batch.

Grain:

15 lbs 2-row
7.5 lbs wheat
0.75 lbs Crystal 10
0.5 lbs Black Patent
0.5 lbs Chocolate malt
Mash at 152F for 60 minutes, collect 6.5 gallons.

Hops, 90 minute boil:

1.0 oz Nugget, 60 minutes
0.5 oz Mt Hood, 30 minutes
1.0 oz Mt Hood, 10 minutes
0.5 oz Cascade, flame out
1.0 oz Columbus, flame out

Stir in 3/4 cup Molasses at flame out.

Wyeast 1272 from batch 43.

OG: 1.105
FG: 1.020
ABV: 11.3%

Fermented 2 weeks in a plastic bucket, then transfered to a corny keg. Stored at 66F until May 22, 2008, then put in refrigerator with CO2 at 10 lbs. Strong, tasty beer.

Thursday, June 7, 2007

Batch 46, Pale Ale

This is a real simple pale ale recipe, nothing fancy, but really good.

10 gallon batch.

Grain:

16.5 lbs 2-row
1.5 lbs Crystal 40
1.0 lbs Wheat

Hops:

1.0 oz Nugget, 60 minutes
2.0 oz Mt Hood, 15 minutes
2.0 oz Cascade 15 minutes

Wyeast 1272 from batch 43

Apparently I forgot to get gravities on this, but it looks like OG should have been about 1.050.