Thursday, June 25, 2009

Recipe of the Day!




I know you have been anxiously awaiting the first real recipe for your homebrew kit that you started. This is a pale ale that has a hoppy floral bite and refreshing finish for those hot summer days.

Franki's Pale Ale
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Brewer: North Idaho Ramblings
Style: American IPA
Batch: 5.00 galExtract

Characteristics
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Recipe Gravity: 1.060 OG
Recipe Bitterness: 64 IBU
Recipe Color: 33° SRM
Estimated FG: 1.015
Alcohol by Volume: 5.8%
Alcohol by Weight: 4.6%

Ingredients
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Amber D.M.E. 6.00 lb, Extract, Extract
Crystal 80L 1.00 lb, Grain, Steeped
Roasted barley 1.00 lb, Grain, Steeped

Centennial 0.75 oz, Whole, 5 minutes
Northern Brewer 2.00 oz, Whole, 60 minutes

Gypsum 2.00 unit, Additive, 2 Tsp. Gypsum added to boil
London Ale yeast 1.00 unit, Yeast, Liquid Yeast

Notes
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Recipe Notes:
*Toast malted barley (Great Western 2 Row) for 10 min. at 350 degrees.

*Add cracked crystal malt and toasted malt to 1.5 gal. cold water. Bring to 160 degrees and hold for 20 min.

*Strain and sparge grain with hot water.

*To boiling wort add:
Dry Malt Extract (DME), Northern Brewer Hops, and Gypsum. Boil for 60 min.

*Add Centennial hops last 5 min.

*Strain wort and sparge into 2 Gal. cold water and top off carboy.

*Allow wort to cool and pitch yeast, attach blowoff tube.

*After initial fermentation subsides (2-4 days) attach fermentation lock
and allow to fully ferment.

*Bottle with priming sugar for carbonation and Enjoy!


As with all posts comments are more than welcome. I like to know how these turn out for other people.

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